Monday, September 30, 2013
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.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
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....
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
July updates
7/25 - What a day! Welcome home to us. Our water heater went out in the morning and was leaking into Greg's closet. I had a training class and missed Kaseys dance performance at her camp - but Greg and Grammy got to go and record it. She did really well doing Ballet, Jazz and Tap. she likde tap the best. Landon had a tryout for baseball team - he's a little rusty and there are 8 kids trying for 3 spots so we'll see. Later in the day Kasey wasn't feeling to well in the car, and after dinner she was almost screaming that her ear hurt. Greg was at home waiting for plumber, I took Landon to friends to take a shower. Then came home got Kasey to take her to Acute Kids - of course she had ear infection. She was saying she couldn't handle it anymore - I think it was really hurting her. We got medicine right before the pharmacy closed and got her to settle down a little to go so sleep. The Dr said to put a few drops of olive oil in her ear to coat it and help.
7/24 - It was time to go home. We got up, had breakfast outside one more time, and headed out to the airport. By the time we got there, returned the car and got through security we figured we better eat some lunch. We decide salad, sandwich and a cold beer sounded good.
When we landed in town we got message that one of the ladies in the neighborhood had broken her arm and couldn't go to Bunco that night. I said I would get kids to bed and step in to help out :)
We got home and kids told us about their week. It was getting late, and I was getting texts asking if I was close :). Greg got the kids to bed and I headed to bunco. Always fun! I got 9 Druncos (has nothing to do with being drunk :))
7/23 - We got up in the morning had breakfast at 8:30am and headed out for the day. We first went to Chateau Montelena which is the winery that first put California wine on the map. They beat France and European wineries in a blind taste test twice in 1976 - Cool movie based on this called Bottle Shock. They won with Chardonney, but later started winning with Cabs. They have about 20 years that their cabs have been getting 90+ ratings which is pretty good. We joined the futures wine club.
After that we headed to Taylors Refresher (now called Gott's) for good burger for lunch. Then we headed to Spring mountain. We tried a new one called Terra Valentine - small winery with nice view. They had a nice Sangiovese blend that we liked and of course cabs.
Then we headed to another favorite Spring Mountain. We were doing Estate tasting with 2 other couples - one from Switzerland and one from somewhere in US. They were already wine club members. They loved the 2001 Cab. So we tasted 2009, 2007 Ellivette (Their best wine), 2005 Cab, and then 2001 Cab. They were all great. So the other couples talked them into opening a 2001 Elivette and an 1979 Cab. All of them were great, and it was nice to sit on the property relax and drink a 1979 bottle of wine.
We headed back to the hotel after that. There was a winemaker and his wife there serving wine and chatting. It's always interesting meeting people from different perspectives and actually talking to the winemaker himself.
We had a little later dinner that night, but it was walking distance so it was great. We ate at Bistro Jeanty which is French. We'd been sharing more during the week and didn't so much that night. By the time dinner was over we were way done - stuffed, tired, and about ready to go home. don't get me wrong Napa is always a wonderful trip!
7/22 - I actually went to bed before midnight - which was late Central time, but still. We got up and showered, went to breakfast at our hotel. then we had some time because our first appointment wasn't until 11:30. We just relaxed for a while - working on blog and listening to Pandora. Then we headed out for the day. We started at Nickel and Nickel which was a previous favorite. Then we ate a quick lunch from grocery deli and headed to Allora another favorite that we are part of their wine club. After that we headed back to hotel to rest and talk to the kids. We had early dinner at 5:30 at Bottega - one of my favorites, and then we got some dessert at Bouchon and headed back with some wine left. We got to taste a little at hotel, and then relax for the evening.
we spent some more time relaxing in the jacuzzi after dinner.
7/21 - We woke up decided not to walk 10-15 minutes in the cold for breakfast, and so we just got ready and headed out. We found a place in Napa to have breakfast. We had to wait for a while, sat at a community table, but the breakfast was good and made us ready for our first day of wine tasting.
