Saturday, August 31, 2013
August Updates
8/31 - Landon had his first baseball tournament today. We were playing 2 and 3 seeds. Our team had tough time and it was over 100 degrees. Landon made a few good plays, got few hits, but didn't seem to into it. Not sure if it was the heat or something else.
Grammy, Gramps & Grandma were there for the games as well. We all stuck it out. Kasey and Grandma got snow cones to try and cool down some. Kasey really liked that.
Afterwards, we came home and headed to the pool after a hot day of baseball. We just went for a little while because Kssey was losing it.
We came home to shower, get some dinner and then to watch some Aggie football. We watched the first 1/2 as a family which was fun.
8/30 - What an evening. Greg was getting ready to make hamburgers at home (Yum) and I was getting home from work doing something in my closet while kids were getting showers. As I was coming out of my closet I tripped on some clothes at the door. I fell out of the room onto my counter and bumped my foot into hard trashcan right there. I didn't think to much of it, but then I looked down at my foot. My left pinky toe was pointing left which isn't normal. So I called to Greg.
It didn't hurt that bad, but I was getting a little light headed. Greg called his mom (who used to be a nurse). She came up to get kits dinner and in bed. Greg took me to the emergency room (based on recommendation from facebook friends to do that instead of Care Now). We took a bunch of stuff in case we were there for a while.
We got there, checked in. Then they did assessment, the lady couldn't seem to see which toe or what issue was. She also asked me in front of Greg if there was any abuse at home. Obviously there isn't, but not really a valid question if you are asking in front of the person that would likely be doing that. Same lady was asking if my ankle was ok - I said no it's just my toe.
We got to the room and nurse came in - similar thing, which toe is it. Really it was pretty obvious. I went to get Xrays, and then finally the PA came in. She saw right away what the issue was. She wanted it to be dislocated so she could pull it back in place. She came in a little later to say it was broken. We needed to tape it up and I needed to go to Pediatrist next week. The PA said it was broken almost all the way through (it was my left pinkie toe). I asked her why it wasn't hurting more if it was broken. She didn't know. They brought me a shoe to wear.
Greg and I joked it was date night. Football on TV. I was working on PTA stuff and Greg was playing Candy Crush :)
We went home to have our hamburgers and watch some football.
8/29 - Landon lost his 5th tooth today. It had been loose and the permanent tooth was already coming in behind it. He had just lost it and I called home to say traffic was bad. Good timing.
He got a coin dollar again and seemed pretty happen with that. Although he joked that night that maybe he would bet $100 for it. Luckily he retracted that himself :)
8/25 - We had pretty lazy morning. I went to get some Sonic breakfast, and then kids and I watched Star Wars IV. Landon asked to see it and who am I to deny the boy Star Wars. He had seen that one before but liked it. We finally got up after that to go eat some lunch.
We are hanging this afternoon getting some stuff done and kids are playing xbox on hot last day of summer.
8/24 - We had pretty relaxing day. I got up to go work out, then met Greg and the kids at the park for some baseball/softball practice. We all got showered and ready and headed to lunch. We then went to Target and got way more than what we went in for... We went to Elkas which we haven't been to in a little while. Greg and the kids went to a fun birthday party in the afternoon while I did ton of laundry and cleaned up at the house - Yea!
Greg went to dinner and FC Dallas game with Doug so kids and I went to Kelly's for dinner. We sat on the patio. Even though it was hot outside they had it covered with fans so it wasn't bad. There was a rain cloud close by and we could smell the rain from the patio. We had good dinner. Then we headed home, kids got ready for bed while I put up even more clothes and then we watched a little bit of the Cowboy game before bed.
I ended up working that evening and watching Crazy, Stupid Love which is a cute movie.
8/23 - After work I got to go to dinner with some old friends that I used to work with. It was fun to catch up and see everyone. I am the only one still working at TI.
8/18 - Greg gave Kasey one of my old phones with buttons. She loves it. It got taken away because she wasn't listening. She was crushed. Oh so early to be so dependent on a phone.
We went to moms for lunch and play time. We had tacos - yum!!! Kids had fun playing and entertaining all of us. Kasey was showing her imagination and Landon had fun changing up and playing with a plane with track. Kasey was pretending she had a house which she gave us keys for to come in. We had to text her before we came over. We had good food again, and fun chatting. Good times spending time with family!
On the way home Kasey and I were texting each other from her fake phone. We had to say the beep then tell each other what the message said, but it was funny!
Then we went to neighbors for pool birthday party which was fun as well.
