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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Ok maybe you are now intrigued by my title, but I honestly don’t know where this post is going. I am going to just play it by ear, hopefully it’s not too too much rambling for you. TW and I went to church as usual on a Sunday then we went out to the inlaws, as usual. I was not too happy about having to work at 6pm to do inventory until midnight, which obviously if it’s 9:42pm right now they let me come home early!!! Anyways so TW had to drive me back down to my car, since we weren’t about to take the new car on the inlaws dirt road. The two youngest little girls, TW’s sister, Tracy’s kids, wanted to come with us, so obviously being the super cool aunt and uncle that we are said sure but go tell your mom. Laycee the middle aged girl got to sit in TW’s lap first and steer. I do remember the days of getting to steer, aww what fun those days were! While that was happening Kynlee, the youngest girl was telling me how she needed a seatbelt and I said don’t worry about it we’re only going down the dirt road it will be ok. This little girl was totally determined to wear her seatbelt! She didn’t quit at it until she got it unstuck from the seats! Her mom would be so proud! Well they dropped me off at my car and I said hang on don’t leave I want to take my self portrait with all you guys. I went to my car, got my camera and shucks……my battery died right there! I was pretty bummed. So we all said our goodbyes and I headed off to work while Kynlee got her turn to steer down the road. Maybe I do know what I’m going to write about now……… isn’t it funny how excited little kids get about something us big kids take for granted when they get an opportunity to be big? My picture today was taken with my phone of me steering my way to work. I do enjoy driving but certainly not as much as those two little ones!
So I challenge you guys to all find something that you take for granted that you once were told you weren’t “big enough” to enjoy! And I want to hear about it!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
My husband is an amazing orange peeler. I want the whole world to know it too! Personally I find it very interesting that he can do this, why……well when I peel an orange there are about 50 pieces!!!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Today I was in my last day of training at the census and we were out doing some actual interviews with people when our crew leader called us and told us to come in an hour early. When we got back he informed me that I was terminated……. really confused I got a phone number to call to main office and I just quietly walked out. As I left I immediately called the office and of course was left with nothing but a voicemail for some guy named Kelly. I left my message and was still sitting there really confused and racking my brain thinking of all the reasons I could have been the only one terminated in my group. I then got home and received a call back from Kelly, he tried his best to explain to me that somehow they couldn’t read either set of fingerprints I had taken so that meant I was basically put on a non working status (or in other terms was terminated) until further notice. He also mentioned that this has never happened before and that was why he wasn’t really sure how to explain it to me. Now I had been very warned that all these census people apparently can’t make up their mind and anything can change at any moment several times. I said to the man “ok well that sounds interesting, I guess I’ll just wait around to see if I’ll be on a working status later” Seriously not even 10 minutes later the man called me back and told me they didn’t like the policy the way it was currently and that I was put back on a working status. So I immediately left my house and when back up to the training site to keep working. So now I just feel like every unknown call on my phone is them telling me again that I cannot work. I bet it was my pesky thumbs that caused all these problems!!!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
TW called me today and asked me if I wanted to go watch the basketball game with him tonight. The regional tournament was happening and they would be playing the winner of the two teams that played so as a coach obviously he needs to be there. He said yea we can go eat too, I said that sounds great. He said we’ll just go in at eat at the concession stand………..I started to laugh and said it’s a date! Very quickly he assured me that he meant to say hospitality room, even still we were going on a date! :) Also while we were in town I convinced him that we needed (really really bad) to do some grocery shopping. Now something very interesting about the two of us is we used to go grocery shopping once a week together when we were dating in Fayetteville. I loved that time with him so much! I remember not caring about anyone else. I remember dreaming of the day that we would be the cute married couple shopping together. We used to play marco polo in the store. Now that is something that we’ve held on to and when we can’t find each other we start yelling “marco”!!! I still love grocery shopping with TW as much as I did before, but I think now it’s because it means he’ll be paying!!! :)

Enjoy!
-erika
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Yesterday was my first day of training and today was SOOOO boring! It is so hard to sit in uncomfy chairs from 8am to 4pm! Honestly how do all those kiddos go to school all day long and pay attention? I fell asleep in my chair, I got up to go to the bathroom probably 5 or 6 times, the times I wasn’t going I was refilling my water cup. We have two more days left then I’ll be out in the country backwoods of Huntsville pestering people about how many housing units are on their property. Please take the time to respond to these people. I learned today that the census is how they determine government funding as well as how many representatives you get for your state. I think that’s pretty important! Well if you haven’t figured it out by now I am a 2010 Census Enumerator. Basically I’ll be going around to have brief interviews with people as well as leave them a questionnaire and be off on my merry way. If you need a job they are hiring right now, check out 2010census.com for more info. It pays pretty well and they pay 50 cents a mile too.

