Wednesday, February 29, 2012

February 2012 Pictures

2/3/12 - 100th Day of school.  Landon made a shirt with 100 Ls on it.  He mad them with 5 colors.  He did everything except poor the paint on the plate.

2/3/12 - We got a free night at great Wolf Lodge.  Kids are ready to go to water park

2/3/12 - Kids got to sleep in cool wolf den with bunk beds.  To bad they didn't sleep so well :)

1/3/12 - We went down for story time.  Kasey wasn't to sure.  Landon was pretty tired from 100th day of school

2/5/12 - Kasey made Valentines for her classmates - bears are for teachers and she made hearts with various stickers and pain for her classmates
2/5/12 - This is what Landon wanted to do for Valentines.  These are for girls and there were brown ones for boys.  We taped little card games to each Valentine
2/7/12 - Kasey has started doing some art and wanting to show it off :)

2/11/12 - This is Kasey's snowman from AppleCreek Preschool.  I think it's great that she was able to do it however she wanted.  It's hanging in my office

2/11/12 - Landon's BDay card to Asher
2/11/12 - Asher had party at Plano theater and kids got to dress up and do a play based on Scooby Do and Angry Birds.  It was cute.  Landon dressed up as Darth Vader


2/12/12 - Silly Kasey girl - Grammy's Celebration

2/12/12 - Celebrating Grammy's Bday with some yummy food from Uncle Julios and yummy Banana pudding dessert

2/12/12 - We got Grammy her own Kindle Fire for her BDay.  Of course the kids are playing with Grammy and Gramps' kindles.


2/12/12 - Kasey and Valentine Doggy


2/12/12 - Landon and Grammy look at Lego stuff
2/12/12 - Kasey hanging in her princess tower and Lady hanging out





2/14/12 - Greg and I got to attend Landon's Valentine class party.  This is his classroom
2/14/12 - This is Landon's table doing craft project at the party


2/14/12 - Mrs Savith (Landon's teacher) didn't have a sine with White so Landon made her one and she hung it on the wall

7/14/12 - Happy Valentines Mr Landon

2/14/12 - Kasey was cold waiting on something so I wrapped her in my robe.  She liked that because it's so soft
2/14/12 - My beautiful Valentine's Flower.  They are my favorite
2/26/12 - My cute kiddos

2/26/12 - Landon started putting puzzles on birthday cards.

2/26/12 - here is side with the puzzle

2/26/12 - Kasey's Birthday card for friend Liam

2/26/12 - Kasey and Peyton at Liam's Birthday
2/26/12 - They got to make rockets


2/26/12 - They went outside and the girls held hands going out

2/16/12 - This is a green screen that showed them on a TV in a different world.  Cute!

2/29/12 - Greg and kids were playing outside.  Landon looks so big in this picture.  He's growing up so fast.

February Updates

2/26 - 2/28 - Poor Kasey woke up a couple hours after going to sleep and got sick all over her bed.  We showered her, changed sheets and got her back to bed.  Then she got sick again.   It ended up that only clean sheets we had for her bed were Greg's Star Wars sheets he had when he was growing up.  

Tuesday she was perfectly fine she went to school and gymnastics.  Wednesday she got sick a couple times again with Grandma, but then Wednesday night at home she was outside running after baseballs and playing basketball in the backyard.

2/24 - After work, Greg was going out with the boys so kids and I went to Grammy and Gramps for dinner.  We had fun having good dinner and kids getting to play.   On the way home the kids and I sang the Muppets "Lifes a Happy Song" which is a very fun song from the new movie.  We've been doing more singing which is fun.  A few weeks ago they had Glee with Ricky Martin.  Kasey and I have been listening, watching and singing it as often as we can La Isla Bonita.   Kasey also likes songs from tangled, another song i really like called O Darling, etc.     At night the kids used to have me sing Hush little baby.  I have now been replaced with my phone playing O Darling or Ricky Martin's La Isla Bonita.  I like that they enjoy music.  Landon has even started singing some of the songs.  He likes Life's a happy song, O darling and Mah na mah na also from the muppets.
Also on the way home tonight Landon was asking about City and Country.  I kept thinking city we live in and the country we live in.  What he was talking about was living in downtown city vs living out in the country.

2/23 - We had first soccer practice tonight for Landon's new soccer team.  Hes playing with some kids from school and a few others from Allen.  We are pretty used to very structured practices with the coaches he's had, and tonight was a little different.  As long as Landon has fun we should be ok.  He hasn't played soccer since last summer, but he seemed to be doing pretty well out there.

