What a day, What. A. Day.!

Today is my parents 37th wedding Anniversary. To celebrate they decided for dad to have back surgery.Okay not really but this is the day it was scheduled. So my parents drove to my house and got in my van with me so I could drive them to Jasper for his surgery. We just been on the road maybe 10 minutes I turn onto the hwy to head to Jasper and my van starts making this God awful noise.. I had a blown out tire. GREAT! So my dad, ya know the one who is on his way for back SURGERY, thinks he is going to get on the ground and change the tire.. I was like "DAD you are NOT getting down on that ground to change this tire!!!" so after a few minutes of us locating the spare tire and getting the jack out this nice older gentleman pulls up . He's older than my dad, he helps us in the mean time my mom calls my brother to come get my dad and her so my dad wont be late for his surgery.. So Kobe and the nice gentleman work together and get my spare on. The spare needs air and wouldn't make it to Jasper so my mom called my brother again and told him well he has his finance follow him so she can take my parents and he'll help me with my van. So by this time the gentleman leaves and we wait on Adam and Krista.. well Adam pulls up and gets out and Krista is a few cars behind. Krista goes to turn left to come to us and as she is turning this lady plows into Krista tearing up her front end really good.. It was scary since I watched it all go down. At the time I didnt realize it was Krista until the cars had stopped. So then my mom dad Kobe and I take my brother's truck to Jasper while he and Krista wait for the sheriff who took forever to get there I might add. The whole way to Jasper I kept telling my dad I think this is a sign from God that you shouldn't have this surgery today. Well we get there at 1 he had to be there at 1:15pm they were behind and he didn't go into surgery until 5:15pm. This place closed at 5. But he had his surgery and is home and doing great so far.. This was such a crazy day that it makes me realize just how blessed we are. Blessed for the gentleman who helped us, bless for my brother and Krista coming to our rescue, blessed for Krista not getting hurt in the wreck, blessed dad's surgery went great...

May is movin' out..

I can't believe May is almost over. This month flew by.. So much has gone on and once again I have failed to blog about it. I get in this mindset during the day that I'm going to blog and what all I have to say. Once I'm home, I get my jammies on and watch Netflix or do something else and I don't have the blogging mindset anymore.. So I told myself I HAVE to blog tonight lol.

Kobe got a 'job' for the summer. It has already started even though it isn't summer yet.. But he is mowing my parents yard for $10 every time.

 Check out those snow boots lol

Kobe wanted to try and fix a pizza all by himself.. it ended up with him mad at me because I "treat him like a baby" umm you ARE my baby kid lol

 Such concentration ..

In the state of Indiana kids are required to take a test called I-READ. Its part of the iStep testing. Kobe was a nervous wreck leading upto this test. He kept saying "what if I don't pass? I won't be able to go to 4th grade!" I assured him over and over that he'll do fine. Just make sure you read everything carefully. Well after a long painful wait (for me) the results were in.. Kobe got a 650 out of 650!!! He got a PERFECT score!!! I cried! I cried for several days every time I thought about it I got emotional.. My son.. MY son.. MY SON!! Got a perfect score. I was a C/D student and so was my ex husband so I have NO idea were he got it.. well My Mom loves to read and is a fast reader and my sister is smart so it must be them lol. He was very proud of himself! I was very proud!! I still am!

 Just a random but oh so cute pic of Noah I took

We celebrated Mom's birthday.. We took her out to one of the local Mexican restaurants here in town. We got her these gorgeous flowers that thanks to me are still alive 20 days later LOL..

 The next day we went to my Aunt Donna's to celebrate her husband's 50th Bday and Kobe had the best time lol. He was bummed that he was the only kid there but that changed fast when he caught the biggest fish, Then Aunt Donna let him ride the 4-wheeler and Golf Cart ALL day! He was in Heaven lol

 Kobe took me for a drive.. I was VERY scared for the first 5 minutes.

Kobe and I started Geo Caching. He read about it on either the istep test or a weekly reader.. so he looked it up online, found the app and begged me and begged me to do it. I had heard of it before since my Best Friends brother used to do it a lot but wasn't quite sure so I searched it and we tried our first one. Kobe is good at it!

Our first find!

We left the dollar since we were not prepared!

Kobe got the bracelet out of the box

It was really fun and I think we are up to 9 finds all over our county

Noah J got him a big boy haircut!!

Kobe got a 4-wheeler.

Kobe's team won their Championship game! They are 2nd time u-10 City Champions!!!

For Mother's Day Jason got me a new Hydrangea bush since I killed mine I got last year! Its looking good so far this year!!

When I went to get Kobe at my parent's house on Mother's Day he was outside playing and ran to the van and said "WAIT! Don't come in til I tell you too.." So I stood on the porch and he yelled "ok, come in" as I turned to shut the door I was shot by 30 rounds of nerf darts lol.. He yells Happy Mother's Day LOL then redeems himself with these yummies!

These are my all time favorite chocolates. This was a variety pack and had some I've never tried before..

This past weekend Jason finally was able to sand and repaint my glider!

I LOVE it!

As we were walking to the front yard to bring it up on the porch, I was walking ahead of the guys so I could move the stuff and get the porch ready for the glider just as I was getting ready to step up onto the steps I heard a noise and looked down and saw..

THIS

Ugh! I screamed!!

I hate snakes!!

One last thing.. Kobe place in the top 20 for Box Tops at school! We really didn't even try this year.. So we were both shocked! He came in 20th place but hey whatever right?! lol He got an autographed picture of the Chicago Bears.. He was excited.. That's all that matters ;)

Guess what I'm doing?!

if you guessed *Playing catch up* you are RIGHT!!! So here goes!

Kobe made pancakes

Noah has upgraded from High Chair to booster seat

We played some PIG and HORSE

Jason has found a new Hobby

Dad fell asleep or passed out at the wheel and wrecked the car

lol hope he's comfy

Soccer season has begun!

Olivia turned 9!

My cousin Davey and his gf Wendy welcomed Jackson David into the world

Kobe stopped in the store to pick these up with out being told..

Colored Easter Eggs

Mom and I took the kids to the Harlem Wizards game.. the kids had VIP passes and got to sit courtside and do a meet and greet