Dance, like mother like daughter!

So it begins, when I was Callye's age I was taking dance and tumbling classes in Greenville. My classes were combined and I was taught by the amazing Barbara Sugg!!!!! If you know her then you know she was a great teacher and it has continued within the family. Her daughter Lori loves to dance as do Lori's girls Allison (my current fair Queen) and Bridget. I decided it was something that Callye would enjoy. So this summer her and I talked about it and if you know Callye then you know she LOVES to dance so it was not a difficult deicision to enroll her in dance class.

All ready to go to her first night of dance, she even hairs her up in the bun as requested by the dance studio. Isn't her hair adorable?????

This is by far my favorite photo of her during dance. It was actually taken after dance class, being that during dance class parents are not allowed in the room so that the girls can concentrate and not get distracted. I think that is a wonderful idea!!! After her class I asked her to show me her room and to show me some of the moves she learned. She ran straight for the mirror and made this pose.

Showing me some of her dance moves!

"Mommy we do this it is called the butterfly" Well we are 2 1/2 months into dance season and she loves it. She will be performing at the local nursing homes with her dance class in December until then.............

The boys of fall......the smaller version!

Getting the game plan all figured out before their very first game!

Here comes the runningback for the local Greenville Rams, will he make it to the end zone ????

WOOHOO!!!! TOUCHDOWN!!!!! By Colton Earnest (Way to go buddy)

Group picture with our 2 asst. coaches, huddle down to the ground and put your hands in. Let's get ready to play our final game of the season boys!!!!!!!

Our boys of fall heading out to the field!

Preparing for our next move during the final game.

Our last game got rained out and ended in a tye. We did manage to beat the other team every other game of the season. The boys learned alot, played well, and most of all had fun!!! Last time of the season for ALL IN..........GO RAMS!!!!!!!

CAN YOU TELL BY THE HUGE SMILE ON HIS FACE HOW MUCH HE LOVES TO PLAY FOOTBALL?????????

Colton played football this fall and loved every minute of it! He is quick and everyone commented on how he already has formed calf muscles! He started running when he was little and it is something he enjoys doing. Anytime we are outside he wants to race from tree to tree or just run period. He had 2 great coaches (one of them was his dad). Wonder where he got his love of football????????????

Dino Day

This is the final result after a few hours of chipping away to find all the dino fossils! We ended up one T-Rex arm short of being able to complete the puzzle er statute. I went back thru all of the rock and still didn't find it! The kids had fun and we were able to spend the day together doing something different all while learning something as well.

Callye with her safty goggles on preparing to chip away some more of the rock in hopes of finding more dinosaur fossils!

Colton was really into it, he LOVES dinosaurs and loves to read books about them as well. I may have a future paleontogist on my hands!!!!!!!

And so it begins.............

Callye the night before she started Preschool! It is so very hard for me to believe that my baby girl is growing up and starting school. She has been asking to go since last year when she realized Colton was going! She is one very independant and strong willed individual, I only hope that the teachers can handle her.....lol. Not sure where on earth she would have learned to so independant, strong willed and set in her ways?????????? I hope that you have an amazing year at school at that you make lots of new friends all while learning.

As you can see she started out in her room, but ended up in our room! She came to catch a few snuggles with Mommy after Daddy left for work.

The true breakfast of Champions!!! Granola Bars of course......... Colton and Callye call them Cereal bars and it is a standard staple in our house for breakfast!

My little princess all ready for school.

A side view to show off her backpack and to give another smile!!!

Colton telling Callye to be good in school, while Callye is telling him he is not the boss to mind his own business...........

Headed to the car to head off to start a new adventure.

Showing off her backpack, she loves butterflies and pink is one of her favorite colors. One thing she def. does not get from me, (Pink and Purple happen to be my 2 least favorite colors). Guess what her other favorite color is?????? Purple!

A quick pray for a good year, lots of fun, making new friends, and learning before getting in the car ;D

The sun was a little bright so the picture didn't turn out to great, but that's ok.

Heading into her future, one that I hope is filled with everything she could ever want. I know there will be times that life will seem unfair, and cruel but sometimes those are the moments that make us stronger!

Making new friends at school already, she just jumped right in and started playing with them.

Carson and Callye, I hope that they are the best of friends growing up and always look out for each other. Carson has an older sister that is Colton's age and they are in the same class in Kindergarten. They spent 2 years at FCCP as well and are pretty good buddies as well.

Wiped Out!

This picture was just to cute not to share! Callye and I were home the morning of Colton's first day of Kindergarten. She laid down on the livingroom floor to watch some cartoons, I looked overabout 5 minutes later and she was asleep! This was at 10:30 in the morning!!!! It is alot of work getting up and making sure that "Bubba" gets off to his first day of kindergarten. Some days you just have to throw yourself down and relax.......................