2/18 - 2/19 - Greg and I celebrated Valentines today.  The kids got to go to the grandparents which they liked.  We went to an early movie with Doug to see Star Wars in 3D, and then went up to Frisco to SilverFox steakhouse.  We found an Allora wine which is one of our favorites,  We had good steaks and some chocolate cake.   We got home and actually went to be early.  Of course we both woke up at 6:30am, but were able to go back to sleep.  I had aspirations to work on the house and get some stuff done, but Greg just wanted to relax some.   We did go to lunch at Bonnie Ruth's and have their yummy weekend brunch buffet.   Then we headed to Bed Bath and Beyond for a little shopping and headed to pick up the kids.

We went to dinner at 5th Street Pizza which was good, but it took a long time to get the kids food so they were grumpy

2/17 - After work we met up with Dave, Tracy, Elizabeth and Doug at Snuffers for dinner.  We were at a huge table, but still had fun.   Elizabeth  was sitting in a high chair, and kids were waiving at her which was cute.

2/14 - We had a fun Valentines day.  Both kids had school and little parties.  Kasey had made heart valentines and Landon made teddy bear valentines.   Kasey went to the Dentist for the first time today.  She was excited and showed us her teeth.  She got them cleaned with strawberry fluoride.  

 Greg and I got to go to Landon's Valentines party today.  It was fun seeing the kids in his class.  We had made cupcakes for the party which was also fun.
Greg made us spaghetti and meatballs for dinner which was great as usual!   We also had some wine.  Greg got me some flowers (with help from Kasey) and got me a silly card.  Thank goodness my mom and Greg's mom got me chocolates :)  We'll go to dinner somewhere next weekend.
Landon made a big heart with pictures and sentences saying who he loved.  He had mom & dad, Lady and Kasey, Grammy and Gramps, Grandma and Pops, and Justin and Liam.  On mine and greg's picture we are holding a drink -Landon said we were having a beer - luckily it looks like a drink with a straw in it.

2/12 - We went to Grammy and Gramps today to celebrate Grammy's Birthday.  We all had gotten her a new kindle fire - what she has really been wanting.  We had some yummy food from Uncle Julios, Greg's Banana pudding dessert - Yum.   Kids had fun playing.  They got to play with their Valentines gifts from Grammy and Gramps then they both played some games on the kindle and had fun showing Grammy and Gramps how to play.  Fun times! 


2/11 - We hung out some, went to get some new soccer gear for Landon, and then Landon and I went to fun BDay party for his friend from preschool Asher.  The party was at Plano Theater - the kids got to learn stage directions, act out, and put on a little play. They were doing scooby doo, but so many kids liked Angry birds that the bad guys in the story were angry birds.  then they got to have cake (Angry  Birds of course), and then they got dressed up in all kinds of costumes and put on the little play.  It was cute, and fun different party.


2/10 - I picked up kasey from my mom to take her home.  At one point I got into the right hand lane which is always slower, and so I said something about it.  Kasey, said don't worry mommy, when people slow down in front of you I will lift up my Soy and they will move.  Funny thing is that when she did it they moved...  To cute


2/3 - 2/4 Today (2/3) was the 100th day of school.  The kids each decorated a shirt with 100 somethings on it.  Landon painted 100 Ls on his shirt.  Some of the other kids had googly eyes, baseballs, jewels, stamps, etc.  They also got to have 100 piece snacks - they picked out 10 of 10 different snacks - luckily Landon brought some home.
I got to pick Landon up from school, and the we headed home and headed out to Great Wolf Lodge for the night.  They have wrist bands for everyone.  The parent wrist bands have RFID in them to unlock doors and while you are checked in allow you to pay for anything on the premise which is nice.  Once we got everything settled and changed we got to the water park about 5pm and started playing.   Kasey went straight for the "toddler park" and Landon wanted to go to the bigger kid part.  We did that some, did wave pool, Landon and Greg went on one of the big tube rides (Landon didn't like it because he was facing backwards), and we went on the Lazy river.   After a couple hours of fun we grabbed some pizza and headed upstairs to shower and get the kids in their pajamas and eat.  There is a story downstairs every night at 8pm (pretty late for the kids, but we planned on it).   There are electronic characters - trees, squirrels, owl, girl, boy and a moose.  The kids were actually kind of scared until it started up then they seemed ok.  They sang a song about not being scared int he woods then one of the staff members read a book.  It was late for our kiddos so we headed upstairs.  The kids got to sleep in bunk beds.  We had a wolf den room so kids had a themed little room to sleep in.  Landon didn't go right to sleep, but did fairly quickly.  Kasey on the other hand couldn't go to sleep - she was probably up until 10 or so, and ended up crashing on the floor.  I guess she didn't like the bed.   Greg couldn't get wifi working well on his laptop so he went to bed early.  I was reading and stayed up later - not a smart move.  Kasey woke up in the middle of the night scared, Greg woke up with reflux and then of course the kids woke up at 6:30am. 

