Day 99 -- February 14

Valentine's day! And, more importantly, the 18th annual "Big Little Chili Cook-Off" at Milan Church of Christ! There's been a lot of trash talking going on about the top chili, especially between Cory, Nick & Shana.....well, SHANA WON! Nick (well, Stephanie, his wife) came in 2nd and Cory got honorable mention. I tied for third place with my Grandpa Campbell...but I didn't make the chili.....hahaha my mom did! So much fun though!


*I LOVE the olympics



*The sunset from the moving car



*The sunset from the moving car



*Mom's third place chili

*MaryAnn E.'s homemade chocolate covered strawberries -- look how GOOD they look!

*The winning chili -- Shana & Aunt Ann's

*Announcing the winners! Way to go Campbell girls!

*Stephanie (2nd place), Shana (1st place) and Cory (honorable mention)...Cory's face says it all!

Day 98 -- February 13

Austin, Alissa, Brooke (Alissa's sister) and I went snowmobiling today! So much fun! Austin & Alissa snowmobile a lot but it's not every day that they ask me to tag along. I'm not very good (or daring) but it was so much fun! We went about 40 miles throughout the afternoon and made our way through the back roads and fields southwest of Saline. Great times! Hopefully we'll get to do it again! We just need a little more snow! We even spooked 9 deer (at least 3 bucks) that ran across a field RIGHT in front of us! I couldn't get my camera out fast enough to capture the beauty!

*Austin resting in the middle of a field.



*In my balaclava :) So much fun!



*The view from where we rested! Directly down the hill is US-12 & Harry's Furniture


*Alissa jumping a drift back at the Robison house

*I could never quite get my little camera to capture Austin jumping....I'll have to get out my 50D next time to see if I can capture the moment!

Day 97 -- February 12

Today at school was a PD day full of many adventures....good thing there's no school on Monday! It was also the 29th annual Banana Split Party! Yum! Good times (and banana splits) were had by all and the evening wrapped up with everyone sitting down and enjoying the Vancouver 2010 olympic opening ceremony. I LOVE the olympics! GO TEAM USA! (and sometimes Team Canada too!)


*Our orchid blooming yet again! Beautiful!


*Fire in the hole!



*Mom relaxing & watching the opening ceremony of the 2010 olympics

Day 96 -- February 11

Happy Birthday Sweet 16 -- Chey!!!!!!!!!!! Can't believe my little cuz is driving today! Man do I FEEL OLD!


*Austin actually took this picture -- he thought he'd be cool and use my 50D...He actually did pretty well! Look at those vicious teeth & eyes on Sekoia!


*Here's the Sekoia we know and love...a little calmer!

Day 95 -- February 10

SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!! We finally got our snow day! Most of lower Michigan did, too! It was beautiful to wake up to. It was even nicer because we found out the night before! Enjoyed sleeping in and playing in the snow with Tundra & Sekoia while Dad and Austin rode snowmobiles. It would have been count day at school so tomorrow we have count day (run all 8 classes) and then a PD day on Friday and no school Monday :) What a fun week!

*Two hats I crocheted this week. Pretty pleased with them!


*Dad on his toy!



*The dogs LOVING the snow! There's a video below (it's like 4:30 min long...) of the dogs playing in the snow! So cute!

*Austin snowmobiling :)

*Austin riding in the new snow!

*Alissa & her sister Brooke riding...trying to catch up to Austin

Snow Dogs 2.10.10 from Erin Jones on Vimeo.

Day 94 -- February 9

*A somewhat unfocused shot of the snow falling...the night before our snow day :)

Day 92 -- February 7

*My beautiful mother!

Day 91 -- February 6

*The scarf I crocheted for Shana -- It was prettier in person and it has two flowers on each end :)

Day 90 -- February 5

*Playing with yarn :)

Day 88 -- February 3

*Oh the joys of wearing a headband daily. I'm pretty sure that I'll have permanent dents behind my ears by the time my hair gets back to normal....

Day 87 -- February 2

*Snow falling on the logs


*Tundra & Sekoia playing in the light snow



*Tundra & Sekoia playing in the light snow


*Sekoia playing in the light snow

*Tundra & Sekoia playing in the light snow

*Tundra & Sekoia playing in the light snow

Day 85 -- January 31

*Mom & Uncle Scott at the Birthday & Anniversary Celebration! Look at those smiles! Like brother, like sister :)

Day 84 -- January 30

*Shana & I Ice Skating :) P.S. I didn't fall once! Notice the 70s hair....lovely....


*Chase & I Ice Skating at A^2 Ice^3 :)



*Austin, Chase & I -- Ice Skating...Nice face!

Day 83 -- January 29

*My stupid "1970s Feathered Hair" look....I've now resigned to wearing a headband until it grows out and can do what it's supposed to. Ugh.

Day 82 -- January 28

*Sekoia thinks it's the end of the world when her toy falls off the bed..... They were waiting for me to get up! We didn't get back from Philly until about 1:30am Wednesday night and I was lucky to have Thursday off work to recover!



*Tundra all cuddled up...typical!



*Austin on his new stilts! See the video at the bottom :)


*My "fixed" hair -- it won't do what I want it to for a few months but it definitely looks better than it did. I don't even have to style it too much in the morning (since it won't do it anyways) so that'll be interesting...I do, however, prefer that my hair be in its spot how I like it. This will take some getting used to. I can't wait until spring when it's grown back out!

*Fixed hair cut. It'll look better after I get a hold of it in the morning!

*Austin on his new stilts...kind of creepy how easy it is for him to walk, jump, jog, etc on them....

Day 81 -- January 27

*Mom's Philly Cheese Steak Hogies! Gotta love street vendors in front of Independence Hall! Gina M. (our Tech Director), Shinn & I got our food here while the others went a few blocks away (they couldn't find parking). You GOTTA have a hogie from Philly!



*SO COOL! What a historic place! I want to go on the tour! I must go back to Philly!



*Mom's Philly Cheese Steak Hogies! -- Featured in Bill Gates' magazine :)



*The Liberty Bell & Independence Hall




*The Liberty Bell & Independence Hall

*The Liberty Bell

*Gina & I in front of the Liberty Bell! SO COOL!!!!!!!!! I wish we would have been able to stay downtown longer than 18 minutes!

*Shinn in front of the Liberty Bell in downtown Philly! He's so excited!

*My Philly Cheese Steak Hoggie from Philadelphia! YUMMM (yes...it did have ketchup on it....hey, the vendor asked if I wanted any!) lol

*Jamie Schlack, the backseat warrior!

*Shinn complaining about something! Schlack, Shinn & I enjoyed our close to 20 hours in the car together! What a riot! We did a lot of processing and getting to the root of the problem....hahaha and apparently I have trust issues (see garmin picture below....)

*Oh, Garmin how I should have trusted you instead of trying to follow Ron from the beginning. We now have a loving relationship and I hope to one day purchase a Garmin of my very own! "TRUST THE GARMIM!" -- How many times did Shinn & Schlack tell me that!?!?!?

*Sunset over some river in Pennsylvania!

*Beautiful sunset through the windshield somewhere in Pennsylvania (even though it's out of focus, the color is amazing!)

*Driving thru the mountain (literally...thru!) on the way home :)

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