Monday, March 31, 2014

March 2014 updates

3/29 - We had a busy day with 3 sports.    Kasey had her soccer game in the morning - she scored a goal, had an assist, and had a good time.   Then we went to lunch with Grammy, Gramps and Grandma.  We all went to Elke's which is always yummy.    Then we headed to Landon's baseball game -  his first game with the Yankees.   Greg had a hard time putting on shirt and hat, but he did it.  
Landon got a single and a double.  He played short stop, 1st base and center field.  His team won, he said after the game it was fun to win.   Then we had an hour.  Kasey went home with grandma to help finish Nanny's cake.   Landon, Greg, and I went to grab some yogurt then we headed to Landon's soccer game.  Landon was pretty tired, but he played hard.

We came home for quick clean up and headed to dinner with family for Nanny's 92nd birthday celebration.  We went to Red Lobster with Nanny, Grandma, Uncle Buddy and Aunt Jody and Cindy and Carlos.  We had nice dinner then went back to Nanny's for some cake.   Kasey was very excited that she had helped put the icing on top and put the coconut on.

3/26 - kasey did her dance performance for us again tonight.  Smiled the whole time :)   she found one of my old phones and asked if she could have it.  I said yes.  She called it an itouch.  I argued with her that she couldn't call it that since it was my Android phone.  I suggested she call it a phone.  She said, kids have itouches, phones are for adults.   She wins :)

3/23 - Only in Texas can you be outside at a baseball game one day in shorts, tshirt and sweating, and then the next day wearing jeans, long sleeves, jackets and hats to a game.   We went to the baseball game anyway.   Both kids went on the field for War Hymn and the National Anthem.  Landon went to short stop and Kasey went to the pitcher.   We got kids ice cream which was maybe a mistake, but kept Kasey calm for a little bit.   Aggies ended up winning in extra innings.  We left a little early since we were driving back and all of us have to get back to normal schedule tomorrow.

Kasey was really tired and took about a 30 minute nap and woke up much better and ready to see patch.  Patch was very excited to see us.  Scratched Kasey and I pretty good, but she was happy.  I think we were all glad to get home.

3/22 - We got up and all got showers.  We were heading to College Station for the weekend and Grammy was heading home.  We got to College Station and went to Dixie Chicken for some lunch and dominoes.   Then we headed to the baseball game.  A&M was playing Florida.   Landon went on the field for the War Hymn, and National Anthem.   He decided to go to first base and got to meet Aggie player.  Landon was enjoying watching the game.  Kasey just wanted to get ice cream and go to the playground.   Since the stadium is called Blue Bell Park they have several flavors of ice cream.  We got some yum!   It was fun seeing Landon get more into A&M baseball.  A&M won 5 to 4.

Near the end of the game camera caught site on Johnny Manziel in the stadium.   At that time Greg was watching from the playground.  After the game Johnny was signing autographs.  Kasey was so ready to go, but Landon wanted to try and get his autograph.  Greg and Landon waited on side where he was signing.  We figured he'd just stay for a little bit but he was signing a ton of autographs.

Landon was holding down his baseball.  Johnny asked him to throw it to him and he signed it and gave it back.  We were all pretty excited about it.  What a fun experience and cool memory.

3/21 - We again took it a little easy.  After everyone got ready the girls headed to the salon (Mary, mom, Kasey and I), and Greg and Landon went to the park to throw baseball around.
Greg and kids and I went to eat lunch after the salon out on patio overlooking Lake Conroe which was nice.   We headed back for the afternoon to hang out and kids played.  That night we were having Tacos - a family tradition.   We had some fun snacks and took some pictures with cousin Debby and the rest of us.   We enjoyed tacos.  I got to sit with Kasey again at the little table.

Enjoyed the rest of the pecan pie.  Kids wanted to play bowling again on Wii.   Kasey again was calling David old Grandpa, and Cheri Grandma.   At one point she was telling him how to bowl and asked if he had lost his mind.   It was pretty funny.

We had fun visiting that evening before everyone went to bed.   Good to have some family time!

3/20 - We started pretty slow that morning.  It took til after noon for all of us to get showers.   Greg was driving down and we had left overs for lunch which was good.  Kids had fun playing outside, on Wii, and around the house.

That evening we went to Gary and Mariselas to have dinner with them.  We had fun seeing them, having great dinner, and watching the kids play in the spa and pool  Kids haven't gotten to play together for about a year and a half so it was fun for us all to catch up.

Greg had made some desserts that everyone liked.  He made pecan pie - which according to mom and I is the best in the world.  He also made his famous chocolate cake and made it gluten free which was still really good.

3/19 - We had a late brunch at home since we would be on the road over lunch.  Grammy, kids and I set off for Montgomery late that morning.  Greg stayed home another day to recover more.   We got down to Mary's and kids wanted to go outside to see the dogs right away.   We hung out for few hours before David and Cheri got home from work.   Around 5 we got out some snacks, started drinks and then little later had wonderful dinner.  Landon decided he didn't want to sit at the little table anymore so I ended up sitting there all week with Kasey.

