Peterson Family

Friday, March 26, 2010

Moving...Again!

So we finally sold our home in South Ogden, UT. We purchased it new in April of 2007. It was a blessing to finally get it sold, but we will sure miss it. We had some good memories there.

I'll miss little things like Sienna's room being hand-painted by Amber.

Sienna was a big help on moving day, ordering us around...

It seems like we should be U-Haul's most valued customers these last 18 months.

On the bright side, we are now living with Mom and Dad Mehr, which allows us to stoke the competitive fires of our gameboard nights more often!!! This is a familiar sight at the Mehr household...

Monday, January 11, 2010

So in November of 2009, I started my new job with the Church Pension Group, a company to provide retirement benefits specifically to the Episcopal Church Employees. It has been a huge blessing for our family and I am really enjoying it. One of the fun perks of the job, is to be able to travel out to NYC where the company is headquartered. I've been out a few times for training, but the last trip out was the funnest because Amber got to come with me for the company's annual Christmas party. It was a pretty well-to-do event at a fine reception hall in downtown Manhattan. Our kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson and at Aunt Jess and Uncle Rod's place. So Amber and I had a week-long date together, one week before Christmas, in NYC. It was like a second honeymoon. We had a great time! Here are just a few highlights...

Amber and I had our caricature picture drawn at the Christmas party. I think it's a pretty good likeness of both of us...

We went to FAO Schwartz toy store in Central Park and saw some great things. Check out this Chewbacca made from LEGO's. We also saw a Batman. These were on sale for about $27k.

We saw the BIG piano from the movie and watched employees and kids perform on it....

Amber and I got tickets to see David Letterman, it was the 12/18/09 show if you want to go to cbs.com and check it out. We got to see Spiderman (Tobey Maguire) and Alicia Keys sing this amazing song about NYC. It was a really cool experience!

Here is the big tree at the Rockefellar Center. We watched people ice-skate for a little bit. It was really fun to see NYC decked out for Christmas. I hope we get to go again next year...

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Happy 4th Birthday Rusty!!!

Well Rusty, you're 4 years old now. Your family loves you very much. You have a great time with your cousins, friends, and teachers. Everyone thinks that you're hilarious. You are a very social little kid. You have the ability to make friends easily. You are really into superheroes right now. You love Veggie Tales, Star Wars, Transformers, and anyone wearing a mask and a cape. You are very good at puzzles. You often do them and you are getting to the point where you don't need our help on puzzles with 25 pieces, up to 100 pieces. Sienna loves to play with you and will often follow you around like a shadow and repeat words that you say. You can drive mommy and daddy nuts sometimes but we are so proud of the little boy that you are growing up to be.

If you know Rusty, you'll know that he is very particular on what he will eat. He doesn't even like candy or very many things considered to be junk food. The two main sugary things that he does enjoy are doughnuts and churros. Well we adapted a traditional birthday cake to make it your own. Your Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles from both sides came over on your birthday. We enjoyed some deli sandwiches and your birthday cake of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Everyone had a great time and they really think the world of you.

We love you pal.

Halloween 2009!

We had a good time this year! We took a really nice drive to a pumpkin patch in Paradise, UT in Cache Valley to pick out our pumpkins. We had fun carving different designs on the Monday before Halloween. Amber, Rusty, and Sienna enjoyed a Halloween party at their school and we all had fun trick-or-treating.

Family Portraits...

So we have super nice guy for a neighbor. His name is Mark, he's a retired Delta Airlines Pilot and he has a passion for his hobby which is photography. Unexpectedly, he asked if he could shoot pictures of our family for "practice," and Amber and I were only all to willing to oblige him. I really liked how these pictures turned out. So if you haven't seen our family for a little while, we hope you enjoy some of these "updated" pictures of our little family.

Amber seems to get more and more beautiful the longer we are married, both on the inside and on the outside. I really lucked out!

Rusty and Sienna have their little sibling spats like most children I would expect, but I still think that they really do like each other and we (as their parents) really appreciate that they like to be around each other. (So far....)

I love this picture of my girls.

Rusty looks so grown up in this picture. It kills me.

Thank you Mark (our neighbor) for providing these memories for our family! We so appreciate it.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Trip to Idaho Falls...

July 2009:

We always enjoy a trip to Idaho Falls to see Uncle Rod, Aunt Jess, Cousin Dave and Cousin Zach.

Rod: (Referring to Dave and Rusty) "Nitro and Glycerine"

Sienna and Zach on a kiddie ride. I love Zach's expression in this picture.

Uncle Rod, Aunt Jess, Dave and Zach in front of the Idaho Falls Temple.

Zach and Amber in front of the Idaho Falls Temple.

These guys spent a lot of time in this little pool. We enjoyed playing in the water in David's backyard. He had a Spider-Man slip-n-slide which only Daddy enjoyed. We also played games, watched movies, and saw the Interstellar Space Station and U.S. Shuttle Endeavor fly over the earth for about 5 minutes, watching it like a big star passing overhead.

Fireworks...

July 2009:

We stayed for the Kaysville Fireworks Show later that night. The kids were excited to be outside when it was so dark and late. I think they sensed something cool was going to happen but just couldn't quite put their finger on it until the fireworks began. All in all, it was a fun day.