November 2021

 11/30 - Kasey had her winter band concert at the Lowery Freshman Center.  They were dressed in all black and its always fun to get to hear them play.

11/28 - Kasey turned 13 today.  We celebrated on Thanksgiving with family and I'm taking Kasey and a friend to see the new Spiderman movie.  Kasey let me put up Christmas trees on her birthday - usually she won't let us until after her birthday.

11/27 - The band playoff was at 2pm and ended up being a home game which is pretty easy.  I volunteered to help out.   Allen won.  We got home in time for the Aggie game against LSU.  Which sadly we lost.   We got to have some good drinks and pizza rolls.

11/25 - We had Thanksgiving in the evening.  Good and bad to that.   We got to relax in the morning which was nice then figure out how to time everything.  It all worked out.  We had great dinner, celebrated Kasey's birthday and then had some yummy dessert.

11/23 - Greg and I switched back our closets - good that we cleaned some things out but kind of made a mess doing it.   I filled 3 garbage bags with clothes to donate which is good.

11/20-21 - Landon went with friends to lake house so it was just Greg, Kasey and I.    None of us went to the Aggie game.  We watched at home instead.  We sold our tickets to a sorority sister and their friends so they could all sit together.  Greg took us to brunch at Rick's in downtown McKinney on Sunday morning.  It was really good.

11/19 - Landon's high school took the opportunity to make a 1/2 day of school into a day of service.   The PTSA helped get 600 loaves of bread (Thank you Kroger) + Greg got about $200 worth of jelly to donate from PTSA as well.  He had to go to 5 stores to get that much of the cheaper jelly.

Here are stats from their 1/2 day of service.

2052 student volunteers

3 full size plarned mattresses created

125 pet toys and pet beds made for Allen animal shelter

134 encouraging posters designed for AHS students

250 letters written to troops

600 busy bags created for children in hospital

1000 lunch bags decorated for homeless

4000 pom-poms prepped for art installation at Allen library

9000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made for homeless

14466 items donated to ACO 

That night the football team and band all went to Globe Life Stadium in Arlington.  They needed volunteers for the band.   Grammy and Gramps stayed with Kasey so both Greg and I could volunteer.   It was nice to be inside but the football field in a baseball stadium is weird and the acoustics aren't great.   The band was in a corner so security was easier than expected.

11/16 - After 20 months of COVID, we were finally able to deliver the stuffed animals that the Girl Scout troop made for their bronze award to the local fire department.   A few of the chiefs took a picture of some of them with in front of the fire truck,.

11/15 - Landon was inducted into National Honor Society tonight.   Several of his friends were as well.  Fun to see them dressed up.  Sadly we didn't get a picture of them.  

11/14 - Kasey had Cotillion today.  Not her favorite but fun to listen to the girls talk about it.   A few boys they know are in the class, and many others they don't know.  Several of the boys are shorter than most of the girls.  That will change in time.

11/12 - 13 - We had a very busy weekend.  Kasey was selected to be in an older girl leadership program in Girl Scouts.  40 girls were interviewed and 20 were selected.  She was one of the younger girls selected and the group will focus products like cookies.  The girls had a lock in then led several younger girls at a cookie rally.  The younger girls got to taste cookies and learn different parts of the cookie business.  The older girls also learned more about the back end of the cookie program.

Friday I volunteered with the band for the home game and Greg took Kasey to her lock in.   Saturday morning I was running errands, then went to Neath the Wreath craft fair in the afternoon.  I was bummed Kasey didn't get to go with me, but she was having a good time at her event.  I went to pick Kasey up because the Aggie game was starting about the time she needed to be picked up.  Kasey enjoyed her time, she got to know other girls.  in this group they will do something each quarter related to product sales with Girl Scouts.

Doug came over to watch the game.  We had some good drinks, but sadly the Aggies lost.

11/6 - All 4 of us day tripped the Auburn game.  2:30pm game so we left early, went down to have lunch before then went to the game.   A&M won then we drove back home.

11/5 - I volunteered to help with the band for a home game.   Landon actually came up to go to the restroom so I asked one of the photo dads to take a picture of us.   I was excited to get a picture with him in his uniform.

11/3 - I took both Kasey and Landon to get their hair cut with Larisa.   Landon got the sides cut more but kept the top longer and we all seemed to like that better.  Kasey's hair got a trim and she layered the front a little more.  It looked really good and Kasey was excited.