all good things don't end

            FAMILY

       When it comes down to it family is what keeps me sain.. Life can come at you with full force and knock you right on your toosh, but who will always be there to pick you back up and give you sweet words of encouragement like "Better luck next time" or "Man that was really dumb"? Thats right it is family that will always be there. I have always said that a true friend is someone that you may have lost contact with or haven't talked to in months but, when you do cross paths again it is like no time had past at all. That is in essence what my family is all about, we are friends who will no matter the circumstance rise up and lift you up to become an even better you. That being said it has been a CRAZY past few weeks filled with jokes, games, laughs, tears of joy and tears from cat fights, Yellowstone, Lewis and Clark Caverns (which we all found out were actually not even seen by Lewis nor Clark..) swimming at Rexburg Rapids, the ZOO, Rigby Lake, Daniels Resivoir, and the list goes on... My personal favorite were the cat fights.. I love them. Not only because they remind me of the hair pulling, arm scratching, name calling times growing up but that we are infact human! :) None of this would have been possible without the help from our master choreographer and leading light the one the only TAMI ERICKSON our mother! She really is the most amazing woman I know, she is the glue to our family going out of her way to make things run smoothly so the rest of us have a killer time! One thing that I think we loose sight of is that time doesn't stop and cannot be slowed down and sometimes when you don't have a second to breath time only moves by more swift.. so the only thing you can do is pop in a xanax and enjoy the time we have together! ;) For me some of the best times are of those just lofing around eating M&M's drinking Root Beer floats and just talking. Even then time doesn't rest but at least we got a few words in! When all is said and done, the bags are packed back up, and nothing is forgotten.. (by nothing I mean you all owe mom for shipping back everything you left!) We look back and can only think about the next time all of us friends can come together for yet another Erickson family reunion. I love you all so much and pray daily for your health to be continually strong and for an angel to watch over you while you sleep, until next time stay young!