Into the Rabbit's Hole and Out into the Scary World we Call Our Nations Capital Where a Queen Wants to Chop Off my Head!

Eva, Ammon and I took an adventure to our Great Nation's Capital! We woke up at five in the morning, hopped, skipped and jumped in the car and drove over to the nearest gas station and filled the car up with a yummy breakfast of petroleum goodness and filled our inner anatomy with the human petroleum (Energy drinks) to help keep us awake. Well... we almost made to DC when we took a wrong turn and got stuck in traffic going the wrong way and then guess what happened...? My internal emergency bladder alarm starting screaming (making me regret those two energy drinks I downed) and I wasn't sure if I could hold it! The next exit was only two miles so I told myself little words of encouragement that I could make it. Who would've guess two miles would take TWENTY FREAKIN MINUTES! Then when we get off the exit there is NO gas station to be found. Apparently the guys in the white house missed the common sense and courtesy memo, AYE? We might be the land of the “free” but we sure aren’t the land of the “let’s put gas stations off exits just in case there is an emergency and because that would be the smart and nice thing to do.” Well, at this point I have tears streaming down my face and I pull into the first available building I see. You'll never guess what building it was! If you look closely at the sign above me in the picture you might notice it says "Immanuel Christian School." I go running inside a Christian school with signs that say "Jesus loves me" and little kids in uniforms giving me funny looks.

After my little bathroom ordeal we finally found parking (it only took about an hour and a half) and packed up the baby just happy to be free of the car!

We are standing in front of the Holocaust Museum in this picture, which was our first and last museum of the day. All three of were tired and our stomachs were getting mad about the lack of substance so we decided to call it an early day and we got a hotel so that we could get our beauty sleep and get ready to explore the capital all day the next day.

This is a picture of what the houses looked like in DC. It is also a picture of my car.

This a picture of the outside of The Lincoln's Memorial and a traffic light.

Notice how both of the the pictures are on the road? That is because that is all we got to see of the D.C. the next day. I drove around for almost two hours trying to find parking. I almost went up a wrong way street twice and I never knew which way to turn. There were signs that would tell you to go one way but only during certain hours. My GPS would tell me to go left but there would be two or three lefts at an intersection. After being lost for two hours with a GPS I started crying and Eva and I decided to go home.

So Eva and I used a tank and a half a gas, drove for over ten hours, and got a hotel room and all we got to experience was one museum (which was a GREAT, jaw dropping museum) and the streets of D.C. oh ya! We also got to see a lot of scary homeless dudes and trash all over streets. By the time we got home I was feeling a little sheepish but it was still a fun adventure!

Just a Little Rewind in Time

This is inspired by Karlee Ericksen and dedicated to those who shared these memories with us.





Nate and Jessica got Married January 12, 2007




The coldest day EVER! I think I speak for everyone when I say our hearts were warm! :)




About a month into our marriage Fiji joined our family.






The next year we got a "Thing 3"





Karlee got with child 3 months later! That was fun to be sick and miserable with someone else. Nate enjoyed having a his brother going through cranky wife problems with him.



December 14, 2008 Ammon David Ericksen joined us in the world. Ammon has made life ten times better. He is worth every gray hair and balding head!





January 2009




We had to make Fiji pose for this picture. Can you tell? He wasn't to sure about Ammon at first. Now they are great buds!








February 2009. Ammon is always smiling!
















Ammon's first Easter! I did this picture also because Ammon looks so funny and cute but mostly funny with his balding hair.










We had so much fun the summer of '09!! We went hiking and bike riding every week! We also took Ammon on his first camping trip. Ammon also went to flamming Gorge for the first time.

My Toddler has Saddle Sores

Ammon is finally walking! His first step was on December 19th, 2009 but after that first step Ammon developed an attitude that he was to cool to walk and he was back to crawling. Until.. this last week and now he walking every chance he gets. It is so stinking cute I can't even stand it. He looks like he is bull-legged and he is fast. It is almost errie to be sitting somewhere and then all of a sudden see a little brown hair munchkin soaring past. Yay! for Ammon! Now that he can walk maybe he can start cleaning the house?

The Beginning of Every Good Fairy Tale...

The start, the beginning, the first couple of lines that draw you in like a fish to the bait and then it hooks you in the lip refusing to have mercy as it snares you in. I would love to claim that our life is a fairy tale and I am a princess where Nate is my prince and we live in an enchanted castle where the dishes sing and the floor vacuums itself and.. and.. well, I'll try not to get too carried away. Alas, my life is not a fairytale (though sometimes I feel it gets pretty dang close to crossing into the land of make-believe) and my first blog is not going to engross you with words of entrigue. In all honesty I don't think any of my blogs will be too inspiring and gut-wrenching. I hope that I have made your expectations nice and low for my blogging capabilities. And they lived happily ever after...