Remember When....

I found these pictures on Erin's facebook. These were pictures taken at Great Gram's funeral. I had never seen these so I posted for all to remember when....

Christmas 2010

Here are a few pictures of Christmas morning. Surprises, sticky buns and Christmas dinner followed. We loved our family that was with us, but missed those that were away.

Happy Birthday Kaden!

We hope you have a great birthday and birthday party! Eat some cake for us!

Good-bye Thanksgiving---Hello Christmas!

In the twinkling of an eye, actually just hours, our house transformed from Thanksgiving to Christmas. This year we celebrated Thanksgiving with Brooklyn, Shawn, their friend Amanda and Cait and Zac. We are grateful for our family and friends and for all of our blessings. We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

HaPpy biRthDay JaCkSOn!

We can't believe you're 10. You were just 9 days old when you came into our family, now look at you. Always teasing, just like in this picture. You certainly keep us young! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Jazzy!

Recycled!

SNEAK PEEK OF HALLOWEEN

Last night the kids had their Halloween Carnival at school, so we got a sneak peek of what they will be for the BIG event!

We're glad it's your Birthday, dear Shan!

This picture brings back such good memories. We hope you have a great birthday!

Homecoming 2010

Saturday was homecoming for Northridge High School. Mackenzie went with a cute guy named Dillon who her friend Rilee lined her up with. She had a fun time especially doubling with an old friend who she has known since she was 1. Doesn't she look beautiful!

I'm always learning new ways to learn....

Now that the kids have been back in school for nearly a month, I have come to admit that at times I wish I had the opportunity to return to the classroom to soak up some more knowledge just for myself. I know that won't happen for me but I am amazed at the things I learn from sitting in on some of my classes. Just today I learned that there are division rules (check it out on google for yourself under "division rules"). The number 91125 is divisible by 9 because if you add up each of the numbers 9+1+1+2+5= 18 which is divisible by 9. Check out some of the other neat rules and use it on your kids or spouses, they won't believe how smart you are. I had no idea there were rules like this, in my day, we just had to learn the hard way.

Happy Birthday Kohen!

Happy Birthday Grandson, hope you have a fun birthday party today. Eat lots of cake for us. We wish we could be there!

Peterson Family Reunion 2010

On Labor Day weekend we, that is John and I, decided to pull together a Sally Peterson Reunion. On Friday evening we contacted as many as we could, obviously the ones that lived the closest, to see if they could all meet at our home. Everyone seemed excited and decided it was a great idea. We had fun talking about old times, eating, going to the Tabernacle Choir broadcast and Hill Air Force Museum. Well as they say, "Families are like Fudge--mostly sweet with a few nuts. So judge for yourself....

First Day of School for our Senior.

We can't believe she's a senior this year. Off she went this morning, she wouldn't let me take her because she was too embarassed to have her mom drop her off, so she had a friend take her. Where has all the time gone...

Iowa Vacation

Just a few of our pictures we took on our family vacation to Iowa. We had a great time with Regan, Shan and the boys. It was non-stop. We visited Adam ondi ahman, Far West, watched a major league baseball game in Kansas City. We played in the water at Saylor's lake in Iowa, went to the corn fest and watched Zac run in a race. We visited the sites in Nauvoo and Carthage. Seventeen hours on the road, but it was all worth it!

First Day of School

Another year of school started yesterday for Jazzy and Jack. Two weeks of summer vacation is enough. They were already losing large masses of gray matter. Jackson is in 4th grade and has the same teacher that Jazzy had last year. Jazzy has a MAN teacher... we'll see how that goes.

Good Luck this year! Learn lots of things! We Love Ya!!

D&M

Sweet's Candy Factory Tour

We decided to take the free tour of Sweet's Candy Factory today. Jack thought we were on a school field trip. Guess what they were making today? You guessed it...Halloween candy. You know summer is going by really fast when you see all the stores putting their Fall things out and then see orange pumpkin taffys being made. We thought we were in " Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" as we noticed the pipes going across the ceiling that contained dark chocolate and milk chocolate syrup. At the end of the tour they let us sample as many candies as we wanted. Chocolate cinnamon bears and chocolate orange sticks are my favorites. Jack liked the sour gummy worms. YUM, YUM, YUM!

Wrapping up the month of May

Addy and the girls came and spent a great week with us, here's Mac as she wrestles the kids on the floor!

We celebrated Addy's birthday.


Take a look at that smile, she lost her tooth while here.

We like this look Ella!

Opening presents at Karter's birthday party,

Celebrating with family and friends,

Karter's Birthday (take a look at the Mad Hater's Hat cake!)

Signs of Spring in our yard.

And Happy Birthday to all our May birthdays: Regan, Addy, Dad, Karter and Caitlin!