11/30 - We had our neighborhood winter party Fun with food, drinks, neighbors and Santa. Landon and a friend were bored so they walked home. We got a few fun pictures in the big snow globe and Kasey got some with Santa. We brought a neighbor friend with us because his sisters had several other activities that night. The kids had some fun too and got to go on a few hay rides.
11/29 - I took a day trip to Houston today. I had to get up at 4:30 am which is tough when you stay up just past 1am. Luckily I stayed at mom and dad since they are closer to the airport. It was fun to hang out with them the night before. Mom and I had some wine and hung out with dad while he's recovering.
Mom was nice enough to take me and pick me up from the airport!
11/25 - after the crazy game we were pretty wired and stayed up after 1am. needless to say we weren't getting up to early. We got back home about 2:15pm and Kasey and I had girl scout meetings that went from 2:30 til about 5:30. Its fun to see the girls leading and planning badge work this year. They are doing a great job.
11/24 - We slept in some, all got showers, ate breakfast and headed out. We went to park in our parking lot and walked to Northgate. We got to the Chicken just in time to get a table. We got some beer, kids got powerade, we got some dominoes and hung out. Not long after that we saw Cindy walking in. We all ordered food and ate before the lines got crazy long. The kids played several different domino games with the kids. Johnny football came in trying to keep his presence unknown which was hard, but it was cool to see him.
We went to hang out on the porch with Tracy and family for a bit until we walked to the game. It was a crazy game. About 30 seconds left and we threw an interception. It was already late so we started walking out. Such a bummer. As we got downstairs there were TVs showing that they ruled the quarterback's knee down so we still had the ball. Then somehow they ruled that there was 1 second left on the clock to give us one more play. We got a touchdown and extra point to tie the game. We are standing downstairs with many Aggies who also thought the game was over. As we went into overtime the game ended up going to 7 overtimes before the Aggies won. The kids got to be part of the nail biter and be nervous through 7 overtimes.
11/23 - We got up and got ready, then headed to aunt Mary's to visit some more. Everyone was a bit tired. We had left overs for lunch. Our cousins were leaving to head back to Vegas and we were driving to College Station to meet our friend for the weekend.
We headed out in the afternoon and tried to do a little shopping in College Station. We checked into the house we were renting. We had a beer or two, turned on football and hung out. The boys went to get food and beer to watch football. The kids played some pool with Doug, I got to read my book that one of my sorority sisters wrote.
11/22 - Today was our first Thanksgiving without our cousin David. He was kind of the rock of the family and did so much for everyone. It was a tough day but a great day. We had so many people around that it didn't seem to different. Lots of kids playing together from 2 years old to 16 years old. We decided this year to have mexican food. We had several pans of enchiladas, tamales, and tacos. So yummy. Of course as usual we had been eating snacks most of the morning, but we still ate well. We also ate lots of dessert - we had a ton and somehow ate most of it. It was a great day.
In the evening after several people had gone home we sat around my aunts table. It got more emotional with the small group, but we were all thankful to be together. Sad that David wasn't with us and sad that my parents couldn't join us. We got some good pictures of all the kids and families. They will be great for the calendars.
11/21 - We got up and got ready to head out. We had to take 2 cars to get Patch and her crate to Grandma and Pops house. Mom and dad still didn't feel well enough to travel :(
We grabbed some food on the way out of town and headed south. There was some traffic getting out of Dallas and several crazy people on the road unfortunately. We made it down to hang out with family for the afternoon and evening. It was great seeing family. We ate yummy leftovers, had some drinks and caught up. We didn't stay to late so we could get back and get the kids to bed.
11/20 - I worked Monday of Thanksgiving week, but took off the rest of the week. We had many errands to run on Tuesday and were leaving town Wednesday. I got a text from mom to call her with a picture of my dad. They had been having a very rough week. VERY bad stomach bug. Dad hadn't eaten for a few days and fell trying to help mom. Needless to say they didn't feel like driving or riding in a car for 4 hours. We were all sad that they couldn't travel and go with us.
