I'm not afraid...

Sooo I was just dozing off last night and I heard Kobe crying. I went to his room and he was sitting up in his bed. I walked over to him and asks whats wrong. He lays back down and mumbles something so I cover him up and ask him what he said.. He snuggles in his blanket and says "I can't find 'Q'.." I said the letter Q? He said "Yeh he was right there, now he isn't"... I laughed because that is NOT what I thought he was crying about lol.. So I said "check by R, he might be there" Kobe rolls over and says "ok" and goes to sleep lol. Kobe has always acted out dreams.. ever since he was little.. But they were nightmares. The Doctor called them "Night Terrors" this was different for once.. he wasn't scared, he just couldn't find his letter "Q" lol. I was always told not to wake him while he is in the sleep mode. Just to make sure he didn't get hurt. I've recently figured out that he does that when he has to go potty. Its like he wakes up because he has to go but doesn't fully wake up... Hopefully he'll grow out of that.

Ever heard Eminem's Song "I'm not afraid"? Well I recently got a new Mp3 player since ours was left/stolen.. well J had a few songs on his computer, That being one of them. Which if you know J you would think that's odd since he is 100% country.. but anyways.. I put it on the Mp3 player well Kobe already liked that song because I used to be into Eminem. Now every morning that's what we have to listen to on the way to school.. Does this mean my 5 year old is going to be a "thuglet"? HAHAHA that's a little thug in case you were wondering lol

Much of a change?

Preschool 2010   

                     Kindergarten 2011

I can't tell if there is much difference in his looks or not. But I DO know he is a cutie pie! I love this kiddo!

Labor Day weekend...

Every Labor Day my whole family goes camping and dad always  has a "fish fry" at the camp ground. My Grandparents always come out and eat with us. We have a good time. The kids ride their bikes all over the campground love every minute of it. Although J, Kobe and I didn't "camp" over night.. we went home every night because we didn't have a tent this year. A couple who was camping next to my parents site have an old school bus that they turned into a camper.. Redneck?! Yes. very!.. but guess what.. Jason and I are wanting to do that. We found one for $1,000. I am engaged to the King of Rednecks and I love every minute of it and every inch of him lol. We went inside the couples "camper" aka bus.. and it was cool..  and we were "sold" lol

Anyways Dad fried fish, Adam managed the grill for "non-fish eaters" aka Mom and Anna lol, I made homemade Hush Puppies, and Amanda had the baked beans going, Grandma made homemade potato salad.. it was yummy...

Here are some pics of us all after the fish fry..

 Pic above is Luke and Jason .. pic below is Adam, Dad, and Josh

 Left to right: Anna, Amanda and Mom

 Monday evening we were going to have a cook out and invite everyone over but we figured all the campers would be pooped so we just had our own little cook out.. I marinated chicken breasts in "Caribbean jerk" marinade, and we took veggies and marinated them in Italian Dressing, wrapped them up in foil and grilled them too.. they were SO yummy.. this is something Jason's always done.. I've never had them before. We took Zucchini (yes we still are eating that stuff lol) yellow squash, onion, green pepper, and cherry tomatoes.. cut them up put them in a big ol bowl and let them sit drenched in Italian dressing all day.

 For dessert I made homemade Apple Crisp. Jason was craving it, so we found a recipe in my Great Grandma's cook book I had received when she had passed... the pics doesn't do it justice for how it taste. It was scrumpdilicious!!! I'll post the recipe soon...

Good Bye August!

My son always seems to amaze me.

He was quiet in his room the other day, for Kobe that usually (not always) means he's up to no good. I walked in his room to find him sitting at his desk writing. He was writing sentence

 from a book of his. So I quietly backed out into the hallway and snapped a pic with my cell before he could see me :)

 Another thing he did... was come out to Jason and I and showed us his "Math" I was shocked.. I mean I've done math problems with him on his Magnadoodle. But never has he wrote out the math problem his self and answered them.. He's a smart cookie for 5 :)

 This could possibly be "child abuse" LOL making your 5 yr old open the can of cresants because I'M too big of a chicken LOL Seriously that is one of the things I hate the most.. its the opening canned biscuits and knowing its going to POP open and scare the pee wadden outta ya LOL Kobe loves doing it LOL so he's my biscuit opener :)

J made me this at work one day when he had free time.. He is a welder and made this heart out of scrap metal :) I thought it was sooooo sweet that he thought of my enough to make something like this.. I LOVE it :)

 We went over to Lowe's the other morning.. I was behind this at the stop light.. its a picture of the butt of a horse and then under the pic says "There is one in every group" aka Horse's Ass LOL I thought it was funny.. not sure why they chose to put it on their NICE motorcycle storage trailer but whatever... lol

Stop Light 101

Green light means - Go.

Yellow Light mean- Caution / Slow Down.

Red Light means- Stop.

