Cooper Sven Erickson

Cooper Sven Erickson born September 27, 2009 at 10:47am. Weighing in at 6lbs 14oz and 19.25" long.




In front of the hospital. Since we went in at 4 in the morning, we had to walk to the other end of the hospital to the ER entrance, then walk all the way back to the birthing center.







Big sisters. They are very happy to have a little baby brother.



Our first family picture.









Getting ready for his car ride home.

Random september pics

We are counting down the days until the baby comes! We are trying to get things ready like the baby's room and Jordan's been working on redoing a dresser for me. We got the bassinet out and I washed it all.. but now I need space for the bassinet which means Jordan's Arcade needs to move back into the garage! One way I got him to do this with out to much trouble was let him buy more parts for it so now he HAS to have it in the garage to work on it! He bought a new coin machine for it off of eBay! Here he is very excited about this!

So I decided to make a purchase of my own on eBay! Hey it's for the baby! I have been looking at diaper bags and trying to decide what I really want. I really liked the petunia pickle bottom bags.. but those are so pricey! Well I have been searching eBay for a good deal.. which wasn't happening... why do people pay almost full price for a USED bag! Go spend $20 more than what your paying and buy a new one... I just wanted a good deal. Well one night I wasn't sleeping well... and I got on the computer and there was the bag that I wanted I had never seen this one posted on Ebay yet. And she had a buy it now price that was cheaper than I had seen for this style of bag.. I couldn't help myself. She had just listed it and I knew for that price it wasn't going to last long. Here it is...Emma showing it off!

I wanted to take some pictures of Dottie one day and this is all she was going to give me... these pictures just crack me up!



The girls were bored one day and wanted to take pictures of themselves so I said go ahead.. this is what they came up with!
Not sure where Emma was going with this one.. but I love Dottie's eyes!
Dottie trying to get Emma's eyes!
Emma drew the pictures and taped it to the wall.. I find new pictures taped to the walls everyday!
The fort they built in their room.
Always posing for a picture.

And she is off...

to Kindergarten. And she LOVES it to say the least! I was so nervous for her but she was just fine. Jordan was able to go in late to work so he could be home to walk her to school. We only live like 2 blocks from the school but most kids ride the bus because there are no sidewalks up to the school. So she is the last bus stop. We put her on the bus and then walked down to the school to see her walk into class. At the bus stop there was another little girl going to kindergarten and she was in the same class as Emma. They instantly became friends. Then the next day I find out that another little girl (the one that taught Emma how to ride her bike with no training wheels) Was also in kindergarten and in the same class. So those 3 girls always sit together on the bus too.. pretty cute.

Eating breakfast on the first day!
All dressed and ready to go!
Waiting for the bus. The girl in front of her is her new friend.

Just off of the bus and waiting to go into class.
Emma's classroom.
Dot was so upset that she couldn't stay and go to school with Emma. But once she found out when she got home that it was time to go to playgroup she was all excited that it was just her and I.
She survived the first day.
It turned out to be a warm day she was hot, tired and hungry.
So Dad gave in and gave them and ice cream cone!!!

Mt. St. Helens Summer '09

Me (Jordan) and the girls went up to Mt. St. Helens with Nolan, Travis & Mandy and their kids. It was really windy when we first went up there with the dust and ash blowing around making it kind of hard to see the crater on the mountain. It cleared up at the end and was a pretty nice day overall. We went up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory. This was our first time going to this observatory and it was really nice. They show you a video about the eruption (with sweet animations) and then afterwards the curtain and screen raise and show a nice view of the mountain.
We use to always go up to the Windy Ridge Observatory which is due East of where we were. It has a lot more of the burnt trees and a burnt out car that didn't make down the mountain in time. This spot shows a lot more of the mud flow and destruction. Pretty amazing how powerful mother nature can be.








The mud slide from the eruption didn't make it quite this far, but the pyroclastic flow swept through this area just north of the mountain and took out all of the vegetation. You can still see some of the dead trees blown over. The flow came from the right of the picture. You can still see some of the trees in the background that were burnt, but not knocked down.



The lake on the right was formed from the eruption by damming up one of the streams. You can see how much the Toutle River has carved out all of the ash and mud from the eruption.


The views up there were pretty amazing and I think most of us learned a lot about what happened. We've been to 2 of the Cascade volcanoes this year (3 if you count skiing on Mt. Hood). Maybe we should try to see a couple more.