November already?

I sure as heck can't believe it's the last week of October. Where did this month go!? Wow... well... That's crazy.

NOW, I meant to make this post like last Sunday, but never found the time. SO, here we go. Every Wednesday night for the next 3 weeks, WPSH is playing Holly's Lawson songs on the radio. Holly is a 16 year old from MI who has the most amazing voice on the face of the planet. I've been following her on Youtube for quite a while. She's super sweet and is amazing at everything she does. If you'd like to check her out, go to www.youtube.com/user/hollycheerbb22. If you'd like to listen in this Wednesday at 6:30 MST, please go to www.wpsh.net and click on the 'listen now' link. You'll love what you hear, promise!

Last night was super fun. I went to Ikea with Tiffany Howard. We had dinner there and then played hide and seek through the store. Until we were kicked out, that is. Ha, ha!

RIP Kara, who was also hid and killed by a car yesterday. 2 things I'm starting to really hate: Cars & Cancer. :P

Please keep Tay in your prayers as her health has started to fall a slight bit.
Thanks guys!!

Love you!

Erika

Blood, Love, Hope, Lust, Steam (And a very special Happy Birthday!)

Happy 18th birthday sweet angel, Katelyn Marie Thelma Mikolasy! Yesterday was Kat's birthday. We went to the cemetery, had cake, and released balloons into the air. There were a few people there other than just my family. It was wonderful =)

Now, as for the Blood, Love, Hope, Lust, Steam part.. well.. to say the least, THE NEW SUGARLAND ALBUM (THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE) CAME OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For those of you that are crazy and don't know how obsessed I am with Sugarland, now is time for you to learn. You just learned that you know the #1 Sugarland fan in the history of the world. I got the deluxe edition of the CD (of course) and I'm watching the video of their Incredible Machine tour right now. Jennifer Nettles is totally rocking that hoop skirt. Yeah, no one knows what I'm talking about. I swear I've been waiting for this for like, 3 years. Just amazing! I love all of the songs. Really, guys, go buy the album, you won't regret it.

Now that we have that excitement over with, let's move on to more important stuff. First off, POSSIBLE BENEFIT CONCERT for Taylor Love coming up in the next month. Now, EMPHASIZE POSSIBLE as much as you can, I don't know if it will actually happen. Let me know if you'd be interested in attending, or for that matter, it is a semi - open mic performance concert, so if you'd like to perform, shoot me a message or just comment here.

RIP Madison Mecum, who was hit and killed by a car two Thursdays ago. Miss and love you forever sweet girl!

Lets see, what else do I have to say today? Hm, well, I won an autographed poster of Sugarland yesterday. Yeah, Holly, if you are reading this, it's true. But then again, you have your own, so it's not that impressive. I'm catching up to yah! Ha, ha.

I believe that is all for now =) Pretty exciting post there, wasn't it? Yeah, sure.

Love you all!

"Little Miss You'll Go Far"

Barrettes, Competitions, Who Knows What!

Stef (the friend of mine who is selling the Taylor Love Barrettes with me) told me today that we sold 100 Barrettes! Thank you Miriam Castle for helping us get there!!!! =) If any of you are interested.. you know, you can always shoot me an email, respond to this post, or give me a call! =) Thanks guys!

Now, get this, I'm in this competition, this poetry competition, and I just found out I was selected to move on to the semifinals! There are only NINE other semifinalists in the competition!! I would post the poem I am competing with, but the truth is, I don't remember which one it was.. I've submitted so many I get utterly lost sometimes when they just give me a title to my poem. =) Also, with this, I am being published again! You know last time when I said that excitement just never wears off? It's still going strong on me. I was dancing around my room for a good hour or so, still can't believe it =)

This week is Fall Break, so my dad is taking my brother and I to California. We're going to Disneyland and all, the whole shiz-bang. Ha, ha. =)

Have yourselves a wonderful week ahead of yah! Make it beautiful! Xoxo!