Well... same goes for the little car in Kobe's class room. All the kiddos have a car with their name on it. If they are good all day they get to stay on green. If not they move to Yellow for a warning. Then Red means.. well its not good. At least this is my understanding on how the system works in the classroom.. well all last week and the week before Kobe had ALL green..(Which means he gets to pick out of the treasure box on Friday) Even yesterday (Monday) He came home with a green. That is the first thing I check as soon as I grab his folders out. Well today he had a little trouble..

YELLOW..

He hung his head and said I'm really sorry Mom. It was an accident.. he said this like 100 times.. I swear... I asked him what had happened for him to get yellow.. he claimed he didn't know. Then he finally told me he turned on a light in the cabinet(??).. Well come to find out it was the trophy case in the school.. Understandable.. as to why he got yellow.. I told him I wasn't happy that he got yellow and maybe he can try a little harder to not get on yellow anymore.

Ugh I hate that he got yellow. He hates that he got yellow. Yellow sucks. I know its probably not the last time he'll get yellow. But the first time is a shocker.. Not because I think my kid is perfect.. I'll be the first to tell you he is a stink weed, But just the fact he was misbehaving at school upsets me.. I know I'm a freak and I worry too much.. Oh well.. Tomorrow is a new day.. Go Big GREEN!!.. We are rooting for a GREEN tomorrow..

Pics of the New Place..

Finally took some pics of the new place.. sorry its not as clean as it "should be" lol


Here is the Kitchen
The living room from the kitchen

Living room from Hallway

Hallway Kobe room is on the left, past the washer and dryer on the left is the bathroom, straight ahead is Jason and my room.. The door on the right is the back exit.

"Kobe's Bathroom" He decorated.. Excuse the HIDEOUS wallpaper..

Kobe's room

Our room.. again sorry bout the wallpaper!!

Our Toilet and shower "closet"

Wow... wow... weekend!

Sooo let me start with Friday night (just know Saturday recap is worth Reading this whole blog for haha) we surprised our parents with pics we got take the week before. Mom was soooo shocked! She LOVED them.. here is one but if you want to see them all click *HERE*

Soooo Saturday, we did some errand running one of them being, borrowing a tool from Grandpa. soo Kobe wasn't being himself, he was quiet and wouldn't talk much and didn't want to get out at Grandma and Grandpa's (My Grandparents) so he sat in the van while I ran in and Jason went into the garage with Grandpa. Well Jason had come into tell me he was ready.. So we got in the van and drove home.. I turned to say something to Kobe and he wasn't in his booster seat. We didn't know he got OUT at Grandma and Grandpa's. While we were inside he got out and went to see what was going on in the garage. We got ALL the way home before I realized he wasn't in the van.. I didn't know if I should have a panic attack or puke... so I got my phone and dialed Grandma's number to make sure he was out in the garage.. sure enough he was... I felt HORRIBLE.. still to think about it makes me upset.. my Grandparents don't live too far away but far enough.. when we got there I hugged him and apologized my butt off.. He looked at me like I was CRAZY... and says "what?! I wasn't scared!" I mean granted it was Grandma and Grandpa's house but STILL. I felt awful.. *sigh*

On a brighter note.. we grilled out Saturday night.. Yummy Steaks!!! Corn on the cob that I "Food Saved" (and froze)over a month ago and was just as good as the day we bought it. Of course fried Zucchini.. still have that Zucchini coming outta our ears LOL.

Kobe is practicing shoe tieing.. he's doing really well.. he got it a few times this morning when we were practicing.. :)

We went out our "spot" to fish this evening.. We stopped to get a fountain drink before we headed out there.. Kobe was pulling the paper off his straw and musta fell asleep like this hahaha.. I DID take this out of his mouth before he rammed it down his throat :) See I AM a good mom LOL

We went down to our spot well as I sat in my lawn chair I look down and my arm is COVERED in these tiny little bugs.. I mean you could barely see them.. I was like OMG look at these bugs on my arm.. Jason came to look and was like "GET THOSE OFF YOU, THOSE ARE TURKEY TICKS" of course I FREAKED hahahaha eww I'm itching just thinking about it LOL there was probably 100 NOT kidding.. I must of brushed up against something.. UGH..

Here is the guys fishing (not "our spot") but at Wren Pond.

This is what Mommy does while the guys fish.. Excuse the no make-up and wind blown hair ahhh..

Sooooo while fishing at Wren Pond we realized Kobe had forgotten the Mp3 player and his new headphones at "our spot" so we go back hoping and praying they will still be there.. NOPE.. someone snatched them up.. I'm soo upset.. not at Kobe.. But one Myself for not checking around after we packed up and 2 for whoever took it.. You should of KNOWN someone left it on accident and could possibly come looking for it. There were some young boys out there with their Mom.. I hope she didn't *let* them take it.. *sigh* oh well what can ya do? Right?!