November update

11/30 - I got to work out in the morning which was great.  Just a few of us there after Thanksgiving.   Then got ready and Kids and we headed to get Grammy.  We had decided to go to Magic Time Machine for fun.  I remember going there several times as a kid with my grandparents and friends and loved it.   We were talking that first time we went with my grandparents, we had Mork from Mindy and Mork as our waiter.   I remember my grandmother laughing so hard, we were all crying from laughing so much.   Unfortunately there were very few people there.  We had Nacho Libre for waiter, he was ok but couldn't understand everything he was saying.   We had a coupon that we had to spend a certain amount the use the coupon so we went big.  Landon got a crazy drink the bubbled (he didn't like it - sprite and orange juice).  we got the Roman Orgy which was a ton of food,  chicken and brisket, potatoes, vegetables and a bunch of fruit.  It was actually pretty good.  We had a great time.

After lunch we went back to Grammy's so the kids could play for a while.    Landon worked on a lego and then we got Grammy's Christmas stuff down.  Kasey and Landon helped Grammy decorate her tree which was fun.

Then when we got home we decorated our tree.  We did it upstairs this year to keep it away from Patch, who knows what she will do.   Kids had apple cider, I had egg nog and we played Christmas music while we decorated.  Kids had fun finding all their ornaments from over the years and putting them up.

11/28 - Kasey turned 5 years old today.  We told her she wouldn't really turn 5 until 3:28pm so she asked almost all day if she was 5 yet.  She found her new Rasor first thing in the morning.  Landon has one and they fight over it outside so we thought they needed a 2nd one.

We had some quick breakfast then spent time cleaning up the house to get ready for everyone coming over.   We had few things to cook and then we were ready.  We have 13-15 people at the house from noon til about 5.  It was nice for everyone to get to visit, eat good food and watch some football.
After lunch we sang happy birthday to Kasey with candles in pumpkin pie.   Everyone had good dessert - we had pumpkin pie, pecan pie, cherry pie and Jeff Davis Pie.   all good and homemade
We cleaned up a little and then opened presents for Kasey's birthday.   She had made little pieces of paper with scribbles and letters on them for each family that got her a gift.  It was pretty cute.  she was excited about her gifts and some of them Landon was even more excited because he was going to get to  play with them as well.

Over all it was a great day.  We have so much to be thankful for!

11/27 - I got to take the day off so we had good day.  We started off with family breakfast.  We all went  to lunch at Freebirds which we don't get to do very often.   Kids were funny fighting over who gets to order with which parent and who gets to sit by which parent.   After that Greg had to run a few errands so Kids and I went to Party city, Petco and Merle Norman.   At Party city we got a few things for Kasey's birthday and a craft for kids to make for Thanksgiving. They made little scarecrows which was cute.  Kasey also picked out a silly headband with candles that she wanted to wear.  She's really excited about her birthday.

We got home and had some cooking and cleaning to do.   Kids helped us make pies, and Patch was really trying to get homemade pie crusts.    Kasey is excited to have pumpkin pie for her family birthday dessert.  We are excited that it's part of what we'd make for Thanksgiving anyway.
Greg made fajita meat on grill, I made guacamole and we had a good dinner at home.  Then we watched Madagascar 3.  Kasey knows many of the lines and songs even the French one, and that's what she wants to watch at her small friend party.

11/24 - We had a great family day.  It was supposed to be snowing and really bad weather all day.  It never made it.  We started off making breakfast.  I made pancakes, Greg made cheese eggs and hot chocolate.   I think Landon had 4 pancakes and a bunch of eggs.   After breakfast we got ready for the day - quite slowly.  We headed to lunch at Big Easy which is one of our favorite.    After that we headed to Amazing Jakes for Landon's baseball end of season party.   I went to run a few errands while they started playing and then joined them.  All in all, we all had fun time.  got to do putt putt, car and motorcycle racing games, butterfly balloon backpacks, and unicorn balloon, both played lasertage, kids played a pirate shooting game together which was fun.  We even got some dinner.

11/23 - I finally went to work out for the first time since I broke my toe.    it was great to get to aerobics.    We went to lunch together and then Kasey and I went shopping together.  I found several dresses - some for cruise and some for work.   We had fun helping each other find clothes and trying them on.

We got home in time for A&M game.  Unfortunately they didn't win.  At half time kids went outside to ride scooters and bikes.  Patch got a short walk.
We went to quick dinner at Panera and got home to get kids in bed.  Landon decided he wanted to text Grammy then didn't want to go to bed.  He wants a phone so he can text us.  I told him he has to be 12.  He told me he'll just text from his ipad which I don't think he can do :)

11/22 - Landon had friend birthday.  Greg, Kasey and I hung out at home.  Kasey has a princess fold out that has image of Ariel scene, Belle scene and Cinderella.  The back has picture of river with bridge, grass trees and Cinderella castle.   Kasey decided she wanted to make up a story, and then we sang a song.  She sang the song, and then asked me to sing it.   She corrected me along the way, and then we sang it several times. :)

11/21 - we got done with our event a little early so we headed to the airport to see if we could catch early flight.  Unfortunately it was full so we had a long time til our flight.  We had few drinks and dinner then headed to wait for flight.  We left a little late and pilot said we'd land about 15 minutes late.   About 30 minutes before landing pilot came on saying that storm came through Dallas early and DFW was closed.  We landed in Longview to refill.  We sat on the tarmac, got fuel, had walkway come to plane.  They gave us option to get off if we wanted to - I don't think anyone did.   Then we flew back to DFW.  I ended up getting home after 12:30am - about 3 hour late.  Good times. Of course I had to be up for 8:30am meeting

11/20 - I had one more trip for the year.  Went to Louisville for few days.  Got to meet with partner and spend time training customer.