8/17 - Landon had cub scout meeting. It was at our neighbors house and the boys got to do swimming for belt loops. The boys had fun and Kasey got to go play as well which was fun.
That night we went Solis' house with lots of Zorbas to talk about World Cup plans. Greg will do some planning when it's sports related :)
8/16 - Aunt Mary was in town. She got to see Kasey at her swim lessons, and then she came with my parents to our house for dinner. Greg made chicken enchiladas, I made brussel sprouts and guacamole. We had some good wine, fun discussions and great food. Grammy made Hershey bar pie and yummy cobbler with cherries and pineapple.
After dinner we watched some videos of the kids - Kasey dancing, Landon a little soccer and baseball, and little Kasey playing softball. We had a good time.
I then went to friends house to watch Mamma Mia which is always fun.
8/10 - We headed home today. We got up and headed to Kings Beach for breakfast. We had to wait a little while, but it was worth it. Yum! Then we headed back to get packed up and hang out a bit. We checked out and went to hang out in the village for a little bit. Kids were running around some which was good since they would be sitting on a plane for 3 hours. We headed to the airport, ate some lunch, and then went to get on plane. Kids were excited but tired. Grammy and Gramps brought our car to the airport. They got to hear the kids story from the trip while Greg got luggage. Kids got to bed after 9 Dallas time which ended up being about the time they had been going to bed California time. Of course one of the smoke detectors was beeping when we got home. We had a great time, but it's good to be home and sleep in our own beds.
8/9 - After some breakfast and bunco at the condo we decided to head out and go Geocaching for the first time. We got GPS, a map and gondola tickets and we were off. Unfortunately it took us about 2 hours (including stopping to eat lunch we brought) to find our first treasure. After that we found another 8 treasures in a little over an 2 hours and kids had a great time finding them, holding the GPS and then taking a trinket and leaving a trinket. We also picked up trash along the way to clean up. Kasey told us over and over how she found the treasures she found (even though we usually saw them first, she was so excited when we let her speak up that she found it first). Other than stopping for lunch and a break for ice cream and a drink we pretty much walked/hiked from 11-3.
When we got back to the village we decided to play putt putt for the new set up they had. It was a little strange, but kids liked it. As we finished the course it was just after the new Planes movie had started that was right there. We decided to relax some and go see the flick.
After the movie we headed to restaurant in the village for dinner. Somehow the kids still had quite a bit of energy. I think we all had a fun day, but we were all pretty tired.
8/8 - we had a fun day today. The kids loved floating down the river so we did it again. It was cooler today so we were thinking we'd not get in the water, but that didn't last. The kids decided they wanted to stop and get in the water. They ended up walking down the shore, going in the water and letting the river float them down to us.
Landon helped Kasey do this too and they had a great time. They both helped rowing the boat. We go to feed ducks - it was funny to watch them come to the boat. Some of them would fly in to get to the boat. We got tshirts for all of us since we had so much fun floating the river. We had lunch and little place at the bus drop of which was good.
Then we headed to the beach for a little while. We went to a beach we had not seen before which had several rocks on beach, but was still nice. The kids went straight for the water. They built a volcano on the beach. Both kids were swimming like fish in the water. Greg and i commented that we would never have let Landon swim on his own when he was 4, but Kasey was doing great.
It is Thursday so we planned on going to Truckee Thursday. We went back to the condo showered and got ready. Kids were pretty tired. Truckee Thursday is a small down event where they have food, music, crafts and products to sell. We had some good food, good pies and chocolate covered pineapple (Kasey's choice) for dessert. Kids were pretty tired, Kasey threw a fit on the way out, so we came home to get kids to bed.
8/7 - We had a lazy morning this morning. Had some breakfast and decided to go for a little hike right by our condo. The kids had fun climbing rocks, being kind of the world, finding lizards and big pine cones. They had a good time. Then we got ready and headed to Kings Beach.
We had lunch at Char Pit - little burger place. Then we went to do some putt putt. We went 38 holes which Landon loved it. Kasey was getting little tired by the end.
Then we headed to the beach for a little while. Kids went straight in the water which is pretty chilly but they still wanted to go out in the water and play in the waves (which are much smaller than we had in Florida last year). When kids got out of the water they started playing in the sand building volcanoes and other stuff. they were having a good time.
We went to clean sand off our feet. Kasey helped Greg buckle his sandals. He said are you paying me back for all the times I helped you with your shoes. Kasey then said that will be $16 please.
