Oct 23, 2016

The end of October is sneaking up on us.. I can't believe how fast this month is going.. it will be Christmas before I know it.. I HAVE started Christmas shopping.. I have 4 people bought for! I have not started on Kobe's though. I've usually started by now. I'll get it done like I always do :)

So here is a little that has been going on..

We decided to have a weenie roast for dinner one night lol.. I only like hotdogs over a campfire..

This is what happens when you realize your son's soccer stuff is out in the van at 10:25pm the night before his soccer game..

 This saturday was his last regular season game. The tourney starts Tuesday


 Last Saturday Mom, Kobe, Noah and I went to the craft show in Jasper.. it wasn't a very good craft show.. or maybe we are just used to it since its the same stuff over and over.. they are even in the same booth spots every year.  But we still went and checked it out.. and mom bought a couple little things..

Taking a break

  Then on the way home from Jasper we decided we would go ahead up and park for the drawing at the K of C.. So from 4:30 til the 6 we hung out in the car lol

Noah did sleep most of the time though..

 We didn't win any money but we looked cute LOL..

So Kobe has started basketball for the school.

 Soccer isn't over yet so Tuesday night he had basketball from 3:30-5 then went straight to soccer from 5:30-7..

Good thing I packed him a pb&j to eat between practices ;)

Mamaw and Papaw bought Kobe some Steph Curry basketball shoes.. he was pretty pumped!

He has never played basketball before. He really doesn't know much about basketball and neither do I. When I was younger I went to 1 basketball camp and that was it lol I never played. We are a soccer family so this is new to all of us.. But he is determined to learn it and be good at it. Kids were telling him he sucked and pointing out everything he did wrong even his friends. He was really upset after practice one night. He wouldn't tell me at first. He would just tell me nothing is wrong but was such a butt to me. I could tell something was wrong. I know him better than he realizes lol. So finally he broke down and told me. I think I spent an hour crying over this. I hate when my kid is hurt/upset. I mean I don't think they were being mean, they are just being normal 5th and 6th grade kids. I wish he didn't take everything to heart. But he does. All I can do as a mom is try my best to build him up.

 If I can't do that on my own I bring in reinforcements.. I give you example A:

My niece Olivia. She helped Kobe with some basketball tips and now Kobe has gotten the "Lay Up" down for basketball.. and a lot of other things. She really helped him so much and it made me so happy that she was so sweet in helping him. She was so positive and supportive and never made any negative comments even when his lay up was horrible in the beginning. I'm very thankful he has someone like her in his life. Now don't get me wrong these two can fight like brother and sister but for the most part they get along great and are the best of friends!

Now let's talk about how I have fail my child.. I'm a horrible parent. I have not introduced Kobe to Hocus Pocus!!! My ALL time FAVORITE movie! I can't believe I've never showed him this movie. So I found it online at FreeForm.com and we watched it on my laptop.

He loved it.. I knew he would.

So Last night while I was at the K of C Drawing my sister took Kobe and Olivia to the Haunted High Haunted House on Main Street. We made them go with lights on because we heard it was really scary and we didn't know if they would freak out or not and Amanda couldn't go in with them because she had Noah. Well I didn't know they didn't scare you lol so it wasn't scary at all. So it was kinda of a waste of ticket lol But I don't know if they are ready for the scariness lol. Maybe next year..

Oct 13th 2016

It's almost Halloween!!!! My favorite time of the year!!! Yay! 

This year we are starting a new tradition with our family and close friends..

We are having our first annual Halloween bash!

In the past we've had a New Year's Eve bash which I think we might start back up but first we are going to start the Halloween Bash this year..

We have our costumes picked out and ready to go..

Here are a few of Noah helping Kobe try on some masks lol

Fyi.. this is not his costume lol

 It's a rare occasion that these two are sitting down and not moving lol so I had to capture the moment lol

The KofC in Washington has been having a big drawing each week So dad and I have been getting tickets and going up in the crazy madness to try and win the big jackpot.. This week the jackpot is over $700,000... they estimated 5-6,000 people up on Main street!

A few weekends ago we had the annual Car Fest. We love going up on Main street and watching the car cruise. Although it makes me sad because it kinda means summer is pretty much over..

We decided to "remodel" our bathroom.. more like give it a face lift lol

Here is before and after! I found a Shower curtain but haven't ordered it yet.. so the 

old one will have to do for now lol

Instead of buying all new towel rods and other accessories we spray painted them...

Kobe's soccer team was recognized at the High School boys game .. this was a first for the soccer federation. The boys loved it..

We had a Walk-a-thon at school for a teacher at Griffith and her family.. The school raised over $1500 ..

The winner of the Penny Wars got to dunk our principal in the dunk tank..

 The winners were the 4th grade.. and 2nd place was 5th grade which Kobe is in!! They came from dead last 3 days in a row to 2nd place..!!

They got to dunk the Dean of Students (which I didn't get a picture of)

Kobe said he wants this in his stocking for Christmas LOL

So the other day we rearranged the living room. Since our "entertainment center" is so LARGE we can only put the livingroom two ways.. I said I wish we had a smaller one so we could arrange the living room different. So Jason gets an idea we'll cut this one down so before I knew it he was up and moving the TV off and all the movies lol 

Here is our "new" entertainment center LOL..

Gotta love an ambitious man!