Saturday morning we had breakfast in the room vs paying $20 each for buffet, then headed down to play in the water park more.  We checked out and Greg was pretty cold taking stuff to the car.  We played for 3-4 hours and had a good time doing different things at the water park, but kids were exhausted and so were Greg and I.   Landon tried another big slide with me and likes some of the middle slides that we tried.  It was fun when we got there early and lines weren't to long, but he didn't want to wait as they got longer.   We headed out, had lunch at fuddruckers, and then headed back to our side of town.

Except for the lack of sleep we had a good time.  I think next time we should stay for a few nights so we can do some things other than water park.
Needless to say kids were in bed without to much complaining before 7:30.  Hopefully they will sleep in.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Janauary 2012 Pictures

1/7/12 -Landon made his own Guido, and then put it on top of toy Guido so it could move
1/7/12 - We had progressive dinner on the block.  Here are big kids

1/7/12 - Here are younger ones - we're missing a young one who got sick

1/7/12 - Playing and hanging out

1/7/12 - Kasey and Peyton

1/7/12 - Kasey and Chloe

1/7/12 - Maya, Kasey and Chloe
1/19/12 - Kasey with cousin Peyton

1/19/12 - Kasey and Landon with cousin Peyton
1/22/12 - Landon made an airport - with hanger

1/22/12 - Here is the rest of the runway

1/24/12 - Landon was so excited about my Valentine he gave it to me early.  here is front

1/24/12 - Sweet note inside

1/24/12 - The End :)

1/24/12 - He also gave me clues to get the rest of my valentines.  It says 1. Go up the stairs 2. Go to my room 3.  Open the 5th drawer 4. then you will find your valentine

1/24/12 - I found this artwork and the rocket below for my valentines - sweet boy

1/28/12 - We had Marvin the monkey from school for the weekend.  He got to play at the park with Peyton and Liam. Liam didn't want his picture taken.

1/28/12 - Marvin also got to have dinner at Bonnie Ruth's with Grammy and Gramps

1/28/12 - Landon and Gramps working on Angry birds

1/29/12 - Marvin and Landon reading book baggie

1/29/12 - Landon was King of the week so we made a poster for him with family, sports, vacations and art/legos

January Updates


1/30 - Landon got to be King of the week.  He was so excited about it.  He wanted to wear a nice shirt since he was king.  Things he got to do as King - do the calendar, be line leader all week, help hand out papers, he even said that he had to tell class to be quiet several times.
He came home this week with a list of compliments that his class mates said about him.  I thought it was fun to see.  This is what they said:
Landon rules because:
  • He is a good artist
  • He is responsible
  • He is fun to play with
  • He is awesome
  • He is cute - he made a big deal of this one thinking that is how girls are described, I let him know that's what girls say when we think boys are good looking
  • He is very fast
  • He is a good reader
  • He has good behavior
  • He is cool
  • He is smart
  • He is nice
  • He is good at math
1/29 - Marvin helped Landon ready his books this morning.  We had several projects to work on this weekend.    We had a poster to make for Landon's King of th week, we had to document our fun with Marvin, and start making a shirt for 100 day of class  - Landon decided to paint Ls all over his shirt - he has to paint 100 of them.  We are halfway done.  Kids really wanted to work on Valentines, but we didn't have time.

1/28 - Greg needed to help pops so we all went to Janice and Tony's for a little while.  They got to meet Marvin and hang out with the kids some.  Marvin helped Landon build some legos.  Greg had planned to go to dinner with the boys so kids and I met Grammy and Gramps for dinner at Bonnie Ruth's.  They got to meet Marvin as well.  Yummy!

1/27 - Landon gets to be King of the Week next week.  So he got to bring home Marvin the monkey to share the weekend with.  Marvin has been to the store, he got to ride to dinner with us, go to Bliss and see all the yummy cupcakes.   

1/26 - Kasey has been sick this week.  She woke up with pretty bad runny nose Monday/Tuesday.   Thursday she woke up with lots of stuff in her eye but we don't think it's pink eye.  She seems to be feeling better.  She got to watch several movies while she wasn't feeling well.

