October Updates

10/31 - Fun Halloween.  Kasey was a red Princess, Landon was Johnny football and got to borrow hockey shoulder pads which was great.  Greg got pizza from Durkins and we met up with neighbors for dinner and drinks before pictures and trick or treating.    In past years we've gone around our block and that was great.  This year with kids getting older.  They ran from house to house.  Of course I was in heels and a dress because I didn't have time to change.  They went around our block and a little extra cul-de-sac.   Then we decided to keep going for a little while.   Kasey got to see her teacher who lives right by us, and few other kids have teacher in neighborhood so we went by their houses.  Then headed home.  Buckets full, wired from just few pieces of candy, but good times.

10/30 - I had kids try on Halloween costumes because I knew I'd be coming home straight from work for dinner with neighbors and trick or treating.  Kasey loved her princess costumer - We bought it to be ladybug girl, could have been a fairy, but she wanted it to be a princess.
Landon was Johnny Football.

10/28 - Busy day.  Worked from home in morning, shot video in Kasey's room all afternoon, helped Landon finish his pumpkin character project, made princess pumpkin with Kasey!

10/26 - Early A&M game so we had to get up and shower.  We grabbed some Shipley's for breakfast and went to our parking spot.  We met Dave and Tracy at  Tex Ags tailgate.  We had few drinks and got to see the studio they have there.  We took a picture since it is Doug's Birthday.

We started walking to Aggieland outfitters and saw some friends along the way.   Doug tried on maroon blazer as a funny.

We headed to the game.  Many people were late for this game for some reason.  Aggies started game well, had horrible 2nd quarter, then put it away in 3rd and 4th.  We will take the win!

10/25 - We decided to go down to College Station without the kids.  Greg took Kids and Patch to grandparents, got Doug and came to pick me up at work.  We drove down to College Station.  We went straight to Wings and More for a late dinner.  We headed to Northgate for some drinks.  We went to Duddleys and had some beer.  We headed back to the house about midnight.

10/20 - Kids and I went to the State Fair and to see Lion King with my mom today.  We had a blast.  We met and rode the train to the fair which worked out great.  We went in and had corny dogs, nachos and pictures with Tex to start it out.

Then we took the gondola ride from front of Midway to the back which was fun.  Landon and I went on fun roller coaster.  Landon wasn't to thrilled about it, I think he told Kasey afterwards that it wasn't that fun. Kasey really wanted to go on that one, but she wasn't tall enough.  She wasn't happy. Kids rode a few rides after that.  Kasey loved the roller coasters.  All 4 of us rode big Bear ride like tea cups.  It was fun, but we got dizzy.  Made me think of riding those rides as a kid.

Then we went to play some games.   Kids played balloon popping game and both won - I so remember doing that at Circus Circus.   Then we went to play the big water shooting game.   Kasey and I won and because several people were playing she got a pretty big stuffed animal.  She picked a bull dog :)  She was so excited.  We couldn't get a bigger one for Landon to win, but he won a few smaller ones.

Then we decided to eat a little.  Kids wanted ice cream so we sat and listened to some singers singing 80s music while kids made a mess with Ice Cream.   We all shared fried S'mores.  Then we had fried king ranch casserole and funnel cake - yum.

then it was time to head to the lion king which is awesome.  Landon really liked it, but Kasey lost interest pretty fast and asked me questions during the whole thing :)

Over all it was a great day.  The weather was perfect!

10/19 - We had to get up pretty early for a Saturday.  Alarm came on playing Bennie and the Jets which made me smile.  We got up, all of us got showers, got breakfast and we made lunch to take with us.   Kasey had 10am softball game.  It was a little chilly and Kasey probably needed more clothes on, but she survived.   Girls did pretty well in the morning.

We left immediately after the game.  Went home for use to change, let the dog out and head down to College Station.  We were on the road by 11:20am (A&M game was at 2:30pm).    We got into town, went potty, got snacks at the game, and got into our seats a few minutes before kickoff.  unfortunately the game didn't turn out so well.  We left at the end and headed back home.  We stopped on 2818 for gas and kids changed into their jammies.   Landon said he wasn't sleeping, but I think he was.  Kasey didn't want to go to sleep.

