Erica's Mile of Men

It's a bird, It's a plane...

It's a man on a motorbike!  My son is obsessed with motocross racing right now.

Last month we took him to the Adams county fair's Monster Trucks and Motorcross show and he loved it! I actually enjoyed myself as well, once we all got over the noise. (And my daughter screaming about it!)

I keep coming back to this image now.  Wanting to do something for him with it.  I'm just not positive what yet.

Wedding Vows

When I took this image, I was nearing my 6 year wedding anniversary.  It encompassses most of my first year knowing my husband.

The background is the dress I wore in our first wedding.  We had a justice of the peace ceremony in a rose garden 1 1/2 months after we met.

The rosary was my something borrowed, now being kept safely tucked away for my daughter.  It was my mother's something borrowed at her own wedding.

The ring was my something old.  It is my Great-Grandmother's first wedding rings that were melted down and reset when she married her second husband, my grandmother was still very young.  She wore this ring on her right hand afterwards.  I received the ring when I was 16 from my Grandmother.  I decided then and there that it would be my something old.  I wore it in my church wedding tied into the lace-up back of my gown.

And then our cake topper was something new.  I found this one on sale a week before the wedding when I was arranging to have flowers placed on top instead.

We now joke around that my something blue was in progress at the time.  I was 4 months pregnant with my son at out second wedding!

Sushi, it's whats for dinner...

Well not really, I wouldn't want my kiddos eating it after having it sit under hot lights for hours.

My kids are super picky eaters, but for some reason they love sushi.  I don't know why, I'm not such a fan of it.

While making it one night for them I decided that all the textures would be great for a picture though.

And here it is!

Sometimes getting the shot can end up being the shot.

I find it amazing the lengths we go to to get the shot sometimes.  This is Micheal Dunn, a friend and fellow photographer, wading into the fountain in a local park in Denver, Colorado, to get a shot of a young girl playing in the water as her father sat on the edge watching.

Jax's First Emergency Room Trip

Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado

At 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 27, 2010, my kids should have been asleep.  I have gotten used to the fact that this is very unlikely most nights, so instead the kids head to their room at 8 o'clock and are supposed to play quietly.  I've given up on enforcing the in your bed method as I end up spending the next two hours making return trips up and down the stairs every five minutes or so.  That night was a bit different, they were playing quietly then all of a sudden my 4 year old son was at the top of the stairs screaming.  Not an unusual occurrence seeing as they fight alot when they are tired, but this scream was different.  I turned the corner to see him with his hand holding his head and blood gushing down the side of his face and across his chest.  Nope, not the usual scream.

We got downstairs to the bathroom, got him cleaned up, I called my husband at work and ee figured out where the closest emergency room was.  Half an hour later I was checking him in.  That's when we heard the story of what happened.

I must preface this by saying that my kids are very creative and extremely industrious.  I encourage it to a point. That night they had decided to turn the mattress on the bed into a slide, Char pushed Jax down the slide, he fell and landed on the corner of a Lego.  Yes, a LEGO!  The nurses took a look, put some numbing gel on and sent us to the waiting room.

While sitting in the waiting room with a 3 year old and a 4 year old I had to find some way of keeping them entertained.  We started playing I-Spy.  I-Spy continued into the doctor's office where we waited for him to get his stitches.  This set of images is the result of our game of I-Spy, with a shot of Jax waiting in the center.