Bits of our weekend Vol 1

I got the idea for this post from a friends blog that I keep up with and thought it would be a good addition to our blog. This blog is actually backwards so start at the bottom and then come back up. I uploaded the photos in the wrong order and decided I didn't want to start all over!!!! Enjoy! Boo!!!! Here we are ;D Daddy finally found them.

Daddy looking for the kiddos in a fun game of hide and seek.

We finished off our weekend with an enjoyable family game of hide and seek! Can you guess where the 2 kiddos are hidding?

All hail princess Callye! While playing she found this spare crown and decided to put it on her head! It is just made of foam but she loves it!!!!!

Colton decided to push Callye and Hagan around in the stroller and they both decided to take full advantage of it.

While the other kiddos were sleeping (laying down and not sleeping in Callye's case) Colton and I decided to make some brownies. Being the oldest does have some advantages, as you get to refrain from having nap time and indulge in all the joys of the brownie batter instead......yummy!

Callye, Colton, and Hagan playing in Colton's room!

My lil' buddy Heston getting some tummy time in and playing with all of his toys.

My little mother hen, she couldn't wait for them to arrive! She immeadiatly pulled her blanket off her bed so that Heston could have it to play on!

We got to spend some time with our two favorite Henrichsmeyer boys on Sunday. Momma wanted to go shopping so she brought Hagan and Heston over for a play date! The four of them had a blast, not sure how well the Henrichsmeyer boys slept but the 2 Earnest kids were out like lights come bedtime!!!!!

Queen Allison and her court, Katie, Shay, and Valerie. We had our last parade as a group on Saturday in Sorento. They all start back to college this week. I hope they all have an amazing year. They were such wonderful young ladies to work with this summer. We were missing Jaclyn and MiRanda they were moving into school that day.

Kindergarten..........Already! It just doesn't seem possible!

Rise and Shine, it's time to get ready for your very first day of Kindergarten!
Breakfast of Champions........
I got him woke up and asked him if he wanted pancakes, eggs, or a banana for breakfast! I was all prepared to make him a good home-cooked meal for his BIG DAY! He responds with "Can I just have a Peanut Butter Granola Bar?" Well but of course if that's what you really want to have, then that is what you will get!

At this point he is happy to be having his picture taken, showing off his new backpack with a big smile ;D on his face. If you continue on, you will notice that they smile disappears and a look of discust comes over his face. This may have a little to do with the fact that I am the crazy mom taking pictures of everything all the time......................

Callye wanted to have her picture taken with "bubba" on his big day! Colton decided to start throwing up an array of hand signals but at least they are being nice to one another and smiling what more could a mom ask for????????? lol

Ok, now this picture took MAJOR talent to snap. I was holding 2 large Walmart bags full of additional supplies that didn't fit into his backpack, as well as a box of gym shoes, holding Callye's hand, and snapping the picture all at once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Super Mom????? well maybe if you insist...........

This is when he decides he really doesn't want his picture taken anymore but at this point he still wants to make mom happy. He stops in front of the good ol' Mulberry Grove Elementary sign for a photo op. It was pretty important to me to get this particular picture as I attended good ol' MGES and loved (almost) every minute of it!

This was pretty neat, when I went to MGES the school colors were green and gold. A few years ago they changed them to orange and blue so that the entire school had the same color scheme. Therefor I wanted to get yet another picture!!!! At this point Colton said ok mom but ONLY 1!

If you started at the top and I told you if you kept going you would get to a point where we would find a look of disgust at all my picture taking! This is that point, can you tell he is LESS THAN THRILLED by all the photo ops.

These are the name "plates" that will go where they sit at each of their chairs. Colton's is in the bottom left corner. The teacher was not sure if we spelt his name on or en so she left it blank until she talked to me to get the proper spelling.

He found his chair and the teacher had a lil' goodie bag for each of the kids. Inside was all kinds of neat stuff, pencils, erasers, stickers, playdoh, fruit snacks, a magnet..............

Ryan H, Colton, and Courtney D. These 3 all went to FCC Preschool together and now they are all in the same class. They have already grown and changed so much in the last 2 years I can't imagine what they will look like and how much they will change by the end of the school year. Stay tuned as I will post pics of the 3 of them through out the school year and different functions!

The door to the classroom, Mrs. Arter is very crafty that is for sure. It has a monkey hanging from a coconut tree and each of the kids has their name on a coconut. The sign reads "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Look who's in our room!"

Here comes the bus.........................It has some very precious cargo on it!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's my big kindergartener, and his buddy Randy the Bus Driver! I still can't believe he is going to school this year........

Look at him he is headed right for his Momma to tell me all about his first day of school! I asked him what his favorite part of the whole day was. His response "Riding Randy's bus, I got to sit with 2 other people in the seat to make 3!" We shall see if he feels the same way about riding the bus in a few years...................

Stay tuned as next week my baby girl starts preschool and the crazy picture taking mom will once again come out in me and there will be lots of photos of her first day as well.......