11/28 - Today was Kasey's birthday. I got up to walk the dog because Greg was going to watch dog at the school. I possibly had a work dinner so gave Kasey her few presents before they left for school. Greg drove the kids to school and wasn't feeling 100%. By 9am he was feeling pretty bad and had to leave school. Luckily he did as he ended up getting sick a few times. Kids walked home from school and Greg was just on the couch resting.
I ended up leaving at 5 to come home and get Landon to band and Kasey to dance. I also got some fruit from the store and gas for my car.
11/27 - We got a call from Nanny about 11:30pm that she had fallen off her couch and needed help. None of us could get a hold of Greg's parents so he got dressed and headed south. They were able to get Nanny up on the couch but called parametics just in case. They took her to hospital to make sure everything was ok. Nothing broken thank goodness
11/26 - Today we had family celebration for Kasey's birthday. Greg and I slept in til after 9. We met the grandparents and Cindy and Carlos at Freebirds for lunch. Then we went back to Grandmas for dessert. Kasey had asked for strawberry salad for dessert and we had Carlos' chocolate cake as well.
Kasey opened presents and got some money and a few fun things like a fingerling which she really likes.
Kasey and I had a girl scout meeting where girls earned one of their money badges. After that we waited for Landon's soccer practice to be over. We then headed to Mi Cocina for Kasey's family dinner since we have a busy week ahead. Landon finished up his balloon racer for school which he had fun building.
11/25 - today we had Thanksgiving with the Myers family. Greg got up at 6:15am to put the 21lb turkey in the oven. The kids helped clean up that morning, I think we all took some kind of nap, and got food ready. After the turkey was done, Landon made sweet potatoes and Kasey made green bean casserole. The kids also put butter on the rolls.
We had a very nice meal pretty low key. I left a little early to head to target for a few things because Greg was heading out to watch football with the boys.
The kids and I hung out in the afternoon. We had left overs for dinner and watch Santa Clause is coming to town. A&M lost their game which meant our coach was likely going to get fired
11/24 - Kasey got sick that morning. Thanks to my mom for helping her. My guess is its because she had green beans and sweet potatoes both at lunch and dinner.
Greg and I got up and headed over to my aunts. My parents packed up and headed out. We had some breakfast and took a little longer getting ready to go. We headed home. We got back in town to pick up Patch. We dropped Patch off and want to Village Burger bar for lunch.
We did a few things around the house that afternoon. We had dinner with Greg's family at 6 in Richardson. We didn't get the stay the whole time but had a good meal. That night I had girls night with a few moms including one that moved away and we miss a lot. Always fun catching up with the ladies
Greg was home with the kids and cooking for the next day :)
11/23 - Thanksgiving day. We slept in some, took showers and went to my aunts house. The kids had been up for a while and had eaten yummy breakfast before we got there. We had some breakfast and started getting ready for the day.
The 4 of us went for a walk in the neighborhood which was nice. It was a little cool, but after walking a while we warmed up pretty good. When we got back a few cousins were already there. We had just about everyone in the family that lives in Texas there except 1 of the husbands (he had to work). We got to visit, eat lots of good food, try my cousins homemade beer, and we took some good family pictures. A good time was had by all.
We finished the night with my mom and aunt chatting and having a Rum Chata. Very fun visit.
11/22 - I got up and went to work out. The tire light on the MDX came on as I was leaving. I went to get Landon and we went to a few places to try and fill up the tire. We got it filled up and seemed ok. Landon and I got ready and packed up before Greg got home. Greg got home and we piled in the car with Patch and took Patch and Pops to the Myers house. Then we headed down to Conroe. I drove for a while. We stopped for lunch at Schlotzsky's along the way. We had to take another pit stop so we stopped at Dairy Queen.
We got down to Conroe and got to spend some time with several cousins including our cute 2 year old cousin. Kasey really enjoyed hanging out with her and giving her gifts that Kasey had helped pick out.
The kids and Greg made peaches with red hots for Thanksgiving
We all had Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner which was a fun treat. We stayed up talking about what we could remember as kids which is fun. Greg and I stayed at Cousins house and the kids stayed at my aunts. They share a back yard so they are really close
11/21 - A bit of a crazy day. Greg had to get up early and went to his cousin's funeral in Colorado with his dad and sister. I took the Kids to grandma's for the day. They got to hang out with Grandma and did some cooking for Thanksgiving and Carlos' birthday. They made chocolate cake for aunt mary, pecan pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate cake for Carlos. They also made their own chocolate pie. They had fun and enjoy cooking especially with the grandparents.
That night the kids and I met Grammy and Gramps for dinner. Landon was looking for places in between on google maps and found Magic Time machine so we went there. Landon kind of remembers going there but Kasey doesn't. I have such fun memories of going there as a kid laughing and watching my parents and grandparents laugh as well. At this restaurant the whole staff is dressed like characters, and they make jokes about just about everything. We had spiderman as our waiter. He took us to the salad bar and made a joke about if we had questions to ask the little kid that was in front of us. he also brought bread to the table and told us it was bread disguised as a napkin.
Very fun. We got pictures including one where they switched our faces which was really funny.