11/19 - We had Pixies end of season party.  One of the moms Meg was so nice to help plan it, make cupcakes and make headbands for the kids.  I asked for help with all the travel I've been doing.  So thankful that she took over.  We ate at 5th street pizza.  Girls got their trophies and fun dessert!

11/18 - Greg did his first watchdog visit at Norton.  It's a new program where dads spend the day at school helping out, being a male presence at the school.  He got to have lunch with Landon, help with his class a few times, play outside with kids, and help with a few others things.

11/17 - We had two friend birthday parties and it was a beautiful day.  The first party was at science place.  Kasey got to try out several experiments including exercising on little bike that created energy that you got to transfer to big area with push of button.  she had a good time.  All of the kids got to build with blocks and they tried to blow them down and shake them down.  The kids also got to make bubble snakes.  They took water bottle tops (1/2 water bottle), put dish towel and rubber band over.

Dipped it in bubbles and blew threw top of water bottle.  They had fun.

11/16 - Kasey had an early softball game.  It was little chilly but girls had good game.  Kasey is concerned that she's not hitting very well.  We tried explaining that she needs to practice and she'll get back into it.  

That night kids went to grandparents, Greg went to nice dinner with the boys at Capitol Grill and I went out with friends to see Pink.  8 ladies and I went had dinner at Mi Cocina, rented a limo and went to Pink concert.  We all had a great time.  I had to good of a time, but we still had fun.

11/15 - I was on another trip this week but got back Friday afternoon.  I had decided to stay with team I was with Thursday night and get up really early to drive 2 hours to airport to fly home.   I got up, but didn't take into account needed to defrost the car before leaving.  My timing was pretty tight returning car, getting through security and on plane.   Sometimes small airports are a really good thing.   I scheduled family pictures for us at Penney's.  It ended up being a good shoot for us and had fun.  Of course Greg would rather poke himself in the eye than get family pictures, but he hung in there.

11/14 - Kasey had another softball game tonight.  They played a team that was able to hit better than before.   At least is wasn't as cold for them as Tuesday.

11/12 - Kasey had softball game.  It was in the 40s so all the girls had coats, hats and gloves on.   Kasey got an out at First base and was pretty excited

11/8 - We headed down to College Station for game.  Greg and kids came to pick me up at work and then we headed down to College Station.  We went straight to Ninfas for some dinner.  Then we went back to Cory's house to get kids ready for bed.   Greg and I just hung out and had few beers at the house.  Kids came in early as usual the next morning.  We had some muffins and bananas for breakfast.   We all got showered and ready and headed to the Chicken.   We got there before 11 and got a table just barely.   Landon got some dominoes to play with.  We got some food and drinks.
 Doug's Brother Jeff was there with his girlfriend.

Dave arrived in town and we headed to the game.  A&M won, and we all decided to drive home after the game.  We got some Chick Fil A, put kids in pajamas and headed home.

11/4 - This week starts 3 weeks of work travel for me.   I'm headed to Phoenix Arizona for day and a half, Thief River Falls, Minnesota for few days, and Louisville, KY for few days.  Then of course its Thanksgiving and Kaseys Birthday.  It's going to be a busy tired month.

11/2 - Landon had baseball tournament.   The boys played hard, but weren't able to win games.  In one of the games Landon got an inpark home run.   He had pretty good hit and other team had some errors but we'll call it an in park home run.   He also got a few outs at 3rd base.   We were in the stands with blankets.

October Updates

10/31 - Fun Halloween.  Kasey was a red Princess, Landon was Johnny football and got to borrow hockey shoulder pads which was great.  Greg got pizza from Durkins and we met up with neighbors for dinner and drinks before pictures and trick or treating.    In past years we've gone around our block and that was great.  This year with kids getting older.  They ran from house to house.  Of course I was in heels and a dress because I didn't have time to change.  They went around our block and a little extra cul-de-sac.   Then we decided to keep going for a little while.   Kasey got to see her teacher who lives right by us, and few other kids have teacher in neighborhood so we went by their houses.  Then headed home.  Buckets full, wired from just few pieces of candy, but good times.

10/30 - I had kids try on Halloween costumes because I knew I'd be coming home straight from work for dinner with neighbors and trick or treating.  Kasey loved her princess costumer - We bought it to be ladybug girl, could have been a fairy, but she wanted it to be a princess.
Landon was Johnny Football.

10/28 - Busy day.  Worked from home in morning, shot video in Kasey's room all afternoon, helped Landon finish his pumpkin character project, made princess pumpkin with Kasey!

10/26 - Early A&M game so we had to get up and shower.  We grabbed some Shipley's for breakfast and went to our parking spot.  We met Dave and Tracy at  Tex Ags tailgate.  We had few drinks and got to see the studio they have there.  We took a picture since it is Doug's Birthday.

We started walking to Aggieland outfitters and saw some friends along the way.   Doug tried on maroon blazer as a funny.

We headed to the game.  Many people were late for this game for some reason.  Aggies started game well, had horrible 2nd quarter, then put it away in 3rd and 4th.  We will take the win!

10/25 - We decided to go down to College Station without the kids.  Greg took Kids and Patch to grandparents, got Doug and came to pick me up at work.  We drove down to College Station.  We went straight to Wings and More for a late dinner.  We headed to Northgate for some drinks.  We went to Duddleys and had some beer.  We headed back to the house about midnight.

