Spring Break

Aubree had a couple of days off from pre-school for Spring Break. Eli took a couple of days off so we could have a stay-cation? (really is this what we are calling it?) We spend our first day at the beach with a group of our friends. Eli was the only dad, and he was such a trooper. We had so much fun with the family and friends that came to play. We also had a lot of fun at Cafe Rio as a treat after the beach. Daddy, the beach, and Cafe Rio what could be better???

Easter

Since Easter was on conference week-end we had our Erickson Family Easter egg hunt in between Saturday afternoon session and the Priesthood session. Aubree the seasoned hunter couldn't pick up the eggs fast enough: I think this is the first year Hayley really understood what she was doing: The girls had a lot of fun, and got a lot of fun things
I love it when Easter is on Conference weekend because there is time to do so many fun Easter activities. Our friends came over and we dyed eggs: ( the dads were both covered in dye by the end of this)
Then we made egg shaped rice krispie treats and let the kids dip them in lots of toppings
Last but not least we had a fun egg hunt in our courtyard followed by a lovely dinner with our good friends.

HOLLYWOOD!!!

In April we attempted to hike to the Hollywood sign. I say attempted because we figure we made it about 1/2 mile up and then turned around. If you have ever hiked to the sign you know that there are a lot of dogs on the hike, and even thought they are supposed to be on leashes very few are, and all though the owners are supposed to clean up after them very few do. So after 1/2 mile of the girls getting nervous every time a dog came by and dealing with all the fly's we were done. The girls were sports and didn't complain about going on our little adventure. We didn't reach the top but the girls did climb some tree's (Hayley really wasn't held against her will, it just looks like it.)We were almost to the car when Aubree fell and scrapped both of her knee's , luckily we had a first aide kit with big enough band-aids to please her.
I think we will try it again in the fall, there should less fly's then right???

Long time gone....

Its been so long since I actually updated my blog that I feel so behind that I don't know where to start. I am going to try and get caught up by the time Eli's next business trip is over. Here's to fingers crossed.

Sometimes I find our blog to be such a guilty pleasure and other times I just feel guilt. Its been months and I don't have a great excuse all I can do is try try again. So tomorrow will be the start of something new.

Computer update

So our friend was successful and was able to get all my pictures off the laptop. So now they are all together at last. The only down fall is they are all together on our external hard drive so once I can figure out how to upload them or get Eli to do it I promise I will catch completely up. I hate the guilt that come from being so far behind, so hopefully I can catch up and stay caught up.

Computer Drama!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I know I have been MIA for awhile. So here is the story: about a month ago my new acer laptop screen just went black. For no reason whatsoever, luckily it was still under warranty so off to TX to be fixed it went. Our desktop has been having issues for close to a year now. FRUSTRATING. It was too big and too expensive to be a paper weight, so while I was undergoing a project undertaking of getting all of our music onto I tunes it decided to crash big time. So Memorial day was spent at Best Buy buying everything we needed so Eli could fix it. Which he did, LOVE IT. Then on Wednesday my cute little lap top showed up. Yeah!!!! Oh wait I think there are pixels that are dead. Shoot, now we have to send it back to TX at least I kept all the packaging so I won't have to pay for that again. Then to add insult to injury I found out that my old laptop, that I first got when we moved to Cali to be able to email family, is dead. We have a friend that has to take the hard drive out of it so we can get all the info onto a junk drive. Once you take out the hard drive the laptop is done. So I am still trying to get all my pictures collected to catch up on my blog. Sometimes computers can be so frustrating.

Please Vote!!!!!!!

Alright the day is here!!!! PLEASE PLEASE watch Dancing with the Stars tonight...ABC. 7 pm in Utah..others please check your local listing!!!! Trey and Hope are the center couple.Write the number down when they first post it. It wasn't listed at the end last week. Each phone line can vote 5 times.........land and cell. The voting only last 30 minutes after the show ends. THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

ps watch for Necia and I in the audience.