Erika

Miles for Melanie.. and Faith

SOOOOOOOOOO.. I was gonna do this post like, last Saturday, but here it is on Wednesday. Oh well. Anyways, Saturday I ran a 5k for a friend of mine, Melanie, and it was a little bit in memory of Faith. I finished with a time of 32 minutes, and it was a lot of fun.
Tay is home and doing well =) Hallelujah!
Ok, now, I don't know if I've posted this before.. but I have something exciting to tell y'alls. I am going to be recording a CD in the near future!! Yes! My own CD! More info later =)
Love ya!

Erika

Photo Contest

Goooooooooood gosh..... heyo!
I just wanted to let you all know that I got 2nd in a photo contest at the Children's Medical Center in DC!!! I was so excited! =) Here is the photo:

Fun Weekend =)

Crazy good weekend here. So, Friday night I took Caroline out to her yearly birthday dinner, we went to Pizzza Pie Cafe and it was so much fun. After we watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid at my house. The movie wasn't like I expected it to be but it was okay. Not one I'd watch again though. I didn't really like it but it was kind of cute to see once. Anyways, then she spent the night at my house and we stayed up until like one in the morning seriously on the floor laughing. Oh it was so fun. The next morning my grandma came over and we cleaned the house for my mom to pay her back for dinner. For some reason Caroline stuck around and we made lunch for my family. After that my grandma left Caroline and I went to the Bean Museum and then we walked over to the Wilkinson's Center to go bowling. When we were just outside of the Wilkinson's Center, we ran into Brit! She was a crisis counselor at the school when Kat died, so I got to know her pretty well. I showed her my poetry and we had a lot of fun together. Anyways, until July of this year I hadn't seen her since the summer of 5th grade. Then, on the 3rd of July, Vivian and I were at the Freedom Festival in downtown Provo getting dinner when I ran into Brit there. Weird, I know! I was so excited to see her! Anyways, I only got to see her really quickly and then we left to go to Stadium of Fire. But that's not the point. The point is I haven't seen her in forever and there she was in the weirdest place again! Ha, ha, I was so happy to see her. She's a really good friend of mine and I've missed her a ton. She gives the best hugs!
Any who, then we went bowling and had a fabulous time, walked home, and then Caroline went home after that. It was wayyy fun!
Today I got sick. My sinus infection came back so if I start fainting again in school y'all will know why. I hope it doesn't get as bad as it did last time.
Today, as you might know, is the Taylor Love Triathlon! I was so sad I missed it this year, last year it was in the summer so we were able to go. Not this year. Anyways, I heard it went really well and it was a lot of fun and raised a ton of money. Yay!
Also, I got a Youtube account, and I'm debating whether to start posting cover videos up on it or not. You tell me. Think I should? Be honest.
Hope you have all had a beautiful weekend!
Well, I'm out, I smell brownies in the other room, I better go check that out. Love you!

Erika

Happy day =)

Heyo my little blog followers =) Good afternoon! Happy almost Friday!! Remember a few days ago when I said forgive me if I don't post for a month.. yeah.. well, I would assume you would already know to ignore that. Ha, ha.

Now, I have some super exciting news! I got an essay I wrote published today. Yes, another! EEEPPPP!! I'm so excited. This is one I wrote about Faith. I will have to post it here as soon as I can.. don't have too much time right now or I would!

Anyways, also, this guy who works for my dad is gonna let me use his recording studio or something to do my own cover CD! Whoo hoo =) I'm so excited.. more info later if you'd like to hear some of my stuff!

Also, I know on my "Buzz" post on Gmail I said I would start updating more on Taylor as much as I could.. ignore that for a little while. I promise I will start updating more, and her mom also said she would try to get on top of the blog, (Craaazzzzzy life!) so be watching! I don't promise how often though... ;)

Anyways, I am off to my voice lesson! Love you! Big hugs to all!!

Erika