10/20 - Kids and I went to the State Fair and to see Lion King with my mom today.  We had a blast.  We met and rode the train to the fair which worked out great.  We went in and had corny dogs, nachos and pictures with Tex to start it out.

Then we took the gondola ride from front of Midway to the back which was fun.  Landon and I went on fun roller coaster.  Landon wasn't to thrilled about it, I think he told Kasey afterwards that it wasn't that fun. Kasey really wanted to go on that one, but she wasn't tall enough.  She wasn't happy. Kids rode a few rides after that.  Kasey loved the roller coasters.  All 4 of us rode big Bear ride like tea cups.  It was fun, but we got dizzy.  Made me think of riding those rides as a kid.

Then we went to play some games.   Kids played balloon popping game and both won - I so remember doing that at Circus Circus.   Then we went to play the big water shooting game.   Kasey and I won and because several people were playing she got a pretty big stuffed animal.  She picked a bull dog :)  She was so excited.  We couldn't get a bigger one for Landon to win, but he won a few smaller ones.

Then we decided to eat a little.  Kids wanted ice cream so we sat and listened to some singers singing 80s music while kids made a mess with Ice Cream.   We all shared fried S'mores.  Then we had fried king ranch casserole and funnel cake - yum.

then it was time to head to the lion king which is awesome.  Landon really liked it, but Kasey lost interest pretty fast and asked me questions during the whole thing :)

Over all it was a great day.  The weather was perfect!

10/19 - We had to get up pretty early for a Saturday.  Alarm came on playing Bennie and the Jets which made me smile.  We got up, all of us got showers, got breakfast and we made lunch to take with us.   Kasey had 10am softball game.  It was a little chilly and Kasey probably needed more clothes on, but she survived.   Girls did pretty well in the morning.

We left immediately after the game.  Went home for use to change, let the dog out and head down to College Station.  We were on the road by 11:20am (A&M game was at 2:30pm).    We got into town, went potty, got snacks at the game, and got into our seats a few minutes before kickoff.  unfortunately the game didn't turn out so well.  We left at the end and headed back home.  We stopped on 2818 for gas and kids changed into their jammies.   Landon said he wasn't sleeping, but I think he was.  Kasey didn't want to go to sleep.

We went to pick Patch up on the way home.  Of course this woke up the kids.  Patch sat in my lap all the way home.

Kids went to bed.  Greg went to bed soon there after, and I had taken a nap in the car and needed to work so I was up til after 1am.

10/18 - We started off crazy weekend going to Landon's fall festival at his school.    All 4 grandparents came.  We started out in the gym with bounce houses for a while then headed to long line to get food.   While waiting in line I took the kids outside to play a few games.   They got to find a prize in hay stack & play ring toss with cowboy hats. They had BBQ this year which was fun.   After eating kids wanted to run around some more.  They had fun outside and at inside games, Got Ritas Ice then went back to the gym for more fun.

10/13 - Landon had a baseball tournament in North McKinney.  Of course his first game was at 8am so we had to get up really early to get out there.  It  was raining most of the day.   Boys didn't win the first game.  We weren't for sure when the 2nd game was.  We came back at 11:45, and then found out our game was at 2pm.   Greg and Landon went to bat some with the team.  Kasey and I hung out in car listening to music and Kasey pretending.

In Landon's 2nd game they didn't win, but they played hard.  They got several outs and several runs as well.  We were pretty excited since the team hasn't won any games or scored many runs

1012 -    Landon's alarm woke him up early so we got started early.   Landon and Greg went to cub scout pond clean up with the Pack.   Kasey had a birthday party to go to, and we weren't getting along to well this morning so Greg took a shower and offered to take her to the party.   That means Landon and I got to have lunch just the two of us.   He choose to go to Pluckers so we could watch some football.   He tried wings, and wasn't to thrilled, but he ate most of 4 of them.   We went to run a few errands and he asked if we could go to Toys r Us to look for legos for Christmas, so we went for a little while.  Of course now the only ones he wants are over $100.   The fun of having older kiddos.
After we all got home Greg and Landon went to watch his friends from school play baseball.   Usually when Greg watched them they don't win, but luckily they won today.

We decided to order pizza and stay in tonight.  The Aggies are on TV, but the kids have to go to bed since Landon has early baseball game in the morning.


10/11 - i went to physical therapy for the first time.   I get to start spending more time out of the boot - yea.  Probably do physical therapy for a few weeks and hopefully be done.

We all went to dinner at Mexigo, and then Kasey and I came home so she could get to bed.  Greg went with Landon, Mason and his dad to Allen Eagles football game.  Of course they got home late, but Landon had fun.


10/7 - Greg took Kasey shopping for some warmer clothes.   When she was trying them on Greg said she kept singing - I'm Sexy and I know it :)    I told Greg that wasn't my fault

10/5 - We were very lazy in the morning.  No aggie football, no kids sports.  We didn't even have breakfast.  We finally got up and got ready then headed to early lunch.  We went to fun little pizza place that makes individual pizzas.  They have one of the new fun drink things that you can get just about any kind of drink you want.

After that we came home and Landon and I headed to the Star Wars event at the library.   They had scavenger hunt, bowling, few other games and crafts to make cool paper bag puppets and finger print art.  We had fun.  Landon brought home a bag for Kasey to make (Princess Leah) and also Leah buns to wear on her head.