Enjoy!
-erika
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
It is 12 weeks officially today, that means it is now the size of a large plum! Apparently most of it’s major systems are in place, but obviously still need lots of maturing. Right now it’s bone marrow is super busy making white blood cells. I went in on Friday for a doctors appointment and heard the heartbeat again, this time it was 160 bpm. That was a pretty exciting experience and makes it seem that much more real, since right now I just feel overweight and not pregnant.

You can see some imprints of road maps on my tummy, so sorry. I pulled up my pants to sit comfortably through some training today, you’ll hear more about it tomorrow.
Enjoy!
-erika
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Today is Sunday and there’s one thing I love most about Sunday, it’s the only day of the week that I don’t work (usually, unless I have a wedding planned). I love that the whole day is full of no technology, no worries for the day, nothing I have to get done, it’s all about relaxing and enjoying my family. I know there’s obviously a whole lot more about Sunday to enjoy and write about but I’m not focusing on that, I’m focusing on enjoying doing hardly anything. So my picture for today takes place on our fence in front of our home, where I sat today and watched the sunset.

Enjoy
-erika
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Sally and Cole. Cole called me and booked an appointment with me where we met at Common Grounds and I got to meet Sally. Cole is an Ag student here at U of A and Sally is in grad school in Little Rock. They will be getting married in Mt. Home at an outside venue (I LOVE outdoor weddings!!!) We had a lot of fun during their shoot. We started in Fayetteville to get the urban feeling images then we headed out to Cole’s family’s farm, I loved shooting there! :)
This first shot is sentimental to them. The day he proposed they were out shooting clay pigeons and he asked her to go get more shells……I have yet to see it but apparently he even made a box out of the shells for the ring!!!! This spot is so I am told about where they were engaged!

Yay for some doggie kisses! I love how their dogs totally describe their personalities!


They even had the bronco pulled out of the garage for a photo shoot!

I love the sunflare in this one! They had a celebration dinner here!

Pretty sure this one is my favorite shot!

Tanja captured this one and I love it! It makes me feel European!?!?!

This image is to show how amazing Tanja is! She’s throwing leaves into the air for us! I love how she looks so happy about it!!! :)

And here’s the actual result……

Enjoy!
-erika
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Ashton and Adam are such wonderful people! They are from my hometown and will be getting married on June 12th! So I have got to share how Adam proposed!!! It’s so cute. I won’t go into all the details because I just know I’ll mess them up but he was on a family vacation with her family down in Florida. They had a condo on like the 13th floor or something (see that’s probably one of those details I’ll mess up)…. and he enlisted his future family in law (along with random people on the beach) to spell out “Ashton will you marry me?” in the sand!!!! How adorable. I can’t imagine how large they had to have made that so you could see it all the way from up there! If I can I’ll try to get a photo of that for you all! They are Razorback fans and drove up here on a weekend when the Hogs were playing in Little Rock. They sported their fan gear and we walked all over campus for some great shots! I loved that Adam was getting text messages the entire session of important game updates from his little brother!!! There’s a shot of that in an earlier post!


Her eyes are so beautiful!


Look how happy they are together!!! Awww…..

This is my favorite shot of the day!
Enjoy!
-erika
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
This post is the image I took yesterday. I will post the one for today later this evening. I just didn’t want anyone to think I forgot!!! :) Yesterday I had the opportunity to drive to OKC. I was able to attend the sealing of Mark and Renee!!! I will write more about that when I make their blog post but let’s just say….. AMAZING!!! So with that said I drove a lot yesterday. Actually the entire day it seems like we spent in the car so I thought it would be fitting to get a self portrait describing my day….

Why don’t you guys tell me what YOU did for Halloween!!!!
Enjoy!
-erika
Keep posted for my Sunday self portrait!
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