Bowling for Birthdays....

March 4th was Amber's 27th Birthday. March 7th was Sienna's 2nd Birthday. We celebrated by inviting both sides of the family to Boondock's for Bowling! It's a new family fun center with gigantic screens. We watched NCAA basketball and music videos while we bowled. All of the kids (and adults) had a sensory overload, but it was a good time for everyone...

Ya gotta love ramps and bumpers for kids...

The month of February...

I love this picture! These are Grandma and Grandpa Peterson's grandkids all spending the day together in Brigham City. From left to right: Jane (Abby and Vance's little girl), David (Jess and Rod's boy), Rusty (Zach and Amber's boy), Sienna (Zach and Amber's girl), and Zach (Jess and Rod's 2nd little boy, love that smile!)



We had a fun time celebrating St. Valentine's Day with Krispy Kreme Donuts on Saturday and Church on Sunday...

We have been enjoying taking walks around the neighborhood in Kaysville. Sienna and Rusty are fascinated by horses. Around the corner from Grandma's house, lives a horse named Silverado whom Rusty and Sienna have made friends with....

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...

Christmas in NYC 2009

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...

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.