After that we went to a friends 4th birthday party.  It was set up like the state fair so there were fun games, snacks, tickets, and prizes.  Kids enjoyed it.  The most of the older kids ended up playing bouncy ball with Greg in the cul-de-sac.  They would bounce the ball back and forth and few times almost lost it or had to keep the kids from running in big street.   Everyone had a good time.
Then we came home, let Patch out and then went to dinner with Steiners and Doug.    We had fun.  Kids got to color, play with Elisabeth, dance, work on Gigem.   Of course they were up later than normal, but had a good time.  We also had some really good food and wine


10/4 - Landon had a friend birthday party so Greg and I took Kasey to Bavarian Grill for dinner.  Kids call it the train place because it has trains going along the ceiling.  They have great pretzel bread and beer and good German food.   Kasey was kind of in a mood, but she did pretty good.  We got home.  Greg got Kasey to bed and I went to pick up Landon at his party.  Got to hang out with some of the moms for little bit which is always fun.

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September Updates

9/29 - Greg got home at 2:30am from the charter flight so he was not excited when we woke him up at 9am.   Once we did get up, we decided to go to the Greek Festival.  We had some good food, drinks, kids got to make sand art, we got to see some Greek dancing.  I even saw an old High School friend Mike Eaton.  Good times.

We got some local honey, and some Gyros to bring home for dinner.

9/28 - Kasey had morning game.  Girls played a little older team and played well.  Kasey got a 2 hits from pitch and ran well.   No outs this week, but girls played pretty well.

We went to have early lunch at Elkas where we haven't been in a while.    Then we went home so Greg could shower and head to the airport.  He was heading to Arkansas on charter flight for the A&M game.   Greg and Doug went.  

There was storm coming and we wanted to go to the store.  After trying to get kids to go for a while telling them it was going to rain we finally left.  Of course it  was more than just rain it was a down poor that started while we were in the store.  We came out, I got the car to pick up the kids.  Landon says, if I had known it was going to rain this hard I would have gone earlier.  :)

Kids voted that we have Papa Murphy's  Pizza for dinner.  We went to pick it up and came home to cook for early dinner before the Aggie game.   We watched the game for little while and kids went to bed.

9/27 - Greg decided to take Landon and a few friends to the Allen Eagle High school football game.  The boys went to Mooyah for dinner and then the game.   They got some treats and stayed til half time since  the boys don't stay up to late yet.  They had a good time though.

Kasey and I went to have some Italian food and came home to hang out with patch before bed.

9/23 - Patch did great overnight in her house (what we call her crate).  

 Got my stitches out of my toe, and Dr said everything looked great.  I can start putting weight on it as it feels ok.  Of course it hurts to put pressure on it so I'm not doing much yet.

9/22 - Kids woke up at 6:25 and 6:40 - silly ones.  Grammy made us a good breakfast and kids cleaned up and played some more.   Gramps went to pick Greg up, and he went to get patch so Grammy and Gramps could meet her.  She did well and was really cute.

Greg had been in College Station, and didn't sleep great Sat night.  Greg had a very busy afternoon.  Took Kasey to BDay party, friend picked up Landon for BDay party, then Greg went to that party.  He came home and took Landon to cub scouts.  Kasey and I tried to make dinner and take care of patch which was interesting.   Kasey took her out, and we had trouble getting her back in.  I made simple dinner for the two of us on crutches.  Then puppy went pee and poop on the floor so I'm getting on the floor with crutches.      Kasey had to take a shower and she wanted me to make sure her hair was rinsed ok.  So I locked puppy and I in bedroom while she showered.  I'm sitting on the floor again.  The puppy gets under the bed to find plastic and several dryer sheets - of course i can't reach her very well.   It was a little stressful on me and Kasey to get puppy out of the bedroom. 

Then we were ok and read a book before boys came home and it was bedtime.  Patch got tired and laid down to rest :)

9/21 - Kasey was supposed to have softball game, but it was rained out.   Greg got us packed up and took us to Grammy and Gramps.  He was headed to College Station for A&M vs SMU so we are staying with Grammy and Gramps.    Kids are having fun playing, making dessert - Landon makes his own creations, & eating freebirds.

We got kids bath/shower early, ordered pizza and watched the Aggies beat SMU.

9/20 - Called Dr because my foot was tingling and had some numbness.  They moved my appointment up to Monday and say to keep it elevated and on ice as much as possible.

We went to Grandmas to celebrate aunt Cindy's birthday.   We've decided  we are going to get a puppy.  One was abandoned and has been at Pop's vet clinic for a little bit.  She's really cute.  mostly white with a black eye and little black on her ear.  We have decided to call her Patch.  We went through several names - Biscuit, Spot, Bulls Eye, Susie.  We think everyone has agreed on Patch.  She's about 2 months old so she's very puppy.  Kids and Patch got pretty tired chasing each other around the house.  Kids are really excited to get a puppy. 

They even say they will help feed her, give her water and make sure she goes out.

9/19 - Kasey and the Purple Pixies had their first game of the season.  It was pretty warm and muggy, but the girls played great.  Kasey got a hit from pitch and got an out.  The Pixies got 4 outs total including a stop from pitcher and throw to 1st.  Pretty good for 4-5 year olds.

9/16 - tried yesterday to get off Hydrocodone, after football weekend I was pretty sore.  I took it over night then this morning took some tylenol.  I will probably take more tonight.  I'm working from home as much as I can to reduce crutch walking.

9/15 - Landon had baseball game in colony at 9am.  We had to be there at 8;15am.   Kids got up and we headed out.   Landons team had tough time.  They are playing up above their level.  Landon had a good hit but got picked up quickly.  He also had several good stops at 3rd base.   We headed home after the game to really rest for the rest of the day.  I got to take a nap while Greg took kids to the pool, then we just hung out at the house

9/14 - We got up got showers for everyone and got ready to go.   We headed directly to the parking garage where we had a handicapped parking spot.  We found a spot near elevators, and with some space for us to set up chairs and eat some lunch.  Kids weren't thrilled, kept telling them that mommy breaking her toe messed up a lot of things.  After lunch we headed down to go potty and to get ready for long walk to to stadium.  I had to basically walk around 1/2 of the stadium to get to the elevator.  I went slow, we stopped in the middle, but we made it. 

