FBLA Districts for Oliver AND Evelyn!

We are in FBLA competition season now and the District Event took place this week at Washburn University in Topeka.  This was Oliver's final Districts and Evelyn's first! I can't believe she is old enough to be competing at FBLA already.  We got super-lucky with her suit as Syd had just gifted us a bunch of clothes, including her Homecoming suit from when she was a candidate.  It just so happened to fit my 7th grader perfectly.  As it turned out, temperatures were below zero that day so she ended up wearing a wear of my black pants with the blazer instead of the skirt.  And we woke up extra-early to get her hair curled.  She looked so beautiful! I mean, PROFESSIONAL.

 

The bus was leaving at 6:40, so these kids were out the door by 6:30.  Violet doesn't usually wake up that early, but she could tell there was stuff happening and she didn't want to miss out!  She insisted on getting right in the middle of the picture.

Ready to go attack the day! (Why does Evelyn look like she's in high school?!? Ughh.)

I asked both kids to send me pics during the day, and this was the solitary picture I received.  So Evelyn wins the gold star.

Thankfully the weekly newsletters from the school had a few more pics for me.  Here's Evie with her Middle School chapter.

And here is my big senior with some of his high school friends.

Both Dwyer kids competed well at Districts, placing in all of their events. This is not new territory for Oliver, so we weren't surprised at how well he did. Evelyn was pretty nervous, though, so we were excited that she even got 3rd in one of her events!  Now we start our preparation for State!