We decided we were just going to eat dinner in. We went to store to get a few things. Got back to condo, opened the wine, everyone got showers then Greg and Kasey cooked steaks on the grill, Kasey helped me make salad, Landon set the table and we all had special drinks in wine glasses - Kasey and Landon go flavored milk and Greg and I got some wine. We had good dinner.
After dinner we played some bunco. Always fun for us to play together. I guess the kids have seen a little Caesars pizza commercial because Kasey kept saying Pizza Pizza. Landon, Kasey and I had 3 way tie (I think I won because 2 of my wins were buncos :)). We were using Landon's blue elephant as the pink dice and were teasing him that he needed to win in back from Kasey to get to sleep with it.
Good times!
8/6 - We had another fun day in Tahoe. We got up had kind of lazy morning, then we got ready to go rafting. We went down Truckee river - about 5 miles and took us about 2 - 2 1/2 hours to go down. That included stopping to eat lunch we brought and letting the kids out a few times to play. The water was pretty cool, but was still fun. Of course the kids wanted to help paddle. There were a few areas of small rapids, which the kids really enjoyed. They both thought it was awesome and had fun. We all had a good time.
Then they bused us back to the car. We got picture of the 4 of us, and decided we wanted some ice cream as a snack.
Then we headed by grocery store for few things, We headed back to drop some things off and went to the pool for a little while. Of course the kids wanted to go between the huge Jacuzzi and the pool. Then we headed back for all of us to shower so we could go to dinner. We went to Jasons at Kings beach which was really good. We are all pretty tired, but had a good day.
8/5 - Of course kids got up about 6am. I actually got to sleep until about 6:45 (after going to bed about 10:40) which is quite a bit of time for me. Greg made us french toast which was good. Of course Kasey complained as she has been doing round food.
We got ready to go and headed to the mountain for some hiking. Kasey wasn't to sure. The first gondola we went on was enclosed so it was fun for everyone. the second one was open and basically a bench to sent on. Kasey was pretty scared, asked me to make sure I was holding her, but then later she was excited about goin back down on it. We had to go in enclosed things back on both sections.
We went hiking for about 20-30 minutes and then kids were pretty ready to go back. We walked back and had some lunch at mid mountain. Then we headed down.
In village Greg got some shoes, and Landon decided he wanted to play ultimate Frisbee. Of course Greg wanted to play too. Kasey on the the other had was tellking me all about her kids - there are 3. 16, 7, and preschooler. Their names are Greg, Landon and LK. she's pretty funny and will tell you all kinds of details about them.
We spent the afternoon on boat on lake Tahoe. We went on cruise. Kids were a little restless at first, but both ended up having fun. They got drinks on the boat, and Landon got to drive the boat at the end. Kasey says she didn't have fun becuase she was the only one who had to wear life vest. She would have been ok, but we wanted to make sure.
Then we went to dinner nearby at place that a friend recommended to me. Great view, good food and nice atmosphere. What more can you ask for.
We were all pretty tired at the end of the day.
8/4 - We flew out today for our family vacation. We headed to Reno/Lake Tahoe. Flights were pretty good. kids got to watch movie along the way. Funny to see the kids not have patience. I have grown to have patience with traveling because I have been so many times.
Once we got to Reno, we picked up car (they wanted to give us a Ford Taurus instead of SUV we paid for. We ended up with an explorer which worked out just fine. We headed to place we are staying. Landon asked if they could play on ipads in the car. We told the kids to enjoy the scenery and no ipads. We don't have mountains in Texas, and its cool to see the river and old tracks they have on the drive.
We were sort of trying to stay on Dallas time. So we went to Safeway for groceries, walked on lake beach for few minutes and headed to cabin we are staying in. Kasey started out saying she wanted to go home then got excited about our car and even the place we were staying. There are many steps to go up and we were all carrying stuff up.
We decided to have a dinner near by and try to get kids to bed earlier. We went to local pizza place which was good. Tried to get kids in bed early, but they didn't go to sleep until 7:30ish. Greg and I stayed up chilling and watching movie.
8/1 - Been bit crazy. Landon is 7 and we're already seeing drama with sports. His team he played on in the spring doesn't play in the fall, but he wanted to play baseball. Landon tried out for 3 teams that were all more competitive than what he has been playing. We made decision to put him in club team called Fury. The team is based out of Wylie so its a bit of drive for practice, but we think that longer term this is the right fit for Landon and us. Hopefully it will work out well. He'll play in 5 tournaments this fall which of course several of them conflict with A&M football so we'll have to figure out how to handle that....
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