They let me sit down when we go by the elevators.  We took the first elevators up to 3rd deck.   Everyone went potty and then kids and rested in the shade for a little bit on the stairs.  I was pretty tired physically I went up 17 stairs and then scooted down on my butt 5 rows.  Then I scooted over to our seats.  We were there early enough that I could take my time and not worry about others.

We got to watch good game even though we didn't win over Alabama.  We put up most points on them since Saben has been coach so that was good.  We stayed til most people were out so I could take my time. Everyone went potty again, then we took the elevators down with no line.  Then it was back around the stadium to parking garage.  I was pretty tired and had to stop a few times.   i got nervous when people got behind me. 

Kids kept making loud noises.  I think one of them said come on just walk once.   Maybe sometime they will understand :)

We finally made it back to the car.   We drove to chick fil a for some dinner and headed out of town.  Kids ate and pretty much fell asleep pretty fast.

9/13 - Landon got Knight of the week 2nd week of school.  We are so proud of him.

In morning went to Dr.  He said things looked good.  I have to stay off it for 2 weeks and then come back.  If I don't will likely have to have surgery again.  Don't want that.   I have boot, crutches and bandage on foot.    They had to cut up my toe a lot to get the really small pins in. He said the screws are that small but the tools aren't that small.  hopefully it will heal ok over time.  Toe looks good.

We basically picked Landon up from school and drove to College Station.  I sat in the back seat with my foot up, kids in very back watching movies and playing games and Greg driving :)

We got to College Station, had quick dinner at Taco Cabana.  We had issue getting into house we were staying in but ended up ok.  We called my aunt in Conroe to see if we could come stay there if we couldn't get in.  We finally got in.  Got the kids to bed.  The boys went out for a drink.

Kasey started crying upstairs.  i was downstairs staying off my foot trying to get her to come out and talk to me.  She kept crying.  So I crawled up stairs to see what was going on.  She had gotten sick all over.   So I'm hopping upstairs trying to get her in shower.  Tried waking Landon up, took an act of congress to get him to go get my phone downstairs to tell Greg to come home.  They had not even finished a beer.    I got her a shower, cleaned up a little bit hopping and crawling.  Got her some clothes she would wear and back down on the other end of blow up mattress.

Then I scooted back downstairs.  Guys got home, Greg cleaned up everything, did wash.  Good times.  Kasey was fine.

9/10 - It was surgery day for my toe.  I took Landon to school.  Gave him a heads up that I might be a little loopy in the afternoon because they were putting me to sleep during surgery.   He asked if it was the same as when he had surgery which it was.  I guess he remembers that.

Kasey's friend Joseph came to pick her up to take her to school so we could get to the hospital.   We met Grammy and Gramps there.  I got checked in and they took me back.   The nurse met us and she laughed at the description they had.  Something like fracture of left pinkie toe.   apparently it's pretty rare.

Everything got set up, all the nurses were great,  They did crutches (or crunches as Kasey calls them) training before surgery which I think was a good thing.   They did general anesthesia on me.  They started it and wheeled me back to the operating room.  I moved tables and was still awake for a little while looking around at lights and as they prepped for everything.  Next thing I remember is waking up in recovery.  I think it was about quarter til 1 when I woke up.  I got some ice and water and felt good.  No pain or sore throat.  I started feeling my foot a little bit so she recommended I get some pain medication.  I agreed.  Not to much longer they got me back to room I started in.  Dr had talked to Greg and my parents.  He said it was unique break.  He ended up putting in 2 tiny screws - 1 1/4 mm.  

I had to go pee, take first done of pain meds and wait 30 minutes.   After that we were free to go.   Greg went to get car and Mom and dad went with me to get to the car.

We headed home then.  Greg took Kasey to tball/softball practice and Janice stayed with Landon and I.   I was still doing pretty well.  I typically don't like taking any kind of drugs even Tylenol unless I really have to so taking Hydrocodone was not top of my list.  After several people on facebook saying that it's best to keep taking pain meds and stay on top of the pain because if it starts hurting its much harder to control.  Ok, I wasn't seeing crazy effects from medicine so I kept taking it like I should :)

The 4 of us had dinner at table together.   Kids got baths, we read a book, and then Greg got them to bed.

Greg and I watched US soccer team game against Mexico.  US won 2 to 0.  and then Honduras won as well so the US qualified for World Cup!  YEA 

9/8 - After another great night on air mattress, we got up, headed to Cracker barrell for a good breakfast before heading home. Kasey was pretty whiny so the waiter brought her a biscuit with apple butter.  I remember eating and loving apple butter as a little girl.  Yum! I was supposed to leave for Brazil, but didn't because of my foot.

on the way home, Greg drove, I napped, and kids watched movies, read and played games.  We were all pretty tired when we got home so we didn't do to much!

9/7 - of course after going to bed late, Kasey woke up about 6:20am in the morning.    We slowly got up, all of us got showers, had small breakfast then we headed out to the Chicken.   Kids played (without money) a shooting arcade game, Landon built things with dominoes, and then we played dominoes.   Good times.

