10/31 - Halloween. Landon was going to a friends house to hang out and go trick or treating. He had last minute costume to be a safari guy?? Kasey had convinced us to get her a big red blow up costume that was really fun but not so practical. Anyway, she had asked a few friends to come over, then a few of her new friends also came over. Kasey went to like 2 houses as the big red dog then decided it wasn't worth changing batteries so she had on underneath her shirt that says this is my human costume I'm really a chicken nugget. 5 girls ran around our neighborhood. Greg and I sat outside with candy and watching the cowboy game with neighbor in his front yard
10/30 - today was a crazy day. I went with the band to Mesquite for Regional marching contest. We had call time at 6am, the band practiced before we left. Then we got there and they got ready and performed in the morning. We had Rudy's BBQ catered for lunch - yum. Then we all headed to Forney high school for afternoon practice. The volunteers sat in the shade and had some snacks :) Then we went back to Mesquite to get results and Allen made the finals. This is a big deal as they haven't done this in a few years. We all had dinner, the directors talked to the kids about being proud of what they accomplished and not negative that they shouldn't make it. They performed pretty well, but ended up getting 10th (out of 10) in the finals for Area. At the end all finalist bands come on the field. Because of the size of Allen it took our band the same amount of time to get on the field as 9 other bands competing. It was a long day, but fun to be a part of. I think we got back to the school after 11pm.
10/29 - Greg helped out with band and it was an away game so Kasey and I went to dinner with Grammy and Gramps. We went to Chepas - yum!!
10/23 - Kasey made all city band so she got to go to a clinic with visiting director (who is actually someone that volunteers and has kids in the Allen band), learn new music in several hours then perform for the parents. Proud of her for making it.
Landon went to his first homecoming the same day. He was going with a group of guy friends - they all agreed to wear collared shirts and slacks or suit pants - no tie, no coat. They don't like planning at all. They finally decided to get dinner at Black Walnut cafe. I took a few of the boys up there. Then after dinner I took them to the dance. There was a huge line at the high school. I told them to text me if they didn't want to stay. They stayed for a while then went back to one of the boys houses. They played basketball in their nice clothes - they had actually planned ahead for this taking tennis shoes :)
the only picture I was able to get of the group was after dinner when it was already mostly dark. Not great, but I got a picture.
Greg went to A&M for South Carolina game with the boys.
10/22 - I volunteered with the band at home game. They really needed extra people on the field to help so Kasey got to help hand out snacks to all the high schoolers after halftime while Greg helped in the field. Pretty cool.
10/16 - I volunteered with the band for Regional marching contest. We had call about 9am and were back around 2:30pm. The band advanced to the next level of competition at Area marching competition.
10/13 - Kasey went with me to volunteer with the band. We were changing a part of all of the uniforms to the show uniform. Let's just say undoing and redoing a bunch of buttons was hard on the hands.
10/9 - All 4 of us went to College Station for the Alabama football game. We ate at Copy Bridge for some burgers with friends. We went to the game. I figured this game we would either lose bad or win. We beat the number 1 team in the country. Right after the win we got a fun picture of the 4 of us. Both of the kids were even into this game. Fun times! Gig'em
10-8 - Today was boo bowl where the band dresses up in Halloween costumes. Landon and one of his friends dressed in Christmas sweaters and hats. I had to borrow a sweater from a friend a work.
10/7 - Julie and I got to go to a Girl Scout VIP event on behalf of TI. It was a happy hour that was part of the Women of Distinction luncheon that honors a few Gold award recipients and a few key ladies in the community. It's a great program.
Greg was at USA/Jamica soccer game. Grammy and Gramps came over to have dinner with the kids until I got home.
10/5 - Kasey's middle school band planned at the football game today. This was the only time they were doing it. Greg volunteered to help out. I came from work. I think there were more parents taking pictures of the band than watching the game. Fun times. The director started talking to the kids about going down on the field at halftime. They had never practiced before. She was joking but several of the kids believed her. It was funny that several parents volunteering were the same parents that volunteer at the high school band often.
10/2 - Greg, Dave, Kasey and I took bus to day trip College Station to see A&M play Miss State. Landon had Marching regional competition that day. Grammy and Gramps hung out with Patch and were home when Landon got home late. We got about around 1:30am but somehow we lost our car keys. Dave brought us home and we had to drive back to get the car the next day. We had a pretty fun day. We might have had a little to much to drink on the bus, the aggies lost and we lost our keys, but still fun.