11/18 - We slept in a little bit. The kids woke up after 8 but were hungry because we didn't really have dinner. The kids and I got dressed and went downstairs to get some food while Greg showered.
We took our time and headed home close to 11am. We picked up Patch from grammy and gramps. We watched the cowboys for a little bit - they would play well, then not play well. Somehow they won with a near miss field goal.
We did some chores, hung out in the afternoon and went to an early dinner at Mexigo.
11/17 - We got up and of course the kids wanted to sleep in so we needed to wake them up. We got ready and headed out. We took Patch to stay at Grammy and Gramps house and we headed down the College Station. We ran by Chick fil a to grab some breakfast on the way. We got down there and met Doug at Wings n more for lunch since we haven't been there all season.
We tried to check in after that but rooms weren't ready. We went to do a little shopping then went to hang out and watch football in Doug's room. We finally got checked in that afternoon - they left a new girls by herself checking everyone in at 3pm. Um....
We went to part near Northgate and went to the chicken to have a few beers. Kasey watched the snake because it was moving a lot, and Landon was letting me listen to the music he's playing in the band concert that is coming up. Overall we had fun.
One of my sorority sisters was there at the seats next to us with her family. It was fun to catch up and get to talk to her. Aggies won, yeah! After the game the boys went for a drink and I took the kids back to the hotel.
11/15 - Kasey's art was chosen to be shown at watters creek tonight. We were bad parents and forgot to go by to see it. She was very sad. Bad parenting day :(
11/11 - We got up and showered then headed home. Landon got back from his campout about 9:30am. He went with a friend until we could get home. We got Patch, got home, picked up Landon. Landon took a shower and the kids practiced their music. Greg and I went to the store, got lunch and picked up a wine shipment (that they almost sent back accidentally). We had lunch and started cleaning up the house. Greg went to help his dad work on his house.
Kasey invited a friend over, and Landon found some friends online to play fortnite with. We went to MiCocina for dinner. The kids are both really tired
11/10 - We got up because the A&M game was at 11. Some of the group left early to meet friends, The rest of us went together early to the game. We grabbed a beer heading to the stadium. The boys went into the club and Kasey and I headed to the 3rd deck. We noticed that Nothing Bundt Cake was there and it was chilly so we got one of those and some hot chocolate. We sat at a table thinking it was a little warmer hanging out. We watched a few tasty videos as well. We headed to our seats and it started sprinkling - there was 0% chance of rain when I woke up. It wasn't bad but we were not prepared for rain.
We got to see the flyover and start to the game. Greg brought us some food from the club after the first quarter. He disappeared later to go have a drink in the club. The aggies beat Ole Miss. There was a guy near us that kept yelling at everything. Eventually it gave Kasey a headache.
We went back to the house to relax for a while. We had some wine, watched football, charged devices and maybe took a little nap. Then we headed to dinner. We tried Porters steakhouse. It was pretty good and nice to enjoy a good dinner. They had no kids menu but Kasey had no problem with 8oz filet, ceasar salad and some mac and cheese. It was a good meal.
After dinner we came back to the house to hangout with some more football and wine.
11/9 - I got home while Greg was picking up Landon from school. Kasey and I packed the car. We were dropping Landon at another scouts house before they headed to Texas motor speedway for the weekend. Greg, Kasey and I were heading to College Station for the weekend. On our way out of town we stopped at Chick fil a to grab some dinner. We didn't get down there until after 8pm. We went to the house and pretty quick got Kasey into bed. Greg started a fire, we opened a bottle of wine and I started reading a new book. It was so relaxing. I really needed that.
11/4 - We didn't have a lot to do for the weekend which is unusual. We spent some time on the house. We went through all the boxes of books and got them into the bookshelf upstairs, Kasey organized most of her toys upstairs and we got the desks in the room. Its not 100%, but making good progress and we got through all of the boxes in the dining room except the DVDs. I even put the kids sports and school pictures into a mock album.
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