Football Season....

So, I am really pretty new at the whole foot ball mom thing. I am not really one to go and just start talking to the person next to me and really I don't like going alone....but I do what I gotta do and sit there and keep to myself pretty much. So, today was lil Korey's first "real" game. I am glad that they are calling it the first "real" game because the first "fake" game was just plain embarrassing!! They were the bad news bears of football. It was just bad. Big Korey was with me at that one, and we had a good time making jokes, yes, at our teams, or sons expense. It helped pass the time. It was like a tee ball game, and watching the boys pick the daises out there. BORING! You see the pic below, it was more fun to take pics of Jacob with the players behind him.



So, I have to say the best part was Big Korey and I spending the time together, making jokes at their expense...we really had some great ones. I was just on that day, one good one after another. (Side note here: Korey had gotten into an accident that day with the police car, and he was in a bad mood, or sad mood, but since he is always telling me that the is a professional driver when I think he is driving like a nut, I took this opportunity to really let him have it, not mean mind you, just "good ones". So, our friend that was supposed to do a ride along with him, well, I told him it may just actually be a walk along, because they took away his police car.) Now, back to the game....so lil Korey really is embarrassed by us. I guess this happens around this time in a teens life. No matter how cool we know we actually are or how many times we tell him how cool we are, we are just an embarrassment. So, we know that lil K talks a lot of "smack" or junk what ever todays lingo may be. He thinks that he is all that and a bag of chips (these sort of one liners is the reason he is embarrassed by us.)Well, the truth is, right now he is just the crumbs at the bottom of the bag. So we waved to him, ya know we wanted him to know we were there to root his team on. He could hardly wave back!! Like he was too embarrassed to wave to US? So, I said, "he is embarrassed? Heck I don't want to even acknowledge that he is even my son at this point...." OK, you really had to be there, because Big K and I were laughing and laughing, and really going on and on to each other at how funny we were. It was knee slapping funny! So, I guess, we are supposed to be the grown adults here rooting on our wonderful son, and he is, just not at football...we digressed back to our high school days and it was fun.
Now, today's game was a whole other story. They actually looked like a team PLAYING football! What a few days makes! Korey was out there, and not looking like an oompa loompa thinking about doing his job on the field, he did his job. And he did it well. I just wish I would have had my camera fixed so I can get action shots again....just as long as they keep the action coming.

(I am a good mom, right, even if I like to make fun of my son, in a loving way of course.)

First Day of Pre-school....

This was Jacob's first week of pre-school. The first day was only an orientation day, so the kids played and got to know the teachers and each other a bit as the parents had a meeting with the board. I was really surprised that Jacob acted a bit shy, was a little unsure. There are probably 5 kids that he knows, 3 that he knows really well from Church. After a bit, he relaxed a bit and started to play. When it was time for pickup Jacob was upset he did not get to use any of his school supplies. The teacher promised he would use some the next time. He felt better about it. :) Korey could not attend that first orientation day of school due to a murder trial he had to testify at, for the second time...anyway he took today off from work to be there. Jacob walked in, hung his back pack and put on his name tag...he was all set to start his day. He went in, I told him I loved him gave him a kiss, did my thing and off he was....off to play, with out a second thought about his dad. Korey thought, "I took a day off for this? He did not even say good bye?!!"
Jacob had a great time....he is excited about school. He is also excited about going to Aunt Lori's on Monday when mommy goes back to work, part time. That is a whole different blog...To be cont...

This picture was from today, he had a great time!

Last day of summer....First day of school....

Some parents may be a little sad when their kids start school. I have to say I was not. I love my kids, but with lil Korey turning into a teenager (GASP), Jordan having the middle child syndrome and Jacob wanting to get in on all the action, or start some of his own, I had a rough summer at first. It was hard to get into the swing of things. In the end....I realized that the summer went by fast. Before I know it they will all be grown and out of the house. So, anyway...last day of summer break, we spent the whole day at Six Flags Darien Lake. We went with Lori and her kids (sister). Korey actually ended up having the day off, but oh shoot....no room for him to ride...he was so sad! (NOT!) He went fishing! I have to say what a trooper Jacob was this day. They said that they were short staffed, so the little ones in the kiddie ride area , get the short end of the stick. There were only a few rides that were open, he rode 3 rides the whole day and did not complain at all! He loved the bumper cars. It was his first time he could actually go on and drive. Just tall enough. I am sharing the video cause watching him go round and round in circles was soooo funny! When he finally made it out of his own circle and he bumped someone, he was so EXCITED!


Tell me what you think of that video, I could not stop laughing!

Then off to the water park and the kids had a great time. Did the old fashion photo again of course and you will see that with the Christmas card. One last stop at the Super Man, but he had tears, Jordan is still to short! So off to the swings, and we all left happy. The kids actually started school the next day! We never start the day after Labor Day, but this was the schedule this year, so a stop home at Walmart for some last minute stuff and rush home to get a ice cream treat for the SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW celebration, I may have been the only one celebrating that fact, but they enjoyed their ice cream cone, then their Fathers Blessing from daddy. (Yeah, he finally made it home from the fishing trip in time for 9 PM blessings.) No one could fall to sleep...and morning came early. I had all back packs packed and ready to go! Little Korey was not so keen on me taking his picture, so I took it from the door so no one would see a THIRTEEN year old boy get his picture taken before school!


Jordan was all about the picture, at least at home.


Jacob had to get in on the action, his first day of pre-school is not until next week...that will be all its own blog...(sniff, sniff)



But the next photo speaks a thousand words. (Well, the picture I thought I had was the one with his face covered with his back pack as he got off the bus.) So, yeah, I was the only parent that met the busses at the school to capture that moment of Jordan walking off the bus at his new school...it is a change of school when in 4th grade here. I didn't get that memo that said parents don't do that anymore! Jordan told me in that sweet way that has the hint of scarcism..."yeah, mom...it was cute before, but not so much now!" I was the only parent in the hall following all the kids cram into the small doors like lab mice trying to get the prize first. (little did I know that at the office doors they were not allowing parents into the school with the kids, and there was quite a stir about it with many of the parents, but I was in and not one person said anything to me about it. I think I have that "don't mess with me and my child going to a new school and not knowing where he had to go" look. Like the other 100's of students did not have the same situation happening...but you know I am the one that made it in.)


So, yeah, he got a little razzing...from our neighbor standing in the pic too, who happens to be in his class too...so I took pics of him too, so Jordan was not the only one getting his pic taken.

We all made it through the first day of school, with out any problems...oh wait, lil Korey did decide to ride his 4 wheeler that evening, and rolled it! Big Korey thought he may have seperated his shoulder. So, off to the ER and they requested x-rays...it was a long night, and lil Korey did not get to bed until 11 PM. And he is fine, just bruised his shoulder, back and chest. All is well!