Baby It's Cold Outside!

I will admit I am not a fan of coooooooooolllllllllld weather!!!! However, I do live in Illinois and that means I must endure whatever mother nature throws my way. After being "trapped" in the house for 2 1/2 days with the kiddos last week after the freezing rain, snow, ice etc made it's drop upon Bond County. I HAD to get OUT of the house.......... I didn't go far, but during "quite" time I ventured out into the yard with my camera and took a few snapshots so that someday I can tell my grandchildren and show them photos of the "blizzardy, icey" conditions of 2011. I will say this, the ice makes for some very beautiful nature photos. I also included a photo of our mailbox, you can see at the bottom where the snow was beggining to pile up around it after the snow plow had been down our road several times!!!! But, ours looks like nothing compared to the mailbox at the Speck residence in good ol' Minnesota!!! I am no even sure if they can get their mail on a regular basis................... ;)

Colton turns 6!

Here is a picture of my now 6 year old guy!!! He wanted a pillow pet for his birthday, Mommy suprised him with it this morning before he woke up and she set it on his bed! More pictures and celbration info coming soon on this adorably handsome 6 year old!!!

This is a picture of my 5 year old guy getting rest so that he will grow and be taller when he wakes up and is 6!!!

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!!!!!