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.

Lots going on

There's been a lot of stuff going on lately. Cody is going back to school to get his MBA. Thankfully the first year will be online so we'll still get to see him.

Then Lily is growing so fast. We had her 15 month appointment today. She's 24 and 1/2 lbs (70th percentile), 32 and 1/2 inches long (90th), and her head measurement (not sure what it was) is also in the 90th. So I'm hoping she's going to be smart like her daddy. She's also saying more words everyday. One of her favorite words is "shoes". Just like mommy. ;-)

Tomorrow Cody and I get to go to see McCain and Palin speak at a rally. Very excited. I loved Palin's speech at the Republican Convention.

We spent some time with our good friends Pat and Jasmine. We miss you guys.

I redesigned my blog thanks to The Cutest Blog on the Block website. They have awesome free blog templates. I love the new one, I was sooooooo bored with my last one.

And then of course our family reunion. We had such a great time. It was so good to see everybody. It does make me a little sad that we don't live closer to everyone, but our next reunion is 2010. So it's not too far away til we see everyone again.

We left on Tuesday morning at 5'o clock (I figured Lily would sleep in the car for a couple of hours, which she did). We got to Oklahoma City a little after 3, so we chilled and Lily got to run around the hotel room. After a while we met up with Cody's parents for dinner. Then the next morning we left 7ish and got to our location around 2ish. Then it was a party for the next 4 days. We played volleyball, walleyball, golf, went shopping, played games (my favorite one was "Hug Uncle Rick"), did a talent show, and other things that I can't remember. We even got in trouble when we played walleyball at a community center, cough cough Uncle Dan, cause we were so loud. So needless to say we really did have a great time. And Lily was a good little traveler. She was great on the way there but on the way back she caught a cold and wasn't feeling very good so she was a little more fussy. Then the day we got back Cody got sick. And then the next day I wasn't feeling that great. But now we're all better.

This picture is one of my favorites from the reunion. Lily with cousin Carter.

So we've been very busy, hopefully the next couple of weeks will slow down a little.

Family Reunion

The only way to travel


Windmills


The biggest cross in the western hemisphere


Dog pile


33 people


The grievance committee


A crack on the windshield on the way home


More to come.