Tuesday, December 6, 2011

St Nick 2011

Parker woke up at 4AM, 2 days in a row now.  Someone was pretty excited for St. Nick to come to the house.  Last night Parker finished drawing what he wanted this year for Christmas.  The idea was to give St. Nick a list to take back to Santa just in case Santa didn't know already.  There were multiple pages of made up toys and games on at least 5 sheets of paper.  He managed to stuff it all into one envelope, wrote to St. Nick, from Parker, Crosby, Mom, Dad and set it out by the front door.  At 4AM he woke up and came to get us.  Luckily we managed to keep him busy ready books in his room until 5:30, forced him to shower, eat breakfast and then check out what St. Nick brought.  What nice parents we are.  2011 was a success, now we start the count down to Christmas.

Reading since 4AM

Dinosaurs found all over the world

Both boys got shovels...yeah!

Crosby was a little unsure at first

St. Nick thought it would be a
good idea to give this one now,
they are 12-0.

Bath toys for the little one.

Miguel Camino is now added to the collection

This is how you do it Parker.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Fall Fun

The Peterson's made a trip to GB today just to hang out for the afternoon.  What a great day!  It has been almost 16 months since we have spent some time together...the only reason we know it is b/c the mom's were pretty prego the last time (see picture 1).  First, we had to have some lunch so Pen & Mo made a trip to Qdoba, love the cheese queso.  The kids played down stairs with just about every toy possible.  The coolest part of the day was when Crosby went downstairs and then Olivia followed (her first time going down steps by herself).  After the kids warmed up to each other we spent some time up at the park.  Christian was a daredevil, climbing and jumping off the rocks.  Parker was making tracks in the wood chips, Crosby & Mark played on the baby slide and Olivia was running around in the grass.  After that, the young ones took short naps and the boys played downstairs with the moms.  We were so thankful we could spend some time with our good friends and will make sure the next time is before the end of the year!


June 5th 2010.
Pregos chillin' in Madison.


Love birds holding hands.
Olivia and Crosby.

Mo and Parker on the way to the park.

Christian on top of the rock.

And he jumped, it was awesome.

Crosby chasing Olivia down the slide.

All smiles from Crosby

Christian pushing Mo in circles

Dad moved Crosby out
of the way, just in time

1x1.  Someday this could be a good game!

The Petersons

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween Fun

Halloween 2011 in the New Neighborhood.
Crosby was a monster with oversized, clumsy feet and Parker was a ninja with a golden sword (it's all about the accessories this year!)  The streets were packed with many families going from house-to-house.  The Berggren Family came over to run around with us while Grandma Jeanne handed out candy for us.  Even Grandpa Dennis and Grandma Dawn stopped by to join in the fun (and help get the boys ready and out the door).  THANK YOU GRANDPARENTS!!!!


Madisyn (the Turtle) and Parker ran faster than we've ever seen them move from house to house, collecting more candy and treats than they could carry.  Parker's legs got tired after a couple of blocks but Madisyn kept going.  It was fun to watch the kids interact with all of their new buddies from school and the park that they recognized somehow even though all were in costumes from head-to-toe.

A couple weekends before Halloween we were able to join the Berggrens and Stakiaks for a fun day at the Train Museum.  There was pumpkin bowling, dancing, arts & crafts and even cake (Jenny was thrilled!)








Here Parker is showing Crosby how to Pumpkin Bowl.


The boys catching a ride on the train going nowhere


 The Staniaks
(Jenny, Blake on her lap, Chase, and Reese...
Ryan was MIA - not feeling well)

 The Berggren's (Brian, Madisyn, Amie +1) 


Parker and Crosby on a HUGE train


Cake time... Look at Jenny's smile ;o)


Super Fun adding Halloween bling to masks and bags.


Parker's ready to go trick-or-treating!


All Aboard!  Ready to go pick out our pumpkins!
Can we fit another kid in there?


These two opted for a better view in a double-decker train 


Our little Boo picking out the perfect pumpkin





Dave and Parker climbed all the
way to the top of the look out!






Mama found her little pumpkin...
Crosby found THE ONE
he had been searching for and
 he wasn't letting go of it.


Time to get this pumpkin started!


I have an idea!  Let's carve a skull face on this one.


Mom got to do the dirty work this year.

The boys opened the second pumpkin up
(from the bottom)

The face says it all!

Brotherly love near the freshly carved pumpkins.


Not wanting to sit for very long....
too much to look at.
 

Mom busted out her slipper boots
and guess who had to try them on.

This is after I took the slippers off Crosby twice,
he wanted them back on ;o)

Look at that sweet little baby!


That got a brilliant idea...

To climb onto his chair to see if
there was any food up there.


An action shot of the boys just before trick-or-treating.


Crosby trying to figure out why people
kept coming up to our house and
 leaving right away.

Ready to rock n' roll.  Let's do this!


The boys next to their pumpkins.


Dad enjoying the moment with
the cutest little monster ever.

Mark (or should I say Steve Jobs?)
joined the fun again this year...
I don't think he has missed a Halloween yet!

Love these kiddos!

Crosby looked cold so we added dad's gloves


Who gave this one the ninja sword?