Day 25 - a week late

I really did mean to post a week ago but many other things got in the way. So here's the story of our last week. It's Christmas Eve and everything was fine until we got to church. I had just changed Lily's diaper and gave her to Cody so I could go wash my hands. I walk out of the nursery and see Cody carrying Lily (who is throwing up)to the kitchen. So we went home and she throw up about 5 more times, she would not keep anything down. We called our doctors office trying to find out what to do and they sent us to After Hours Pediatrics (who were very nice). We finally got home at 11:00 pm.

The next day Lily was sort-of OK. She was keeping stuffs down and acting a little like herself. So we decided that we could do both parents houses but in retrospect was a bad idea. Here's a picture of when Lily was feeling a little better.


That night Lily slept 12 hours straight which she never does. I'm lucky if she'll go 10. So she woke up 8ish and then took a nap at 10:30 and slept for 2 hours. She just got up on the couch and went to sleep, which is also very unLily. Here's a picture of that.


Sorry the story is so long I'll try to sum up the rest. Saturday I got sick but Lily was feeling a lot better. Sunday I was still not feeling great. Monday morning Lily throws up again (but I think this was because we give her some milk the night before. Um first time parents mistake.Oops.) And Cody starts feeling sick. Tuesday he starts to feel better and Lily is back to normal. And today Cody feels sick again. So that's where were at.

Hopefully tomorrow we'll all be better. This was not the Christmas vacation I was hoping for but I'm thankful that at least we're all together.

And here is a very cool picture of the mountains and Lily with one of her favorite presents.

Day 22, 23, & 24

Here are some older pictures again. We've been busy and I haven't taken any pictures lately. So this is back from October. We went to a thing called Punkin Chunkin. It's basically a mini fair with people shooting pumpkins out of these huge cannons.






These are some of Lily's other buddies. Mia and Selah.


And this is Cody with his buddy Dave.

Day 19, 20, & 21

My camera is out of batteries so I have to use some older pictures.


This one is of the Christmas wreath I made for our front door. I love the wreaths they have in the stores but their so expensive. So I made mine. I bought the wreath from Wal-mart for $5 and I got all the pretty stuff from Hobby Lobby for half off. It probably was under $15 so not too bad.


This one is from when we lived in our apartment and it's one of my favorite pictures.


And this one is from a couple of Christmases ago.

Day 18

Day 17

This is what happens when you give your one and a half year old crayons. They draw on your computer. And notice all the tape, this is what I have to do to keep her from opening and closing the CD drive constantly.

Day 15 & 16

Day 12, 13, and 14

Reading with daddy.


The latest in hat fashions.

And what's for dessert at fellowship lunch tomorrow.

Day Eleven

Well at least she's getting the idea.

On a side note what is wrong with the Golden Globe's people that they only give one nomination to the Dark Knight? Did they not see the same movie I did? Seriously what is wrong with them? Ok I'm done now. :-)

Day Ten

On Monday mornings Lily goes to a class called Junior Jumps Bounce n' Boogie. In the class the teacher does all sorts of fun things like dancing, playing with different kinds of objects, bubbles, an obstacle course and a ton of other things. In the obstacle course she set up a tunnel where the kids can crawl through. And this is Lily's favorite thing to do. It's all she wants to do. So I told Cody we should get her a tunnel for Christmas. And this is what we got her. She saw the box and started screaming with excitement. So of course we had to test it out.

Day Nine

Snow! As much as I do not like winter I do like the snow.

Day eight

She's cute!

Day Six & Seven

So I totally forgot to post yesterday. So here is day 6 and 7. The first picture is of Lily and me doing some stretching exercise.






And this picture is from when we were coming home one night and I had my sweet new camera in the car.

Day Five

The Speake Family Christmas

So Cody and I have this tradition of going to look at lights after the Christmas Eve service. Last year we found this house. I had heard about it on the radio and wanted to check it out. It's very cool. The family synchronized the lights to some Christmas songs. If you click on the link below the picture it will take you to their website, where you can watch some videos of the lights. If you live in my town you should definitely go check it out.

Day Four

Day Three

This picture is from when we went to the zoo several weeks ago. I know the picture is not new but I love it. I had just got a new camera and was very excited to try it out. And I got this awesome shot.

Day Two

So Cody came home last night and was like you need to come outside. I asked him why. And he's like just come outside. So my first thought was that something happened to his car. But I was pleasantly surprised to see this.



The moon, venus and jupiter. It's kind of small but if you click on the pictures you can see it a little better.

I'm in. . .

Day One
Here's my first picture. It is of Cody and Lily decorating our tree (which we put on our dining room table because Lily would never leave it alone otherwise).

Happy Thanksgiving!

28!

Yes I'm really 28. I've had lots of people tell me I look like I'm 18 but I really am 28 I promise.

I had a good birthday, we went to Le Peep for lunch. Then we came home and all three of us took naps. And then of course we went shopping. So it was a good day and I'm glad I got to spend it with my two favorite people.

Me too Cheeky... Me too

She's Definitely Mine

We Miss You

Since I'm not good with words I thouhgt I'd put up some pictures of Brent.

Spoon? Who needs a spoon?

What I need

So I am copying Megan and googled my name + needs and this is apparently what I need.

-Erika needs to eat a steak sandwich while doing sit-ups
-Erika needs divine healing
-Erika needs to go blonde again (I wish I could but I'm scared my hair would fall out)
-Erika needs to start acting like she is in her fifties
-Erika needs coffee
-Erika needs therapy
-Erika needs a lot of attention and care
-Erika needs to use her own brain.
-Erika needs to see three shrinks.
-Erika needs sleep

Rally Pictures

Here are the best pictures I have from the McCain/Palin rally. My camera isn't that great so most of them didn't turn out, plus the lighting was bad. But it was so much fun. We even got to see Robert Duvall.