Look who's back!

I'm sorry it's been so long since I last blogged... life is crazy! Especially with the new term starting, and all the other projects going on, I have had almost no extra time to sit down and crank this out. I'm excited to though now.


I hope you like the new look of my blog and the new title. I've never really experienced with a ton of format stuff, so I think it looks a ton better. A lot more of my personality comes through this with layout than with the last couple.


Life has been crazy! Since I last blogged, I have started teaching guitar lessons. I only have one official student right now, but I have a few more signing up after Christmas and another few that have come for a lesson or two and still are debating to sign up. If anyone is interested... I charge $7 for a half hour lesson ($28 a month). I've loved teaching. It's so fun to teach others a love for my passion.


I've also started work on my next CD. It will be a cover CD this time, featuring only my songs that I've written and should be finished around Christmas. I'm also recording a special CD for Sara, as we have so many songs that we relate to together, I figured I put them all in a CD so she can have them to play whenever she wants.


Both the Atlanta and the Indiana Sugarland concert were in the last two weeks or so. I was able to get a few concert calls from ATL and 14 from Indiana... my Sugarfamily sure knows how to heal me. Since then I've been coping with losing my girls a lot better. I got to speak with a friend I haven't gotten to speak with since the stage collapse almost three months ago today. She's been in the hospital since the fall and was allowed to go home today. It was amazing to hear her again. I still remember that night like it was last, and will never forget it. But that's what healing is. It's accepting your loss while hanging onto the memories. I don't know that it's a memory I want to remember, but I'll never forget it.

During the Indiana concert, instead of painting "love" on the flag that they parade around the arena during "Stand Up", she spray painted "heal". And yes, we are healing.


We had UEA Break a few weeks back. My family and I went to Disneyland. We spent a day in Disneyland and a day in DCA. It was a ton of fun and I was glad I could go with my mom and my brother since I usually just go with my dad.


We finally got all of our Alabama plans finalized. We are going to Birmingham on the 27th of December, spending a day and a half there, then driving to Nashville and flying back home New Years Eve. I'm all to excited. It's so weird saying to Sara "I'm going to meet you next month!" It's about the best feeling in the world, really. I am so excited.

Halloween was so fun. I went to my friends house and made cotton candy and ate donuts. It was a ton of fun. They really go all out for Halloween. I went trick or treating a little bit with Caroline. I was dressed as Jennifer Nettles... of course. It was way fun and everyone loved my costume. The hat is what really took it over the top. I made it myself, complete with heart with wings beads, feathers, and a zipper that goes around the entire length of the hat. I LOVE it. I stole it from Caroline and thought it was so cool how I dressed it up. I was pretty happy with it myself.


I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO SNOW. I am SO excited for winter. I don't know why, because usually I HATE the snow. But this year, I can't wait for it to start falling. Hoping that storm they're talking about tomorrow is going to dump on us.


Well, enjoy your weekend, much love!

Little Miss Erika