Erik 1979-2009

To the memory of our dear friend Erik: someone who truly knew how to love and live, he believed in the goodness of people and the world and infected everyone he met with it. You will be greatly missed and always alive in our life. Thank you for the memories and adventures.



Erik always had some crazy skills. here he is showing us how to build a fire out of a stick and a piece of grass.

Hunting the buffalo in the wild wild west on a road trip our freshman year of college.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

-Kahlil Gibran, on death from The Prophet

Outdoor Sculpture "The Awakening" at the National Harbor.

Hot sweaty girls. This was after our long run to catch the ferry boat.
One of the many highlights of our trip to visit the grandparents in DC. The slip and slide! It had a sharks mouth that you slid through!
This is at Grandma Sanfords in Viola, WI. pickin' and grinnin' on the front porch with Gregg's cousin Cody.
Just wanted to share some pictures, I will write more later when 2 girls are not clinging onto me begging me to do their "letters" on the computer. Anyone with kids: starfall.com. My kids love it. I do too.