We hope to go to the Austin rodeo on Friday night! (And I’m talking the actual rodeo, not the rides and petting zoo!) But until then, enjoy this picture from Rilyn’s first Houston rodeo in March 2005. I was just getting into editing pictures then, so I did have a little fun with the picture! 😉
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| Could it be?!? Mommy and Rilyn on a LONGHORN?!? |
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| Now that is much better! 😉 |
Got something fun in the mail today!
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I got my fourth $500 ‘prize’ from online offers today! So exciting! We are using this $500 American Airlines gift card to fly to my cousin’s wedding in California this summer!
I spent about $40 on this deal and did it in November, so it took a little longer to receive the gift card this time, but I’m not complaining! So far I have received $2000 total in online offer prizes and I have another $500 visa gift card coming in the next couple months and a new Dell laptop worth over $1000 that is coming in the next few months! I have already ‘taught’ seven other friends and two have already received their $500 visa gift cards!
Again, if you are interested in how I get these, click here or just ask me!
In case you are wondering about my previous $1500 I made, click here, here, and here!
Today, I signed up both my girls for soccer for the first time! This is very cool for James and I because we both grew up playing the sport and we both played varsity soccer in high school. Will the Paquette girls be as successful as their daddy? (I was ‘all district honorable mention’ for defense but James- he was a total soccer stud in school!) Only time will tell-March 6th is their first game! Check out our old soccer pictures!
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| little James |
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| I think I was 12 here |
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| high school club team |
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| James high school club team |
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| James playing in high school |
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| Check out who is the #1 goal scorer in DFW! |
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Got engaged-2000
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| James’ mom was hiding behind a tree taking this shot! |
Graduated from Texas A&M-2001/2002
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| Both class of 2001-James just double majored so he graduated a year later |
Got married! 2001
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| May 26th |
Started our first ‘real’ jobs-2001/2002
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| James an accountant at HalliburtonI was a kindergarten teacher |
Bought our first home and moved to Houston-2002
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| Look at all our mismatched furniture from our college days!And yes, there was a play gym left in our backyard by the previous owners! |
Had first child-2004
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| Rilyn-June 3rd |
Had second child-2006
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| Ella-January 5th |
Moved to Manor to live in community with friends-2007
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| our home |
Had third child-2008
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| Asher-April 24th |
Rilyn started kindergarten-2009
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| August 2009 |
Wow! I think it is safe to say that we had a busy decade! As we look into the next decade wondering what God has in store, we pray that it is a little less ‘eventful!’ 😉 Happy 2010!!
After our family Christmas in the morning, we drove an hour north to Temple for the Erickson Christmas!
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| our Ella |
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| Barbie movie!! |
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| Don’t you just love the looks you get from your kids
when they open presents?!? |
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| spoiled with gifts |
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| my nephew, Caden’s, first Christmas! |
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| wonder and awe of the season |
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| Asher was so excited to see his new chair! |
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| Their new uncle Eric, a police officer, gave Asher a talking police helmet.
Looks like the girls will be using it first for awhile! |
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| The Erickson clan: Back row: Jessica, Eric, Caden, Jeff, Becca, Norine, Ella, Rick
Front row: Rilyn, James, Asher, and me |
We just got home spending the ‘first Christmas’ of the season with James’ family. We always enjoy spending time with them-don’t get me wrong, but, GOSH! Asher sure makes it hard to really enjoy the holidays right now. Is it his age? Or that he is a boy? Or a sign of things to come with his personality? I don’t know, but what I do know is that pictures don’t lie…(okay, sometimes they do when I cleverly photoshop them, but I promise, these pictures were not photoshopped!) 🙂
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| ‘Bruiser’ was his nickname on this trip because he received
a busted bottom lip, a rubber burn on his chin from the mall playcourt, and an unknown head injury |
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| Lollipops kept him content, (he still is looking for trouble in this picture),but if
you dare take the lollipop away because there is nothing but the stick left… |
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| you get this |
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| and this |
James’ Christmas in Fort Worth could be summed up as “Sprite and Saltines”. He got food poisoning right before we left and he never fully recovered the whole time we were there. Poor guy!
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| blah! |
The girls had fun playing the ‘money game,’ as they called it, in Oma and Papaw’s dining room.
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| Jackpot! |
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| There was no shortage of fun for the girls! Ella with her game face! |
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| Cindy, Braden, Ben, Asher, Ella, Bear, Rilyn, James, Mandy, Allen, and me |
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| the kiddos |
It was a great weekend at my little sister, Jessica’s wedding! We all had important roles to play and her wedding turned out beautiful! We are very excited for our new brother in law, Eric King. Some highlights during the ceremony were Ella tripping as she was walking up the stage, me getting to wear 5 inch hot pink high heels, and Asher stopping in the middle of the aisle and had to be lured by daddy holding a lollipop (in which he devoured the whole thing including half of the stick and we couldn’t get the stick out of his hand for pictures because he would start crying!)
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| Before the wedding we all got manis/pedis!
We all had tank tops that read ‘bridesmaid’ or ‘flower girl’! Of course Jessica’s said, “Mrs. King” with a crown on it! |
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| me and my girls before the ceremony
Classic Ella face! |
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| my beautiful sister, Jessica, and me |
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| the girls peeking downstairs at all the guests arriving! |
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| the new Mr. and Mrs. Eric King! |
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| Asher kept his tux and flower on all night! |
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| Ella dancing on daddy’s feet! |
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| sisters dancing the night away! |
I am a sucker for buying class photos and yearbooks. Why? For reasons below. I knew my Lexington Jr. High (in Cypress, CA) yearbook would be useful one day! 😉
If you own a television, you have probably heard of the new Fox show, glee. I do not watch it regularly, but I’ve seen an episode or two because some of my friends love it. When I first saw the Spanish teacher Will Schuester, played by Matthew Morrison, I said to myself, “That guy looks just like I guy I went to school with-Matt Morrison.” Nothing clicked. ‘Matthew’ and ‘Matt’ are apparently totally different names to me. 🙂
Finally a couple of days ago, at a totally random time of the day, it clicked! I DID go to school with him! But I had foggy memories of when.
I looked him up in my yearbooks, and it turns out I only went to 8th grade with him. Apparently, I thought he was ‘funny’ as I wrote that below his picture. (Yes, I went through every student I knew in my jr. high yearbooks and wrote something about them on their picture! Again, it must have something to do with my curiousity for people.) I remember he was in Theatre Arts at Lexington and I must of had a class or two with him since I thought he was ‘funny’!
Here is his 8th grade picture circa 1993:
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For those who know me, I love People magazine!!! I watch E! News every night. What can I say? I’m curious about people. That’s why I love blogs too! So when James asked me where I wanted to go one morning in Vegas, I already knew. Madame Tussaud’s wax museum-home of famous wax people! We had a good time taking pictures with everyone!
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| Hanging with Brangelina |
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| James man crush-Justin |
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| After news broke on Tiger, James thought this was a more appropriate picture with him |
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| Jeff and James dunking on Shaq |
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| dancing with Beyonce’ |
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| RIP Michael (sniff sniff) |
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| James trying to play like Stevie |
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| W. |
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| Just chillin with the guys-Ben and George |
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| Johnny! |
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| Chatting it up with Cameron |
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| Shame on James, good thing Jessica is single! |
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| Britney teaching me a few moves |
the paquettes 