After that we headed to do a little shopping off campus then headed to campus.  Greg dropped kids and I off near stadium and went to park because of my foot.  Kids and I went into bookstore.  We found inexpensive football helmet for Landon to wear for halloween.  He's going to be Johnny Football.  Kasey also got  a dress.

then we headed to the stadium.  We were pretty early and decided to go near the field to watch team going on field.  Landon was playing football in the grass with some older boys and Kasey was just playing around.  We got to see the team including Johnny Football.   Then we walked up to our seats for the game.

We also forgot all the rain gear we have and of course it rained almost first half of the game.   Of course that means the temp dropped about 20 degrees to like 82.  I will take light rain and 82 over 102 any day.  

kids did pretty good, but got a little restless wanting treats.   Aggies won and it was overall good game.  Both kids fell alseep in the car before we even left campus.  It was a night game so it was pretty late.

Doug was getting up early to head back for soccer game and Greg and I were tired so we just hung out at the house and had a few beers.

9/6 - No baseball or softball so we are heading to College Station for the weekend.  I worked from home Friday, we picked Landon up from school and left pretty quick from there.  We got into town, dropped our stuff where we are staying, and then headed to Wings N more for dinner.  One of our favorites, and it wasn't to long of a wait.   Afterwards, I took the kids back to get in bed, and Greg and Doug went to watch US soccer qualifier.

Kids were on air mattress together -  unfortunately we forgot several things on this trip like extra mattress, sleeping bags, contact solution etc.  At first they were ok, but after a few hours they started bugging each other and didn't want to sleep together.  What does this mean, Landon slept in the bed with Greg and I got to sleep on the air mattress with Kasey.  YEA

After I went to bed, Kasey curled up next to me which I thought was sweet.  At one point, she says "its to loud" referring to Greg's snoring :)  Made me laugh

9/3 - Greg and Landon rode bikes to school.  Greg let Landon ride home by himself as Greg drove in car.  

Today was Kasey's first day of PreK.  It's her last year of preschool.  Some of the other moms were crying.  We were excited for her and glad that she was comfortable to just go into class.  She has a few friends in her class and even more friends in stay and play.  She does Stay and Play until 2pm on T/Th so Greg can work those days and she will be able to take phonics.  We have told her about it and her summary is that they will teach her to read.  Will be interesting how quickly she picks up sounds and words.

She said she had a great day and liked her teacher.  She was very excited that she ate her whole lunch -she gets to have lunch when she goes to stay and play.

9/2 - We let Landon ride his bike around the block by himself.  Was a little nervous but he did great.  After that, we went over to Juan's and Marisa's for some Labor day swimming.  Kids had fun playing in their new pool with Doug.  We cooked out some burgers, brats and hot dogs

9/1 - Landon had morning baseball tournament game.  Team didn't do to well for some reason.  Landon wasn't hitting very well.  hopefully we can get the boys motivated to work together.

After tournament we came home for boys to shower and headed to lunch.

That afternoon Greg and I took kids to Grammy and Gramps to play and have dinner while Greg and I went to see End of the World.  We both thought it was really funny.   

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August Updates

8/31 - Landon had his first baseball tournament today.  We were playing 2 and 3 seeds.  Our team had tough time and it was over 100 degrees.  Landon made a few good plays, got few hits, but didn't seem to into it.  Not sure if it was the heat or something else.

Grammy, Gramps & Grandma were there for the games as well.  We all stuck it out.   Kasey and Grandma got snow cones to try and cool down some.  Kasey really liked that.

Afterwards, we came home and headed to the pool after a hot day of baseball.  We just went for a little while because Kssey was losing it.

We came home to shower, get some dinner and then to watch some Aggie football.  We watched the first 1/2 as a family which was fun.

8/30 - What an evening.  Greg was getting ready to make hamburgers at home (Yum) and I was getting home from work doing something in my closet while kids were getting showers.  As I was coming out of my closet I tripped on some clothes at the door.  I fell out of the room onto my counter and bumped my foot into hard trashcan right there.  I didn't think to much of it, but then I looked down at my foot.  My left pinky toe was pointing left which isn't normal.  So I called to Greg.

It didn't hurt that bad, but I was getting a little light headed.   Greg called his mom (who used to be a nurse).  She came up to get kits dinner and in bed.  Greg took me to the emergency room (based on recommendation from facebook friends to do that instead of Care Now).   We took a bunch of stuff in case we were there for a while.

We got there, checked in.  Then they did assessment, the lady couldn't seem to see which toe or what issue was.  She also asked me in front of Greg if there was any abuse at home.  Obviously there isn't, but not really a valid question if you are asking in front of the person that would likely be doing that.   Same lady was asking if my ankle was ok - I said no it's just my toe.

We got to the room and nurse came in - similar thing, which toe is it.  Really it was pretty obvious.    I went to get Xrays, and then finally the PA came in.  She saw right away what the issue was.  She wanted it to be dislocated so she could pull it back in place.   She came in a little later to say it was broken.   We needed to tape it up and I needed to go to Pediatrist next week.  The PA said it was broken almost all the way through (it was my left pinkie toe).   I asked her why it wasn't hurting more if it was broken.  She didn't know.  They brought me a shoe to wear.   

Greg and I joked it was date night.  Football on TV.  I was working on PTA stuff and Greg was playing Candy Crush :)

We went home to have our hamburgers and watch some football.

8/29 - Landon lost his 5th tooth today.  It had been loose and the permanent tooth was already coming in behind it.   He had just lost it and I called home to say traffic was bad.   Good timing.

He got a coin dollar again and seemed pretty happen with that. Although he joked that night that maybe he would bet $100 for it.  Luckily he retracted that himself :)

8/25 - We had pretty lazy morning.  I went to get some Sonic breakfast, and then kids and I watched Star Wars IV.  Landon asked to see it and who am I to deny the boy Star Wars.  He had seen that one before but liked it.   We finally got up after that to go eat some lunch.