1/22 - We had a fun day.  Kids and I had donuts for breakfast.   We went to see Beauty and the Beast in the theater because they had a non 3D showing.   Landon got pretty scared in a few places, but did ok.  I think they liked it, but we really went because I wanted to see it.
In the afternoon they opened up a place by us called Connemara.  It's a nature reserve that is open sometimes to walk through.  We took a 45 minute walk around and enjoyed being out in nice weather.   Landon goes there sometime for school so he showed us around some :)

1/21 - We got a letter today with some test scores from testing they did at Landon's school.  He did pretty well and looks like he qualifies for further testing to see about being part of the gifted and talented program.  We'll learn more this coming week what that means, but we are excited and very proud of him.
We had a busy day.  I had a celebration of life to go to for a co-workers wife who passed away a few weeks ago.  Then I took Kasey to a birthday party at Gymboree - the lady who did the party had taught both Kasey and Landon at Gymboree so it was good to see her.  Then we came home and got the kids bathed and in bed.  Greg went out to dinner at Bobs with the boys, and a few friends from the block came over for wine and some good girl talk.

1/20 - I went to Landon's school and had lunch with him.  Greg had already made Landon's lunch when I told him I was going to do that, so he made me a lunch as well.  He wanted me to make my lunch, but I was running late for work.

1/19 - Kasey took her first swimming lesson.  3 kids in her class and she had fun.  She said they did lots of kicking :)

1/16 - They decided that Kasey could move up to the next level in her gymnastics class.   After that during the week she kept saying, I need to run for my gymnastics class or I need to practice different things for her gymnastics class.

1/15 - Kids didn't have school on Monday so Greg and I met up with Dave, Doug, Tracy and Elizabeth to exchange wine from our trip and get some dinner at Zorbas.  The kids got to spend the night at grandparents.  Greg and I then went to a movie - we went to see Mission Impossible.

1/14 - We decided to change out Kasey's earrings from when she got them pierced.   She did not like that.   The instructions said to wriggle the earring to get it off.  Whatever wriggle means.   I ended up having to bend it and poor baby cried and said it hurt.  She was ok after, but didn't like it.  She choose to wear pearl earrings that her cousins Haley and Ashlyn had given her.
Kids and I went to park to play.  We decided to play hide and seek.   At playground there really isn't any place to hide, but we played anyway.  The  kids would count pretty fast so you had to run to find a place.  Kasey didn't really understand hiding, but she was good at seeking.  At any rate, we had a great time.  Kasey kept asking to go back to the park and play hide and seek

1/8 - 1/13 - I went to Las Vegas for CES which was good but crazy.  Didn't have as much time to walk around this year as last year.

1/7 - We had a fun neighborhood party.  We decided to do a progressive dinner.  We have 4 families on the block with kiddos the same age.  We started at one house for appetizers and Cosmopolitans for the ladies, then off to next house where we had tortilla soup, salad and enchiladas for main course with some wine, and then to our house for dessert and some port/wine.   Kids had a great time and the adults enjoyed it as well.   Next time we'll probably do it at one person's house so we don't all have to clean our houses.

1/6 - I finally got my hair cut after about 4 months, my hair was a mess.   I was close to my parents so I went by and had a quick lunch with them which was nice.  I don't get to do that much at all.   Then back to work again.   My dad was released from doctors today after his two knee replacement surgeries.   He had first one on November 18th and 2nd one on December 1st.  He did a great job sticking with physical therapy and doing exercises like he was supposed to.  His first knee has 30 degree range of motion and 2nd knee has 28 degree (which the doctor is very pleased with)

1/2/12 - Last day of holidays.  We had kind of lazy day.  We went to Kasey's gymnastics class to see her play.  She does well on some parts and just plays on others.   Kids and I got to go to the park for a while.  There were big kids there, but the kids just went on playing.   Landon did good on monkey bars, Kasey swung in the baby swing for a while.  Landon then tried out gymnastics class as well that night.  He got to do stuff in the foam pit, stretch, do arm work on bars and rings, and also do some jumping and trampoline.  He really enjoyed it and got a good work out out of it.

1/1/12 - Had a good day.  we slept in some which was nice, and then got up and all took showers.  We went to lunch at Cotton Patch Cafe because I knew they would have Black Eyed Peas - luckily both kids at some.  Then at the end Kasey lost it because I wouldn't pick her up in the parking lot.  She was tired, so she took a nap.  Landon and I played his new Monopoly game from Grammy and Gramps which he liked a lot.   Then we rested some and decided to go outside on nice day.  Greg went for bike ride and I took kids out for little walk and to play at the playground.  Landon did well on the monkey bars, Kasey loved swinging, and they went all over playground even though there were older boys playing  football on the playground.  I guess it's good they aren't scared.   Then we headed out for dinner and found multiple places closed - we ended up at Bonnie Ruths for some good dinner and excellent dessert.  Yum.   Good way to start new year.