We went to pick Patch up on the way home.  Of course this woke up the kids.  Patch sat in my lap all the way home.

Kids went to bed.  Greg went to bed soon there after, and I had taken a nap in the car and needed to work so I was up til after 1am.

10/18 - We started off crazy weekend going to Landon's fall festival at his school.    All 4 grandparents came.  We started out in the gym with bounce houses for a while then headed to long line to get food.   While waiting in line I took the kids outside to play a few games.   They got to find a prize in hay stack & play ring toss with cowboy hats. They had BBQ this year which was fun.   After eating kids wanted to run around some more.  They had fun outside and at inside games, Got Ritas Ice then went back to the gym for more fun.

10/13 - Landon had a baseball tournament in North McKinney.  Of course his first game was at 8am so we had to get up really early to get out there.  It  was raining most of the day.   Boys didn't win the first game.  We weren't for sure when the 2nd game was.  We came back at 11:45, and then found out our game was at 2pm.   Greg and Landon went to bat some with the team.  Kasey and I hung out in car listening to music and Kasey pretending.

In Landon's 2nd game they didn't win, but they played hard.  They got several outs and several runs as well.  We were pretty excited since the team hasn't won any games or scored many runs

1012 -    Landon's alarm woke him up early so we got started early.   Landon and Greg went to cub scout pond clean up with the Pack.   Kasey had a birthday party to go to, and we weren't getting along to well this morning so Greg took a shower and offered to take her to the party.   That means Landon and I got to have lunch just the two of us.   He choose to go to Pluckers so we could watch some football.   He tried wings, and wasn't to thrilled, but he ate most of 4 of them.   We went to run a few errands and he asked if we could go to Toys r Us to look for legos for Christmas, so we went for a little while.  Of course now the only ones he wants are over $100.   The fun of having older kiddos.
After we all got home Greg and Landon went to watch his friends from school play baseball.   Usually when Greg watched them they don't win, but luckily they won today.

We decided to order pizza and stay in tonight.  The Aggies are on TV, but the kids have to go to bed since Landon has early baseball game in the morning.


10/11 - i went to physical therapy for the first time.   I get to start spending more time out of the boot - yea.  Probably do physical therapy for a few weeks and hopefully be done.

We all went to dinner at Mexigo, and then Kasey and I came home so she could get to bed.  Greg went with Landon, Mason and his dad to Allen Eagles football game.  Of course they got home late, but Landon had fun.


10/7 - Greg took Kasey shopping for some warmer clothes.   When she was trying them on Greg said she kept singing - I'm Sexy and I know it :)    I told Greg that wasn't my fault

10/5 - We were very lazy in the morning.  No aggie football, no kids sports.  We didn't even have breakfast.  We finally got up and got ready then headed to early lunch.  We went to fun little pizza place that makes individual pizzas.  They have one of the new fun drink things that you can get just about any kind of drink you want.

After that we came home and Landon and I headed to the Star Wars event at the library.   They had scavenger hunt, bowling, few other games and crafts to make cool paper bag puppets and finger print art.  We had fun.  Landon brought home a bag for Kasey to make (Princess Leah) and also Leah buns to wear on her head.

After that we went to a friends 4th birthday party.  It was set up like the state fair so there were fun games, snacks, tickets, and prizes.  Kids enjoyed it.  The most of the older kids ended up playing bouncy ball with Greg in the cul-de-sac.  They would bounce the ball back and forth and few times almost lost it or had to keep the kids from running in big street.   Everyone had a good time.
Then we came home, let Patch out and then went to dinner with Steiners and Doug.    We had fun.  Kids got to color, play with Elisabeth, dance, work on Gigem.   Of course they were up later than normal, but had a good time.  We also had some really good food and wine


10/4 - Landon had a friend birthday party so Greg and I took Kasey to Bavarian Grill for dinner.  Kids call it the train place because it has trains going along the ceiling.  They have great pretzel bread and beer and good German food.   Kasey was kind of in a mood, but she did pretty good.  We got home.  Greg got Kasey to bed and I went to pick up Landon at his party.  Got to hang out with some of the moms for little bit which is always fun.