We are hanging this afternoon getting some stuff done and kids are playing xbox on hot last day of summer.

8/24 - We had pretty relaxing day.   I got up to go work out, then met Greg and the kids at the park for some baseball/softball practice.   We all got showered and ready and headed to lunch. We then went to Target and got way more than what we went in for...  We went to Elkas which we haven't been to in a little while.  Greg and the kids went to a fun birthday party in the afternoon while I did ton of laundry and cleaned up at the house - Yea!

Greg went to dinner and FC Dallas game with Doug so kids and I went to Kelly's for dinner.  We sat on the patio. Even though it was hot outside they had it covered with fans so it wasn't bad.   There was a rain cloud close by and we could smell the rain from the patio.  We had good dinner.  Then we headed home, kids got ready for bed while I put up even more clothes and then we watched a little bit of the Cowboy game before bed.

I ended up working that evening and watching Crazy, Stupid Love which is a cute movie.

8/23 - After work I got to go to dinner with some old friends that I used to work with.  It was fun to catch up and see everyone.  I am the only one still working at TI.

8/18 - Greg gave Kasey one of my old phones with buttons.  She loves it.  It got taken away because she wasn't listening.  She was crushed.  Oh so early to be so dependent on a phone.

We went to moms for lunch and play time.  We had tacos - yum!!!   Kids had fun playing and entertaining all of us.  Kasey was showing her imagination and Landon had fun changing up and playing with a plane with track. Kasey was pretending she had a house which she gave us keys for to come in.  We had to text her before we came over. We had good food again, and fun chatting.  Good times spending time with family!

On the way home Kasey and I were texting each other from her fake phone.  We had to say the beep then tell each other what the message said, but it was funny!

Then we went to neighbors for pool birthday party which was fun as well.

8/17 - Landon had cub scout meeting.  It was at our neighbors house and the boys got to do swimming for belt loops.  The boys had fun and Kasey got to go play as well which was fun.   

That night we went Solis' house with lots of Zorbas to talk about World Cup plans.   Greg will do some planning when it's sports related :)

8/16 - Aunt Mary was in town.  She got to see Kasey at her swim lessons, and then she came with my parents to our house for dinner.  Greg made chicken enchiladas, I made brussel sprouts and guacamole.  We had some good wine, fun discussions and great food.  Grammy made Hershey bar pie and yummy cobbler with cherries and pineapple.

After dinner we watched some videos of the kids - Kasey dancing, Landon a little soccer and baseball, and little Kasey playing softball.   We had a good time. 

I then went to friends house to watch Mamma Mia which is always fun.

8/10 - We headed home today.  We got up and headed to Kings Beach for breakfast.  We had to wait a little while, but it was worth it.   Yum!  Then we headed back to get packed up and hang out a bit.   We checked out and went to hang out in the village for a little bit.  Kids were running around some which was good since they would be sitting on a plane for 3 hours.   We headed to the airport, ate some lunch, and then went to get on plane.  Kids were excited but tired.   Grammy and Gramps brought our car to the airport.  They got to hear the kids story from the trip while Greg got luggage. Kids got to bed after 9 Dallas time which ended up being about the time they had been going to bed California time.   Of course one of the smoke detectors was beeping when we got home.   We had a great time, but it's good to be home and sleep in our own beds.

8/9 - After some breakfast and bunco at the condo we decided to head out and go Geocaching for the first time.   We got GPS, a map and gondola tickets and we were off.  Unfortunately it took us about 2 hours (including stopping to eat lunch we brought) to find our first treasure.  After that we found another 8 treasures in a little over an 2 hours and kids had a great time finding them, holding the GPS and then taking a trinket and leaving a trinket.  We also picked up trash along the way to clean up.  Kasey told us over and over how she found the treasures she found (even though we usually saw them first, she was so excited when we let her speak up that she found it first).   Other than stopping for lunch and a break for ice cream and a drink we pretty much walked/hiked from 11-3.   

When we got back to the village we decided to play putt putt for the new set up they had.  It was a little strange, but kids liked it.   As we finished the course it was just after the new Planes movie had started that was right there.  We decided to relax some and go see the flick.

After the movie we headed to restaurant in the village for dinner.  Somehow the kids still had quite a bit of energy.  I think we all had a fun day, but we were all pretty tired.

8/8 - we had a fun day today. The kids loved floating down the river so we did it again.  It  was cooler today so we were thinking we'd not get in the water, but that didn't last.  The kids decided they wanted to stop and get in the water.  They ended up walking down the shore, going in the water and letting the river float them down to us. 

Landon helped Kasey do this too and they had a great time.  They both helped rowing the boat.  We go to feed ducks - it was funny to watch them come to the boat.  Some of them would fly in to get to the boat.   We got tshirts for all of us since we had so much fun floating the river.  We had lunch and little place at the bus drop of which was good.   

Then we headed to the beach for a little while.  We went to a beach we had not seen before which had several rocks on beach, but was still nice.  The kids went straight for the water.  They built a volcano on the beach.   Both kids were swimming like fish in the water.  Greg and i commented that we would never have let Landon swim on his own when he was 4, but Kasey was doing great.

It is Thursday so we planned on going to Truckee Thursday.  We went back to the condo showered and got ready.  Kids were pretty tired.   Truckee Thursday is a small down event where they have food, music, crafts and products to sell.   We had some good food, good pies and chocolate covered pineapple (Kasey's choice) for dessert.  Kids were pretty tired, Kasey threw a fit on the way out, so we came home to get kids to bed.