Kasey went home with Grammy and Gramps to ride with them to Conroe. Landon and I waited for Greg to get home and went with him.
11/19 - After some debate with Kasey about when to decorate for Christmas the kids and I put the tree and decorations up. Saturday Kasey argued the putting up the decorations before her birthday was wrong and I didn't care about her. By the time I got home from moms day out she had a note saying we could decorate on Sunday. Luckily that was the case because we don't have a lot of time other than that Sunday to put up decorations.
11/18 - I had a moms day with some of the other girl scout moms. We went to grapevine for lunch and to do some wine tastings. We went to a few places, got some snacks along the way. It was fun to get out and hang out and enjoy some wine. We also did a little shopping along the way. Very fun day. We were home in time for dinner.
11/17 - Landon had an overnight to go to. They had fun with burgers and electronics. The same night Kasey had a friend over for her birthday party. I took the girls to the salon for some pampering, then we had pizza at home and the girls watched a movie before making a big palette on the floor to sleep on. This meant Greg and I were in the same room for the evening. We got to watch some shows we hadn't watched yet.
11/12 - The kids and I went to see Thor. Landon and I liked it, but Kasey was bored. The kids and I went to lunch at Zoes which they weren't thrilled about.
Greg was at coaches meeting then went to watch Cowboy game with Doug. The kids and I hung out at the house and we grabbed a quick dinner.
11/11 - We had a few Scout things going on today. Landon had merit badge work from 8-12pm. Kasey and I had a journey workshop at the Heard museum. The girls learned about water, water cycle, fresh vs salt water. Then they had to carry water in a bucket a long way showing what it would be like to do that for your family as many girls do around the world.
We came home after scouts. Kasey and I went to Pei Wei for lunch. We went home to change shirts and say hi to the boys then we met Grammy at craft fair. We had fun shopping together. We found some things for each other and some gifts for others as well. Fun times. We even saw Fredel, Mrs Dedo, and Mrs Carter.
The kids and I went to dinner at Cotton Patch Cafe, kept track of the Aggies winning and then came home to get the kids in bed. Of course at one point before Landon went to bed the power went out in the whole neighborhood. It wasn't for to long, but scared Landon a bit. Luckily it came back on, Patch and I were getting a little bored :)
11/10 - Landon finally went back to school today although I'm pretty sure he would have rather stayed home. During the week he missed 3 STAAR benchmark tests and his band concert. Friday he had to make up 2 benchmark tests but got to do AIM as well.
That morning they had Veterans Day celebration at the school. For the first time we had Girl Scouts walk in the parade. We discovered that we have about 54 girl scouts and many of them walked in the parade. It was neat to see!
That night Landon's soccer team played in a championship game to determine who from their grade level will compete for Allen in a tournament in early December. Landon didn't play a ton which this time it was ok because he was tired from being sick all week. The team won 2 to 0. Great job boys.
We stopped at Jason's Deli on the way home for some dinner then got the kids to bed. They were both a bit tired.
11/6 - 9 - Landon woke up with fever and didn't feel well so we kept him home from school. Apparently Landon wasn't the only one to get sick. We don't have firm numbers, but supposedly Monday about 12 kids were home sick and by the end of the day a total of 40 or so kids had gone home. At any rate by that evening I took him to the Dr. He had chills, didn't feel well, had a head ache and upset stomach some. They did flu test, and Landon ended up curled up on the table with a blanket. He tested positive for Flu A - as did several others in his class. Over the next few days he had fever, chills, felt bad, had really bad headaches and had a little cough. The first few days he really didn't feel well. The last few he still had fever but was playing xbox with his friends often. Some of the other kids had really bad coughs with it and at least one wasn't able to get off the couch for several days. They think the kids got it from a field trip the week before
11/5 - With time change we tried to sleep in some, but didn't do very well. Kasey came down and we were lazy watching Hallmark for a while. We had some donuts for breakfast and then eventually got showers and got ready. We went to the salon to get our nails done, then picked up Greg and went to get Landon at the church. We headed to lunch because we were all pretty hungry. Yummy Spazo.
Landon found out he didn't make percussion. He was pretty upset. Its hard seeing your kids hurt and not be able to help them.
We came home to rest then got Landon ready for Cotilion. Not his favorite, but I don't think it was horrible today.
We had bacon and eggs for dinner tonight. Landon needed to watch Night at the museum for scouts. He said he didn't feel very good and we measured his temperature and it was about 99. He went to bed.
11/4 - We got up early, took Kasey and Patch to Grandmas. Doug, Dave, Greg and I drove down to College Station for the A&M game. It wasn't pretty, but we had some fun anyway. It was 11am game so we basically drove down and came back after the game was over. We had chicken and dumplings with Grandma and Pops then took Kasey home for her to get some sleep.
11/3 - Landon left on wilderness survival camp out in Oklahoma - Saturday night they had to build their own shelter to sleep under. Landon enjoyed it and did a good job building his shelter.
11/2 - Landon had 3rd round of percussion tryouts. He didn't think he did great. 7 kids from Norton and 12 kids from the other 5 schools.