8/28 - Greg, Doug and I went to speak easy where they have good food, lots of bourbon and drinks and sometimes have live music.
8/27 - First Allen home football game. I volunteered with the band. We get to be security, help kids take jackets off when they go to the restroom and make sure no one sneaks away or into the band area. Watching and listening to them step off as they walk from the practice field to the stadium is really cool. I've volunteered with PTA for many years, but volunteering with the band is really fun because you get to be around the kids. They are good kids and seem to appreciate us helping.
A few of the dads are photographers for the band and they are great at capturing the kids through the season. It's fun to go through the pictures and find kiddos and friends.
Greg and Kasey came to the game. Kasey sat in the middle school section with friends and Greg hung out at the top most of the time.
8/20 - Greg and Landon went on water sports campout. Landon got to wake board once, but had fun. Kasey and I hung out over the weekend. I started cleaning out my closet which was a complete mess.
8/16 - Landon presented is Eagle project to the troop at the weekly meeting
8/15 - Landon and Greg went driving today. Landon drove home from Ereckson - he said it felt really weird, but exciting.
8/11 - First day of school - Landon started big high school campus 10th grader and Kasey started middle school as 7th grader.
They both had pretty good days. Kasey doesn't have to many friends in her classes but knows someone in all of them. She has several friends in band, and has a few friends that she eats lunch with. She likes her history, science and math teachers, but doesn't really like her PE coach. She has PE + homeroom + lunch all together which she says is really long. That might change when she has to change clothes for PE. Kasey is growing up a lot. She got a phone at the beginning of summer. She has many text groups and chats on discord. She still says boys are icky, but admitted to me she has her first celebrity crush - Tom Holland (spiderman). After pine cove and being around several other girls Kasey started shaving end of July. She also showed interest in make up at the end of July. We got some mascara and lipgloss. I've seen her wear lipgloss but don't think she liked the mascara. They grow up so fast.
Landon has to leave at 6:15am to get to band before school. Our neighbor is very nicely taking Landon to band since he's driving and going anyway. Landon has A and B days. A days he's at the high school all day and gets out before last period about 3:15pm. B days he has to take a bus to a different campus around lunch time and has 15 minutes to eat. Not his favorite but hopefully the engineering class will be good. Landon really just likes talking to and playing video games with friends. He wants to try growing his hair out (which Greg is against), but we'll see how it goes.
8/9 - Last silver award class at Larkspur - making little Chickens and accessories. We only had a few ladies but they had fun and got to have some of Kasey's yummy chocolate chip cookies.
8/7 - Landon Eagle Scout court of honor. I think the court of honor went really well. We had several family members there, Doug came, our neighbor Steve and several Scout families. We are able to get a picture of Landon with 4 other scouts who have all been in scouts together since early elementary school. In the ceremony we got to celebrate that Landon was a 3rd generation Eagle Scout. Landon put mom pin on my, I put Landon's Eagle award on him, he put his dad's Eagle award on him and Greg put Pops Eagle award on him. Landon achieved his goal of getting further than both his dad and grandfather. He completed 36 merit badges which is 15 beyond the required number for Eagle. This means he earned 3 Palms. Pops earned 1 Palm and Greg just completed the required number of merit badges. I had put together a slide show of Landon from cub scouts to now which is really fun to watch as these boys have grown up together. Kasey did the music for the slideshow. She found the songs and did the edits which took a good deal of time. Thx Kasey. For the display we showed several things from cub scouts including some pinewood derby cars and Landon's first place trophy. On the boy scout display we showed several of Landon's patches for trips, leadership and ranks. We also showed some of the things from 3 generation of Eagles. We had all 3 of their order of the Eagle Sash, Greg's Merit badges and Eagle project folder. Very fun event and we got some great pictures.
8/6 - We had Fan Fest and Watters Creek for the band. I was there helping to set up pop up shop on the green. I also ended up helping with security as the band walked down streets. It's pretty nostalgic being part of that and seeing all of the band walk through. I also helped with handing out water before going back to the pop up shot. Greg was sitting on patio and Lion and Crown and may or may not have had drinks for when we had down time. Fan Fest was really fun. Got to see the band play, they shared some new songs, and we got to yell for different sections.
8/5 - Landon went with a friend for most of the day to Hawaiian falls then had to come to school to get additional band uniform fittings. I was helping kids get fit again. That day the band walked to the stadium and played in their spot. Landon will be bottom corner of the band during football games - which means he's sitting right behind the drill team.
8/4 - I took a day and a half off to help with Ereckson PTA meet the teacher - we were selling membership, spiritwear and donations and I was one of the only ones who had been involved in in person events the years prior. I was also working on Landon's Eagle Court of honor and helped the next afternoon with extra band fitting.
8/3 - Kasey went with friends to cheer on Ereckson teachers and see a few norton teachers as all of the teachers and staff went to the Allen convention center for convocation.