My parents are so hard to buy gifts for! JD had a great idea to take my Dad to a Dallas Cowboys game when they came here to play the Kansas City Chiefs in KS City! After all, how often are we stationed this close to a major league football team? The tickets to the game were SO hard to get as they were super expensive, and when JD was first trying to purchase them, he would also have to purchase tickets to another game as well! So JD tried to buy the tickets on Ebay and lost almost every single bid! It was SO crazy! A couple of hundred dollars later, JD bought the tickets to the Cowboys game. My mom flew into KS City the Thursday before the game to spend some extra time with the kids, and my dad flew in the day before the game. My mom, the kids, and I had a great time shopping, getting Scott David's picture made, seeing "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs", and this was the time that my mom got to go on Grace's field trip to the fire station with her and watch Grace cheer for 10 minutes at her football game (it was SO cold and the little cheerleaders did not last long!). Well guess what?! JD got sick with strep throat a few days before the game! After all the hassle and trouble of buying the tickets and having my parents fly in, he was sick in bed for a few days before the game and was dead set that he was not going to go to the game.....neither my mom nor I wanted to go freeze our booties off at the game with my Dad! I forced JD to go to the doctor and after having some heavy duty antibiotics in his system, he was a trooper and went to the game (That weekend it was freezing here in Kansas with the high temperatures in the high 30's!). All I can is thank God for miracle drugs as the men had a great time at the game, and this seems to be the Dallas Cowboys turning point for a more positive football season!
JD and I have not been to a Texas Aggie football game since we were in college. Some of our dear friends from our Fort Irwin days, The Thomas Family, (their daughter, Mackenzie, was Grace's best friend in CA) are Kansas State alumni and K-State football fanatics! :) When were lived in CA, I remember them flying back to KS to go to K-State football games. They are now stationed in OK, and we thought it would be fantastic to all meet up and go to the A&M/K-State football game in Manhattan, KS. We had a great time! The game was not until 6pm so we drove in earlier that day (Manhattan is a little over 2 hours away from Fort Leavenworth) and took Mackenzie to dinner with us so Grace and Mac could catch up on old times! :) We all sat together at the game and it was so nice to see some old friends and catch up! Of course Grace was on Cloud 9, and I think it was so surreal for her to see Mackenzie in person. They have been writing letter back and forth for the past 1.5 years, and I'm not sure Grace ever thought the day would come that she would actually get to see Mackenzie again. Needless to say we all had a blast (even if Texas A&M got KILLED!!), and we're hoping to get to the girls together again while we're here in KS this year.