That day we started tasting at Reynolds - we'd been there before and really liked their sister label Naughty. We got to sit outside in great weather and have tasting. We tasted about 8 different wines there. Then we stopped at Trefethen which was ok. They had a Rose called Sin that I really liked. Then we headed to Miner for tasting.
This was recommended by friend from high school and we liked most of the wines which is always fun! After that we checked into hotel, changed and headed back out. The end of the day we went to Quintessa where they make 1 wine each year. It's very high end, but good wine and fun experience.
We ended the day at Restaurant called Press which is steak house that Greg wanted to try. Great Oysters, amazing bread, we brought our own wine, and steaks were good too.
We had an outdoor private patio and jacuzzi which we enjoyed. This night we were sitting out there relaxing and a momma raccoon and her 3 babies came walking along our fence trying to jump on our patio. we were thinking that wasn't a very good idea. We eventually scared them away, but our patio wasn't to relaxing after that :)
7/20 - Today was Greg's birthday. Kids went to Greg still in bed told him happy birthday and gave him a hug. Kids and I got up to make breakfast. We made biscuits (kids did most of it), I made cheese eggs and sausage. We all ate breakfast in bed. Of course Kasey made a mess, but it was still fun.
We gave Greg his gifts. New shirt and shorts, and homemade cards from kids. Kasey had made a cake in her cooking camp the day before so we used that as Greg's cake. Landon wanted a yellow candle because he thought daddy liked that color (we aren't sure where he got that from, but nice thinking). We lit the candle and sang to him. Happy birthday didn't get all the way out, Kasey started singing you smell like a monkey before the end of the song. It was funny and I got it on video.
Greg and I were leaving that day for trip to Napa so we all got ready. Took Kasey to Grandma's, we got a cute picture of the 4 of us. Kasey got to go see Turbo movie before the rest of us did.
We took Landon to Grammy and Gramps. Landon and Grammy had an appointment at Legoland so Gramps took us to the airport. Landon had a great time, he built a car that won 3 times. He got to see the new Star Wars exhibit which he liked as well.
Greg and I flew to San Francisco. We spent the night there before heading to Napa. We were supposed to meet up with Greg's cousin but their little girl woke up from nap with 102 so we did dinner on our own. We found a place in back alley that had Catalyn food (Spanish Tapas) which we love. We got some homemade Sangria, some great food, and then finished up with a scotch. Good times.
After that we went to grab water and back to the room for a bit. We had reservations at Press Club (wine bar in the city which one of my high school friends owns). We got there a little early. They had some bubbly for Greg and I since it was his birthday. Then we ordered a few different wine flights. We ended up with 3 because he brought us one that wasn't right. We had a great time talking and trying different wines.
7/16 - Kasey didn't want to go to sleep so I went up to get her in bed. She asked if i was drinking Sangria and watching soccer game. I told her no, we were drinking beer and watching soccer game. She told me that Landon asked earlier if he could try a coke. Then Kasey told him mommy says we have to try everything. Greg got out of it somehow.
7/14 - Since kids were at grandparents, I ended up sleeping until almost 10am. Which of course made us late to lunch to celebrate Gramp's birthday. We went to BJs for lunch to celebrate. Had a beer, good food and yummy pizookie (cookie cake with ice cream) - Yum. Then we went back to Grammy and gramps house to hang out for a while. We left from there for kids and I to go see Despicable me 2. Cute movie!
7/13 - We started the day at birthday party at the pool. Kids had fun in deep end and shallow end. for a little while I was treading water and kids were jumping in swimming to me. not sure they understood why I couldn't hold them in 10 feet of water. We had a good time.
We tried to go see movie in afternoon, but kids started melting down so we didn't. I took kids to Grammy/Gramps to spend the night. Greg and I went to surprise birthday party for Lyn, and then he went to FC Dallas game with Doug. We had fun at Lyns' party. it was several couples hanging out having a few drinks and cake to celebrate. Eventually the guys sat down and us ladies were standing up laughing and drinking margaritas. We had good time!
