Earnest Family Reunion 2010!!!!!

Gotta love the Earnest family reunion!! We look forward to it all year, the food, the food, and did I mention the food?? He he... We also enjoy spending time together too!! ;) But in all seriousness I am really grateful to my sister Adrienne for opening up her home to ALL of us!! All ten kids an their spouses and kids (if they had them) stayed in my sisters house up in Folsom, CA. (near Sacramento)

It was an absolute blast from start to finish and I am sad to see it end... Oh well, I guess there is next year!!!

Mark and Madeline

My hot man!!!

Stella, Mark's daughter

Ty, Adrienne's youngest, anytime you say smile to him he turns his head and gives a big grin!!

Uncle David playing with all the nieces and nephews

Aaron and Rachel playing the toothpick game

Lot's of doubles ping-pong was played

Me and some of my beautiful nieces!!

Remember how I mention "food?" The proof is in the pudding!

My sister's church building is next door to the Sacramento temple, so after church we walked around and took pictures, these are just some of the grandkids with Grandma and Grandpa :)

Mary with her eldest Daughter Kay, and Jocelyn my sister Rachel's daughter

Lot's of basketball playing!

I had all the kids jump in the pool at the same time... kinda...

Mary, Me, and Rachel

Brian and Lydia, my sister Rachel's youngest

Me and my two nieces, Alexa and Sadie (Adrienne's daughters)

The Count Down!!!

Let the COUNT DOWN BEGIN! Brian and I have planned a trip to Oahu, Hawaii!! We planned the trip in April and thought the day would never come!! Now it is only 14 days away!!!! We are so so excited!!!! We get to stay where we stayed for our honeymoon and that was an absolute fantasy :)

This is the picture I took on our honeymoon a year and a half ago!!

On our honeymoon, I can't believe we get to go back, especially before Brian starts law school this fall... We need it!!

Such an amazing place

Pictures of our hotel from the internet... So a quite a bit better camera than mine ;)

Parent's 40th Anniversary Weekend!

So all my siblings and their spouses got together this last weekend and surprised my parents for their 40th Anniversary! Every friday night my parents go to the temple together, so we all thought that would be the perfect place to surprise them! We all hid in front of the Newport Beach temple! So fun! They were super surprised! We all went into the temple together to do sealings and it was so amazing, the spirit was so strong and it was fun to be there with all ten kids and their spouses!

Thanks Mom and Dad for making it to 40 years, let's do it again for the 50th!!!

We were all lined up from youngest to oldest!

This is right when my parents saw us!

Then all day saturday was beach day!! The Earnest family loves nothing more than beach volleyball and beach time!

The gang lounging

My amazing BYU Men's Volleyball star husband (he's retired though) :)

Bezza time!!

After the beach all day we went to John's Fish Market in Dana point Harbor because it is Earnest tradition, best fish tacos ever!!!

Our Boys Did IT!! GO LAKERS!!! 2010 World Champs!

They did it!! After a long hard season and long hard playoffs our boys did it!! I don't usually mention teams that I follow on my blog because I don't want to risk it, you know, knock on wood and all!! But now that they have won I can rejoice!!!! Nice job Lakers!!! You scared us for a while there... being down the whole game and Kobe struggling offensively... but you pulled it off!! Now I can enjoy my summer!!!!! Can't wait until next year! 3-peat anyone????

I'm so excited!!!

So, as most of you know, Brian is selling home security this summer... I know it's crazy!! But he has been in Denver selling this week, staying with my sister Rachel and her family, and doing really well! So now every weekend until I'm done with my summer term classes I am meeting him out there!! Well, today is a fun day because I get to go see my hubby!!! And since it's a holiday weekend and I don't have class on monday I get to stay even longer!! I am so excited! I miss him so much!! I know we're learning a lot from these new experiences which I am grateful for. We also are blessed that my sister is letting us stay with her for so long! I can't wait to be there for even longer just to hang out with her too!!!! Yay!! COLORADO!!!

I love this boy!!

Sister's Weekend

Last weekend I was able to attend Women's Conference, it was planned as a Earnest girls weekend, but Mary, Amanda, and my Mom couldn't make it :( It was still super fun though to go to all the talks on BYU Campus and feel the spirit there. It really gave me great peace knowing Brian will start Law school there in the fall. It truly is a great school and we are lucky for the experiences we will have.

Elder Oaks, and his wife were the closing ceremonies speakers. He is so awesome! My picture is fuzzy but the other pictures were a little too dark... So deal with it! he he

Spencer's (g/f) Amy, we went up to Cheesecake Factory on Friday night, lot's of fun. Great food!

Adrienne my sister, Rachel my sister, and Me @ Cheesecake!

Rachel L., Rachel E., Me, and Adrienne after a talk.

My little Ballerina Niece

My niece Sarah performed in, Hansel & Gretel, a ballet over this last weekend. She was a cotton candy and came out onto stage with the Witch! She is such an amazing ballerina, so graceful! I could never do half of the things she does with her tiny little body, ballet is incredible! Seeing this show put a strong desire in me to see another ballet. I love my niece, she is such an amazing girl and is truly very talented!

Sarah and Aaron performed at the end of the show doing a daddy/daughter dance, I don't think there was a dry eye in the building

The gang at the show! (Spencer, Amy, (Spencer's awesome girlfriend) Me, Brian, Brody, Jackie, Luke, and the ballerina!

Brian and the soon to be famous ballerina, Sarah

Me and Sarah