New Kitchen Blind

I am so excited about my new kitchen blind that Micah and his brother Josh put up last night that I just have to show you!!

Before was a long blue cloth blind; which wasn't working for us being so close to the kitchen table.  Can you imagine how dirty it was getting with 2 little ones covered in spaghetti sauce touching it.    While now we have a beautiful white blind which will match the kitchen prefect when we re paint in the spring! I am just so happy with how nice it looks.

Winter fun

This past week the Peterson house came down with the awful cold so we have been finding ways to stay busy inside.  Lady J and Eben are having so much fun together.  They are at the age where they are interacting and playing well together. 

We started having family game night with the kids.  Connect 4 was the one that Eben picked out for this week.  Jaelyn really loved it as well. 

I think they just like to put all the pieces in.

As for mommy and daddy we are doing great.  Here is a picture of me at 22 weeks along.  The pregnancy is going well and I am feeling great.  I do wish I had some more energy to get all bundled up and take the kids outside to play in the snow

This coming week the kids and I are working on lots of LOVE day treats to bless our friends, family and neighbours.  If you want to check them out head on over to the kitchen blog. 

Hanging pictures

We are doing great settling into our new home and I am so happy to announce that just this week we put pictures on the wall.  Not all of my pictures cause I have a bit of an obsession and we have a LOT.  But come on who wouldn't want pictures of their cute kids, handsome hubby and great looking friends around their house.  I guess its just one of my things. 

Here is our bed room with some pictures up.  For some reason (lighting of course) the top picture looks more bright but the bottom picture is a more accurate picture for the color. 

And our living room.  Well one corner of it. 

 And here is the other corner.  We just got that end table this week so I put our shutterfly book on it along with the lamp and few other things.

Step by Step we are making this house more and more like the home we want.  So there will be lots of little up dates as we add things and put things on the walls.

January Fun

The cold weather snap finally showed up with - 20!!!  We think that is pretty cold until some friends who live out west tell us its -41 out where they are.  We are thinking about you guys during this cold weather.  For us here -20 is cold enough to stay inside and have fun if we don't have to go any where's.  So we have been enjoying lots of fun activities together. 

                                  

Sweet Jaelyn loves to color.  So every morning while I do preschool activities with Eben, Jaelyn will sit in her high chair and color away.  She is actually pretty good.  I find giving her these special markers that only show up on this special paper makes for great clean up.  

Eben will sit and do some school work but then he is so creative he usually is off using his imagination creating fun stories.  One thing he LOVES to do is play dress up in daddy's snow stuff. 

Eben and mommy got to go on a special date this week.  Eben will go to kindergarten in the fall so he went this week for his assessment.  He did such a great job that mommy took him out for a doughnut and hot cocco.

He picked the one with the most sprinkles on it and sat there eating it and drinking up his coco like he was a little old man! hehehe.  When he was done the doughnut he looked at me and said  "Mama lets stay here and talk while we finish our drinks."   I am really enjoying these special moments with him as he is growing up and becoming a little boy. 

Now today as I blog the snow is falling outside and its really beautiful!  We haven't made it out there yet but maybe after nap time we will suite up and shovel the drive way.  But this morning after all our chores were done the kids had a fun time playing with play-doh.

This picture of Jaelyn was right before she popped the whole ball of play-doh in her mouth! heheh Maybe we will stick to homemade play-doh for her. 

After the eating of the Play-Doh Jaelyn decided she wanted to help me make lunch and got to work playing the pot cupboard. 

Happy 30th

Happy 2012 Readers!!  We are excited to start our new year off with Micah's 30th birthday.  Here is one of the gifts the kids and I got for Daddy!  

Micah's birthday fell on a Saturday this year so we were able to invite friends and family over to our new home to celebrate his birthday with us.  There are only 2 things Micah LOVES for his birthday.  Mexican pile up and Oreo dessert.  So that is what we enjoyed.  

I really love LOTS of things about our new place and one is the kitchen island.  I love how we could put everything out for a buffet.  So some readers may be thinking what is Mexican Pile Up.  Well let me explain.  Its kind of like making your own Mexican Salad.  There are many different things you can put onto your plate.  You don't want to put too much of one thing on so that you can fit everything onto your plate.  But even if you take just a little bit you still end up with a PILE on your plate. 

So you start out with some rice, chips, beef, beans, lettuce, veggies (tomatoes, peppers of all colors, avocados, onions...really whatever you like), then the toppings, cheese, salsa, sour cream, ketchup (only for Micah) and you cover it all in the special cheese sauce! 

It was a good thing I bought BIG sturdy plates to carry it all on. 

Micah's birthday falls on his grand parents wedding anniversary so it was an honor to have them with us this evening as they were celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary!  

