Sledding!!!

Colton and Callye having fun sledding at Nanny and Pappy's house this past weekend!!! More photos of sledding will be posted soon in another blog post. Stay tuned...........

Christmas #1, #2, #4, and #5

As promised here is an array of photos from all of our other Christmas Gatherings. The top picture is our standard every year picture with my brothers and I! We have done this for as long as I can remember!!!!!

A very exciting week for Colton

Well this has been a BIG week for Colton. He brought home his first ever AR (accelerated reader) book. The book was called SPLAT! He brought it home on Tuesday when they returned to school after the break. On Wednesday he lost his first tooth. Not quite how we had planned as he was climbing up the slide and an older boy was coming down and kicked him and knocked his tooth out. None the less, he still lost his first tooth and we put it under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy to leave him some money. Mommy wanted to keep the tooth so that she can put it in his scrapbook or get a special box to put it in. In order to do this without revealing the (parents) are the true toothfairies. We left the toothfairy a nice note asking that he leave the tooth. Colton recieved $5 from the toothfairy. Daddy toothfairy thought this was a little much, but Mommy toothfairy believes it was proper especially since it was his first tooth and that it didn't come out in a normal fasion.......... On Thursday Colton took his first AR test and scored 100%. He also brought home another book that we read and he took back to school today (Friday) to take a test on. Please enjoy the pictures of my toothless wonder...............

Christmas number 3.........

Callye eating a cookie while "playing" playstation! Also she was very interested in Megan's new sewing machine. She watched grandma thread it once and knew how to do it ;)

The "kids" (they are no longer really kids) and the Big kids playing video games!!

Time to open presents, Colton, Erin, and Quinn. Now it is Megan's turn, I didn't get a good one of Brandon or Dustin for some reason..... Well I am sure you are all confused as the title of this post is Christmas number 3....What happened to photos from 1 and 2. Well I have them on a different card and will post them later!! In all this year we had 5 Christmas' More photos of all the other happy times to come................

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!

Here are some holiday photos for all of you to enjoy! 2010 has been a year of lots of ups and a few downs for the Earnest Family. As I look back over the past 12 months, I choose to reflect on the good things that happened during the year. Pop had surgery in January and the tumor was successfully removed and he didn't need chemo or radiation! Chad took a different position at work and now gets home earlier in the day. Our friends Mike and Shawna Sue brought a new baby into this world! (He is now very healthy and moving and crawling all over the place :) ) Colton started Kindergarten and loves every minute of it and is very well adjusted to attending all day everyday. Callye started Preschool and has made new friends and is learning all sorts of stuff. I gained a new Queen and friend to spend time with over the next year. We celebrated being in our new home for a year. My very BEST FRIEND in the WHOLE world moved closer to me! (Welcome to the neighborhood Wild Kingdom!!!!!!) and so much more.............but for now I will leave with a great BIG MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Family Photos

We recently had family photos taken, and they turned out great despite the windy day! We (rather I as Chad is not much for photos) decided we should have some family pics taken since we have not had any taken since Callye's first Christmas (I think we warded off official family photos because it was such a disaster when we did do them, at one point or another the kids were not cooperating.) They are older now and it worked out better until the very end when Colton didn't want Callye next to him and Callye just kept trying to drive him crazy by chasing him! We hope you enjoy the new pics!

This is one of my favorites, I love how it looks like a bunch of post-it notes all put together. This one one taken at Pop's in the pasture. (All the pics were taken at locations that have meaning for our family or of my memories as a child.)

It is so hard to believe that Colton will be 6, in just a few months!!! Our lives forever changed for the better when he was born and we became a family of 3. Colton is my adventerous one, he loves to be outside and he LOVES to run!!!! Alot of people tell me he looks like me, but I do some of Chad in him especially as he gets older they share alot of the same mannuerisms. Colton loves to play at Nanny and Pappy's and in this picture he is sitting on the steps that come down to the back patio.

My sweet and precious (most of the time) baby girl Callye will soon turn 4 and it just does not seem possible!!!!!! I remember almost having a panic attack when they told me I may have to have a c-section with her. Luckily everything worked out and that was not neccessary. She is just like me in so many ways. She is independant, sassy, and "is always right".....haha. Callye is def. Pop's sweetheart and runs straight for the cookies in the kitchen when we go to see him. This pic was taken out in Pop's pasture. I made lots of memories growing up and spending time here.

Sometimes you just have to let loose and have a little bit of fun and be crazy!!!!

This is by far my favorite picture that Chad and I had taken together. I realize he is not smiling but it is still my favorite.

Big Brother and Little Sister, they both fit these rolls pretty well. Colton is pretty protective of Callye the only person allowed to pick on her is him and vice versa. When we made our first venture to Walmart with Callye after she was born,he was standing in the back of the cart. A friend's mother came up and asked if she could look at Callye and I said sure, Colton said "NO she is my sister don't look at her and don't touch her, she is coming home with us!!!" Funny how things have changed in just 3 years, I think sometimes he would now like to give her away to the first person that see her at Walmart now......

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.............