October 2020

 10/31 - Greg went to College Station for the game, and I stayed with the kids.  This was the first year that we didn't go down to the neighbors for dinner then all go trick or treating.   Kasey and I did some shopping and picked up Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner.   We also got big candy bars for Landon, Kasey and a few of Kasy's friends.     After dinner I went to pick up a few of Kasey's friends, took them by one of their teacher's houses, and then I dropped them off on our side of the neighborhood so they could walk around and trick or treat.     The friend's mom brought over some yummy baked treats.    Landon was home and we decided to watch the mandalorian together.  We watched the first show and some of the background/special episodes they had.   After trick or treating the kids came back, sorted candy and watched some TV - they also took care of trick or treaters.  Landon, Patch and I stayed in the bedroom away from the noise.  The Aggies won!

10/30 - what an evening.  Kasey had a pom squad performance in the parking lot of her dance studio - they did great, fun to get to see them perform.  After we went to pick up a friend.  It was Boo bowl for Allen band - most of the band members dress up for halloween.  Landon and french horns dressed up as characters from the game among us - wearing NASA shirts and he had a paper bag on his head.    It was much easier to find Landon on the field with the bag on his head.  The french horns won the award for best costumes.

10/25 - Greg and I got to go to Del Friscos last minute for Doug's birthday.  I'm always up for a nice dinner and fun to get to go with the boys.  Great food and drinks, and we tried to get a few pictures afterwards :)

10/12 - Kasey and I went to target for a few things and Kasey wanted a halloween blow up for outside.   From the front of target we could see a huge grim reeper blow up so we knew where the seasonal stuff was.   We went back to the area. Kasey loved the 12 foot grim reeper.  It was the last one so a worker said they would sell it to us for 1/2 off with no box.  Greg and I told Kasey if she used her own money we could get it.  She was all in.   We got him home and set hime up.  Kasey named him Grimmy and loved him.  12 foot tall, pointed to the sidewalk, and lit up and blinked.

10/11 - on the way home we stopped to see aunt Mary.  We sat on her back patio and visited for a while.   It was good to see her and Cheri.  No hugs or good food, but it was nice to visit in the new world.

10/10 - We got 6 tickets to the A&M football games, and we were going down for as many as we could.  The kids preferred not to go.  This weekend in October we took Kasey down with us and we stayed in a place in downtown Bryan.    It was a short walk to a speakeasy bar where we went by to get a drink.  Kasey obviously had shirley temple and the rest of us had a favorite whiskey drink vieux carre.   After the game we had dinner reservations at The Republic - good steak house.   Kasey got chicken fried filet mignon - it was really yummy!   Good dinner with friends.