Yankee Boy Basin.

Funfact: today I went four wheeling to an elevation of over 11,300 feet. Beat that. {no, just kidding, I live in a state with a couple dozen mountains over 14,000 feet so it's pretty easy to beat, but still} Yankee Boy is easily my favorite ATV ride that my family takes. The road is pretty easy and it takes you to these gorgeous waterfalls!

Let's be honest here, I would pick mountains over a beach any day and that's probably because of places like this ^^

Guess who's really thankful to live in such a pretty place and have such awesome parents? {hint: me}

-Erica

{p.s. only 81 more days until I'll be blogging all about LONDON!}

bike riding in ridgway.

Last weekend Lori, my mom, and I took the prettiest bike ride from Ridgway reservoir into town. It was so fun getting to see another beautiful part of Colorado in a way I have never seen it before! {Seriously though, before last weekend, my bike probably had a total of about 20 miles on it. I never rode it... sorry to my parents for making them haul it out to college for me to never ride it...}

Ahh, Colorado.

-Erica

I've changed my URL!

Surprise! I've changed my URL, because frankly, I couldn't handle seeing "sincerely" one more time. No one should let a 16 year old decide her own blog url, really. Also, because I'm entirely uncreative, I've changed my URL to good ol' ericamichelledecker.blogspot.com {and yes, I would have preferred ericadecker.blogspot.com but it's taken by someone. who has never used it. I'm not bitter, don't worry}

-Erica

zach's homecoming//ouray & black canyon.

wow, am I behind in blogging! As I wrote in this post, Zach is home! That means that a couple weekends ago a lot of the family came into town for his homecoming talk. We got to take them to Ouray and the Black Canyon... {get ready for an excessive amount of photos}

Ouray:

Black Canyon:

they told me to take a picture of her with the lizard. she was not amused.

Random:

sometimes my afternoon runs are marvelous ^

I was driving home from the store and, you know, saw this beautiful view. not the best picture, but y'all can deal.

Colorado is beautiful, right? 

-Erica

summer goals:

so I was stalking Sam's blog and I decided that one of my summer goals is learning to make videos! Because why not, right?

Look at this video she made!

Yeah, I just thought I'd throw that out there. Happy {almost} Friday! This weekend we have a ton of family in town for Zach's homecoming. Including the cutest nieces and nephews, so I'm looking forward to a great few days!

-Erica

if this is summer, it's here.

Hello!

Last weekend my mom and I went hiking in Ridgeway! Man, have I told you how much I love Colorado?

I got new running shoes! Life is good, friends.

Today I got this awesome package from Hunter! Ahhh... I love it! Hunter, you're the best. Plus... it had paint and chocolate and harry potter and tiger t-shirts. What else does a girl need??

Guys, as soon as you get a full time job plus a part time job plus violin students plus an office to clean... you realize that your only social activity is the ongoing facebook group chat with your friends from BYU. And that's ok. kinda. and a little sad, but whatever. 2 years and we'll all be back at BYU!

-Erica

p.s. LOOK AT SAM'S MISSION BLOG!!! READ IT. DO IT. AHHHH

oh, and I OFFICIALLY STARTED MY MISSION PAPERS YESTERDAY!! t-minus 105 days until I can turn them in (: and two days later I will be...

flying to london.

Zach's home!

Two years later and he's home! ...and I'm pretty dang happy about it.

-Erica