Thanksgiving Festivities

Time to enter another post. I know it's been too long when I start getting hate email from the fam (Barbie). He He. So I thought I'd do a quick post on the Thanksgiving happenings at our house. Nothing happened at our house. Okay I'm sure Heidi threw a couple of wild parties while we were gone! Thanks Heidi for watching our house and taking care of Trink - love ya! So we went to Spokane for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun. My sister and her family live there so my side of the family trekked up there for the week. One of the most fun things we did while we were there, besides Black Friday shopping of course (oh and besides getting the flu) was to take a boat ride around Coeurd'alene on the lake and look at the lights. It starts with a parade on the main street of Coeurd'alene. Since the parade is at night, all of the floats are lighted. So fun. Then when the parade ends, the fireworks begin. After fireworks, they have a lighting ceremony and turn on the Christmas lights to the whole town. Then we ate dinner and took a boat ride. The boat ride starts out at the resort and then takes a trip to the North Pole where Santa is waiting with Mrs. Claus. He stands in his toy shop and calls out Merry Christmas to each of the children personally. Abbie thought it was way cool to have Santa call her by name and point her out. The pictures are of the boat ride. It was my dad's birthday that night so the whole town got to celebrate with him. Happy Birthday DAD!!

Life in Texas...

Okay so here's my version of the week spent in Texas (all my other family bloggers have already added their posts). I should have started out with pictures of the crazy blizzard we drove through at the beginning of our adventure, but I was gripping the O.S. handle too hard to fumble for the camera. Weird weather - we hit everything from fog, to a snow blizzard to pelting rain (hydroplaning is not as fun as it used to be when I was a teenager) to lightening. Bizarre!! Anyway, once we made it there we had an absolute blast! Here are a few of the activities we did...

We started out celebrating the newest member of the Erickson clan. Baby Elle! It was so fun to see the whole family (except Dane who is missed but serving the Lord).


Texas State Fair...Apparently those words speak for themselves! Driving to the fair was like driving to Disneyland and the parking was about the same. I've been in the family nine years and never been to Texas during October. All I can say is WOW. I've never seen so many different kinds of people or fried food. I tried a corney dog (really good corn dog) and a fried s'more. The fried s'more was like eating a scone filled with chocolate and marshmallow. Very good.


The next adventure was the American Girl Bistro store. Yes, I have a six-year-old. I'd like to say that we went to that store entirely for her, but I would be lying. I LOVE toys. It was fun to let Abbie pick out a doll and some clothes. Then we went to Five Guys for lunch.

Rock Band Night. It was really great to see everybody's musical ability. In my case it was inability, but since there were no talent scouts there I was okay. We continued later that night back at Grandma and Grandpa's with a little Guitar Hero III. I rocked Jeff in our battle (okay so I only beat him at one song, but I still beat him).


We went to the pumpkin patch and tried to pick up pumpkins. Then we went on a hay ride. Abbie had so much fun with grandma and Conner.

Okay so I can't say anything about my hair except the word HUMIDITY. That is an ugly word in my vocabulary. Texas is great all except for that one thing. The BYU game as fun to go to, but not so much fun to watch - ouch. I wanted to cry. I guess you win some and lose some (wish the losses didn't have to be so bad).


We ended the trip with Abbie taking a ride on Poco, Bree's horse. What fun! I think Abbie officially wants to own a horse now. What a great way to spend our last day in Texas. Thanks Bree!

So now we're back home and starting life again...Oh and I've started an excercise routine and healthy eating plan. No more fried s'mores and corn dogs for me...

Is this cute or what?

Okay, so thanks to my wonderful sister-in-law, Barbie, I can now add all of this cute stuff to my blog. Now all I have to do is post consistently....Hmmmm....Anyway, thanks Barbie - I'm up and blogging!

Blogging Test

Okay - so I know everyone has already seen this picture about a hundred times, but oh well. I am testing out this blogging thing. Okay - so I can see that I'm going to need lots of tips and help from all of you professional bloggers out there! But I will start here. It's only been four months since my first post you know... I think I will start by getting all of my pictures off of my memory card and onto my computer. That way I may actually have an updated picture to put on here. This one is only two years old...I think my hair is a tad bit longer and Abbie is probably a tad bit taller...

Getting Started

Okay, Okay, Okay...So I see I need to start one of these. Maybe this will make me take more pictures and all of you will get to see more of the Erickson family in Utah. This is a work in progress so there will be more to come!