8/7 - We had a lazy morning this morning.  Had some breakfast and decided to go for a little hike right by our condo.  The kids had fun climbing rocks, being kind of the world, finding lizards and big pine cones.  They had a good time.  Then we got ready and headed to Kings Beach.

We had lunch at Char Pit - little burger place.  Then we went to do some putt putt.  We went 38 holes which Landon loved it.  Kasey was getting little tired by the end.

Then we headed to the beach for a little while.  Kids went straight in the water which is pretty chilly but they still wanted to go out in the water and play in the waves (which are much smaller than we had in Florida last year).   When kids got out of the water they started playing in the sand building volcanoes and other stuff.   they were having a good time.   

We went to clean sand off our feet.  Kasey helped Greg buckle his sandals.  He said are you paying me back for all the times I helped you with your shoes.  Kasey then said that will be $16 please.

We decided we were just going to eat dinner in.  We went to store to get a few things.  Got back to condo, opened the wine, everyone got showers then Greg and Kasey cooked steaks on the grill, Kasey helped me make salad, Landon set the table and we all had special drinks in wine glasses - Kasey and Landon go flavored milk and Greg and I got some wine.  We had good dinner.

After dinner we played some bunco.  Always fun for us to play together.   I guess the kids have seen a little Caesars pizza commercial because Kasey kept saying Pizza Pizza.  Landon, Kasey and I had 3 way tie (I think I won because 2 of my wins were buncos :)).   We were using Landon's blue elephant as the pink dice and were teasing him that he needed to win in back from Kasey to get to sleep with it.  

Good times!

8/6 - We had another fun day in Tahoe.   We got up had kind of lazy morning, then we got ready to go rafting.   We went down Truckee river - about 5 miles and took us about 2 - 2 1/2 hours to go down.  That included stopping to eat lunch we brought and letting the kids out a few times to play.  The water was pretty cool, but was still fun. Of course the kids wanted to help paddle.  There were a few areas of small rapids, which the kids really enjoyed.  They both thought it was awesome and had fun.  We all had a good time.

Then they bused us back to the car.  We got picture of the 4 of us, and decided we wanted some ice cream as a snack.    

Then we headed by grocery store for few things, We headed back to drop some things off and went to the pool for a little while.  Of course the kids wanted to go between the huge Jacuzzi and the pool.  Then we headed back for all of us to shower so we could go to dinner.  We went to Jasons at Kings beach which was really good.  We are all pretty tired, but had a good day.

8/5 - Of course kids got up about 6am.   I actually got to sleep until about 6:45 (after going to bed about 10:40) which is quite a bit of time for me.  Greg made us french toast which was good.  Of course Kasey complained as she has been doing round food.

We got ready to go and headed to the mountain for some hiking.   Kasey wasn't to sure. The first gondola we went on was enclosed so it was fun for everyone. the second one was open and basically a bench to sent on.  Kasey was pretty scared, asked me to make sure I was holding her, but then later she was excited about goin back down on it.  We had to go in enclosed things back on both sections.

We went hiking for about 20-30 minutes and then kids were pretty ready to go back.  We walked back and had some lunch at mid mountain.  Then we headed down.

In village Greg got some shoes, and Landon decided he wanted to play ultimate Frisbee.     Of course Greg wanted to play too.  Kasey on the the other had was tellking me all about her kids - there are 3.  16, 7, and preschooler.  Their names are Greg, Landon and LK.  she's pretty funny and will tell you all kinds of details about them.

We spent  the afternoon on boat on lake Tahoe.   We went on cruise.  Kids were a little restless at first, but both ended up having fun.  They got drinks on the boat, and Landon got to drive the boat at the end. Kasey says she didn't have fun becuase she was the only one who had to wear life vest.  She would have been ok, but we wanted to make sure.

Then we went to dinner nearby at place that a friend recommended to me.  Great view, good food and nice atmosphere.  What more can you ask for.

We were all pretty tired at the end of the day.

8/4 - We flew out today for our family vacation.   We headed to Reno/Lake Tahoe.   Flights were pretty good. kids got to watch movie along the way.  Funny to see the kids not have patience.  I have grown to have patience with traveling because I have been so many times.   

Once we got to Reno, we picked up car (they wanted to give us a Ford Taurus instead of SUV we paid for.   We ended up with an explorer which worked out just fine.   We headed to place we are staying.  Landon asked if they could play on ipads in the car.  We told the kids to enjoy the scenery and no ipads.  We don't have mountains in Texas, and its cool to see the river and old tracks they have on the drive.

We were sort of trying to stay on Dallas time.  So we went to Safeway for groceries, walked on lake beach for few minutes and headed to cabin we are staying in.  Kasey started out saying she wanted to go home then got excited about our car and even the place we were staying.  There are many steps to go up and we were all carrying stuff up.  

We decided to have a dinner near by and try to get kids to bed earlier.  We went to local pizza place which was good.  Tried to get kids in bed early, but they didn't go to sleep until 7:30ish.    Greg and I stayed up chilling and watching movie.

8/1 - Been bit crazy.  Landon is 7 and we're already seeing drama with sports.  His team he played on in the spring doesn't play in the fall, but he wanted to play baseball. Landon tried out for 3 teams that were all more competitive than what he has been playing.  We made decision to put him in club team called Fury.  The team is based out of Wylie so its a bit of drive for practice, but we think that longer term this is the right fit for Landon and us.  Hopefully it will work out well.  He'll play in 5 tournaments this fall which of course several of them conflict with A&M football so we'll have to figure out how to handle that....