Nana was telling the story of how they had gone out for breakfast that morning and when she told the waitress that they were celebrating 60 years of being married she was shocked and asked how did you do it.  She looked her in the face and with honor said he is an amazing man!!!    

After pile up it was time for dessert.  Oreo dessert that is.  This is another traditional recipe that Micah enjoys at this special time of year.  I think that Eben is getting a taste for it as well. 

After all the food it was time for gifts.  Micah's mom has been making felted wool mittens and Micah got a new pair for his birthday.  He also received some money to go towards the purchase of an iPad he has been saving up for.  Since we have the rule if we don't have cash for it we don't buy it he still will have to wait a little bit longer until he gets his mitts on one! 

 It was a great night and we feel so blessed to be back "home" with lots of friends and family.  Although we still do miss our Moncton crew and will never forget Micah's surprise 25th birthday we are feeling peace with God's calling us back.

Here are some shots from the night.

Me with MH and baby Sophie

 Micah, Davey and Josh

 Nephew Jonah and baby Sophie

Our New Home

Welcome to our new house.  We just moved in 1 week ago so things are still not in the order we would like but for all of you wanting to see the new place this post is for you.  I am sure as we hang pictures, paint and get things all put away we will be posting more pictures. 

Here is a picture of our walk way and one half of our front yard.

Onto our deck and you can see the other half of the yard with the swing set and garage. 

Walking into our front door.  This lovely wreath was left here for us.  Such a nice gift from the previous owners.

So here is our awesome kitchen you walk into.   We will be putting pictures up over the table and also giving it a fresh color of paint in the Spring. 

                                     

                                     

Now if you walk down the hall way here we have a food pantry (1st door), our washer and dryer is next and then you walk into the master bed room which is a large room.  You can't tell how big it really is cause the other half of the room still has boxes that need to be gone through so you only get one side of the room.

And yes our new place has an ensuite bathroom!!!  We LOVE IT.  

Now back to the main entrance off the kitchen we have a big living room.  Sorry this is the only picture I have of the living room at the moment.  The kids have been having fun playing with the kitchen that Jaelyn got for Christmas.  And if you walk down this hall way there are two bed rooms (both were too messy to take pictures of) and the kids bathroom.

I will post pictures of the other two rooms once we get them a little more organized.  Hope you enjoyed your visit with us!  I am off to unpack more boxes. 

December with the Peterson's

 December was so busy but I will try my best to take you through our crazy month.  We started the month of with a date night just Micah and I.  It was his company Christmas party.  It was a nice meal and fun to be out before the craziness started.

Next we headed to Moncton to visit our friends and see them preform in The Nativity.  We decided to take Eben with us.  We took him out for a healthy supper of French fries at Wedneys where he told us "thanks for bringing me on this date daddy I'm having so much fun".  

He loves French fries and root beer!

 Back at the house (Nannie and Papa's house that is) the kids helped papa get the Christmas tree in, put on the lights and add some decorations to it.

The same day we got a very BIG package from Korea!!!  We were so excited to open it and find gifts from our friend Sera!!!  Here is Eben with his package.

What would December be without decorating Christmas cookies.  Here I caught all three of them licking the frosting.

Here are some of the delicious cookies we made for a Christmas potluck.  I didn't have any helpers with frosting these ones. 

Just last week we packed up our storage unit and moved into our new house in SJ.  We had lots of great help which made the move go so quickly.  We weren't in the house 2 days and Micah had the tree all set up and decorated.  Here are the kids helping daddy get our tree set up.

I didn't get a before picture so we will have to use the after Christmas photo.  But here is our tree all decorated in our new place.  If we are going to continue getting BIG trees I will need to get more ornaments.  

On Christmas eve Micah gave a gift to our family to open.  He had gone out and bought the Play mobile nativity set.  We used it to act out the story of Mary and Joseph with the kids.  We all really loved it.  It makes a beautiful decoration that the kids can play with it every Christmas. 

Christmas morning the kids woke up bright and early (8:00 am hehe).  So we started the morning with a delicious tea ring (its like cinnamon buns) and we read the birth of Jesus from Eben's bible before we dug into any Christmas gifts.  I love waking up and focusing on the reason and the real gift!!! 

 Here we are opening our presents from Sera!!  These pictures are just for you Sera.   We love you so much.

Here is Jaelyn's big present she got.  My dad did a great job putting it all together and my mother equipped it with pots, pans and lots of wooden food.  

Her and Eben have both been enjoying it and spending lots of time playing with it. 

That afternoon we enjoyed a delicious turkey supper complete with Christmas crackers (that is why we all have crowns on) and sparkling juice. 

Since I took all the pictures I thought I would take one of myself. hehe

Here are my awesome parents who spent Christmas with us.  Thanks Nana and Grampie clause for all the presents!