That night after dinner kids and David and Cheri played Wii bowling.  Kasey kept calling David Big Boy (which happened to be Cheri's nickname for him so it was really funny to the adults).  Then she started calling him old Grandpa.   She was pretty funny giving him a hard time.  Everyone had a good time!

3/18 - Greg wasn't feeling great again.  I took kids to Grandmas, and then picked them up from Grammy.

When I put Kasey to bed for I think the 2nd time, she called me her hero.   So sweet :)

3/17 - Greg called me at work in the morning that he was getting sick - of course kids were on spring break.  Thankfully my mom was able to take them for the day.  We got to go to dinner the 3 of us.

We picked a Chinese buffet - which afterwards we decided we wouldn't go there again - to much food.

3/16 - Greg and I got to sleep in a little.  We finally got up and got ready.  Ran by to get a quick breakfast on the way to get the kids.    We hurried some because we had tickets to go see Mr Peabody movie.   We got there in time.  The Dowdy's were also at the theater to see the same movie.  Cute movie.

After we got home we cleaned up a little then kids did puzzles.  Landon did a US puzzle so we were quizzing each other on the states.  He did really well and knows most of them.

3/15 - We had another busy Saturday.  I went to work out.  Greg took kids to park to practice some soccer with Kasey.  Then Landon had baseball practice.  I picked Kasey up and took her to lunch.  Then we headed home to get ready for soccer.  I took Kasey to her game - it was chilly and possibly rainy.   Kasey played a pretty good soccer game and scored a goal.  Landon had a game right after that ended up being delayed at least 30 minutes.  Landon played a really good game, and he also scored a goal.  His team came really close to winning, but ended up losing by 1 goal.   


After the games, the  grandparents took the kids home for the night.  Weather was bad so we stayed close to home and went to a new Mexican restaurant - Cafe Del Rio.  A few other families that we knew were there.  We stopped in to say hi as we were  waiting for our table.  It was ok, but we still like Mi Cocina and Mexigo better.   After that we went to a movie.  We weren't home to late, but was nice to be out and hand out together.


3/13 - I got home from Denver.  Gramps picked me up from the airport and I got to have lunch with Grammy, Gramps and Kasey which was nice.  We had a little time to visit then Grammy took Kasey and I to meet Greg.   We walked with Patch to pick up Landon from school.  Greg, Patch and the kids stopped to play at the park, and I went home to work for a little while.   That evening we had Open House at Norton.   We got to see several of Landon's projects in his class and his AIM notebook which was cool.  They had one thing where they only had pictures of kids teeth and you had to see who it was based on a QR code.   Kasey found Landon's for us :)

Then we went to dinner at Mi Cocina.

3/11 - Kasey had a soccer game on Tuesday of course I was out of town in Denver.  She did score a goal though and was very excited to tell me.

I was in Denver for a training conference.  It snowed for several hours while we were there.  It was pretty but didn't accumulate to much.  Luckily we were inside all day and evening that day


3/8 - Since Kasey wasn't feeling to well, our day was a little less crazy.   Kasey went to soccer pictures but not her game.  I went to work out, then Landon and Greg has baseball practice.  We had lunch at home then Greg and Landon went for his pictures.  The game before his was running really late.   It was raining some and pretty cold.  Grammy stayed with Kasey while Gramps and I went to the game.   It felt like it was in the 30s.  Kids were in blankets on sidelines and we were quite cold in the wind and cold.   Landon scored a great goal over the head of the defenders.  His coach did a somersault when Landon scored.  It was fun.  They other team scored several goals.

Greg went to FC Dallas game.  Landon was super tired so we went to pick up Pluckers and had movie night at home.

3/7 - Kasey woke up not feeling well.  I actually thought she was faking it.  She didn't have fever so I told her she needed to go to school.  Then right before I left for work she threw up. I guess I should have know she was really sick when she didn't want to listen to Frozen music.  As usual with Kasey she was sick for a while, but feeling much better by dinner time.   Kasey and Greg stayed home, and Landon and I went out on a dinner date to BJs.  It was fun to spend some time just us.

3/3 - schools were closed so I worked from home all day.  I never got out of my pajamas which I never get to do :).  I came down for dinner and Landon said I had to get dressed.  I figured it wasn't really worth it at that point :).    I had put on make up because Kasey brought me my make up during the day.

3/2 - Saturday was beautiful and almost 80 degrees, today (Sunday) the temperature just kept dropping and it was sleeting.   We got out of the house and went to see Frozen again.  Greg and I covered the windshield with a mat we use for kids games just so it didn't freeze over.  We were home the rest of the day.  Schools were actually closed on Monday.

3/1 - what a busy Saturday.  Kasey had breakfast birthday party at 9am, Landon had last basketball game of the season at 10  (he got 2 baskets), Kasey had her first Fireflies soccer game at 1 (she really doesn't like to run anymore, still shows some skill when she gets around the ball), and Landon had a soccer game at 2 (he played well but didn't score).  Then Landon had a birthday party at 5.   Greg and I got to take Kasey to dinner at Blue Fish while Landon was at his party.   Needless to say we were all pretty tired that night.