7/12 - Greg's grandfathers friend in Odessa passed this week so Greg and his dad were going to day trip Odessa for the funeral. That makes for a long time. Ended up being relaxing day for me. I took the kids to camp, relaxed in the morning, got to have some of Greg's enchiladas for lunch, caught up a little TV, and went to get kids at camp.
7/11 - I came home from China. I was 6 flights in 6 days and all of them were delayed. Not really wanting to fly with Delta anymore... Our flight from China to Detroit was over an hour late, and so we had to run through customers and across the airport to get to our connecting gate. We got on the plane in time, then DFW closed for weather so we sat on the tarmac for a while. We ended up in Dallas even a little early - which in Dallas always means you wait on the tarmac longer. It was great to get home.
7/10 - Today was crazy day for China trip. We had to train to a different city. We left the hotel at 6:15am, took a car about an hour to train station, took an hour train to Hangzhou, then had car take us about 40 minutes to partner location. We had meetings then headed to lunch. It was about 100 degrees outside. Our partner wanted to go to good restaurant for lunch which was about 10 minute walk. In 100 degrees we were sweating (at least I was) by the time we got there. We had nice lunch. Then headed back in taxi for train station, had to wait for while for train, took train back, and looking to see what happens to him next :) Then we got car from train station.
Overall we were gone about 12 hours, and about 8 hours of that were traveling. We felt gross and tired when we got back.
7/9 - Had to get up early to fly to Shanghai. We then had some meetings in the afternoon in the office.
7/7 - Kids went roller skating for first time at friend Bday party. Landon had fun with it. Apparently Kasey did some screaming but liked it once she got the hang of it.
7/6 - I took quick trip to Taiwan and China for work. Had to leave Saturday morning. I got to spend the night at mom and dads Friday so they could take me to airport on Saturday morning. We had about 24 hours of travel to get to Taipei. My colleague booked the flights so we ended up with weird route and on Delta (she was going for lowest cost). All 3 of our flights were late, but we made it to the hotel just fine. We had a car pick us up at the airport and take us to hotel. He had wifi in his car which was nice. We stayed at Far Eastern which is one of my favorite hotels in the world. We had breakfast with few of the local guys that had worked for me in Dallas. Then we had meetings with partner. They took us to dumpling restaurant in what until about a month ago was the latest building in Asia (called 101 building). Lunch was great. We had meetings in the afternoon til about 6:30.
Then our partner including the CEO and Chairman took several of us to dinner at a nice restaurant. We had a 10 course dinner including prawns, scallops, lamb, chicken, beef etc. Food was great, but it was ton of food
While I was flying to China Greg and kids got to go to neighborhood 4th of July party and birthday party - Kasey got to go off diving board for first time. She did well swimming in deep pool.
7/5 - I actually got up to work out at 6am. Even though I was out on Friday. I took donuts home for everyone :) we went to the pool to meet one of new neighbors and the cracknells. We had good time kids playing in pool and adults talking.
Then we grabbed quick lunch. In the afternoon Greg took K to swim and Landon and I ran a few errands.
We ended up at dinner at Zorbas which is great. Then Greg and kids took me to my parents to spend the night since I had early flight on 6/12.
7/4 - we had lazy day to start off. Then I got up to go get kids. We ended up having burgers and pigs in blanket with my parents which was great 4th of July lunch. We hung out, took little naps in the afternoon, and then headed up to FC DAllas game. We had dinner at Durkins then went to stadium. WE parked so we could get out of the parking lot easily. the game was 0 to 0. Not sure Landon is quite there for non scoring game yet. AFter the game, we got to see fireworks from our car, and we left a little early to get the kids home since they didn't start before 10pm
7/3 - Landon had his first slumber party. He wen to Maxum Hughes house for birthday party and slumber party. The boys stayed up til about 11:15, and of course Landon woke up about 6:45pm. Boys seemed to have fun playing in the pool. Landon really liked the diving board and finding where food was. While Landon was doing that Kasey was at Grammy and Gramps house spending the night. Greg and I went to Brookhaven with Steiners and another couple friend. We had some dinner, hung out, and then watched Kaboom town in Addison from the golf course which was fun.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
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