Painting

So here at the Peterson house hold we have been up to lots of house projects. When its warm outside (which hasn't been too often) we have been doing outside projects. And the rest of the time we have been working on painting and decorating the inside of the house.

First outside we spray painted our plastic patio furniture. I LOVE this color.

We (or Papa) I should say also spray painted my bike. I LOVE it so much. This treasure I found 2 summers ago during spring clean up. I forgot to take a before picture but it was rusting brown. Now it is beautiful blue and I love riding around on it!


It was nice having Nannie and Papa around to help us get these project done on one of the warm sunny days we had. Here is Nannie and Lady J hanging out on the deck.

Now come inside to see our new den and bed room.

Here is the start of the den/craft room/spare room/office.



Painting the furniture to go with the room.


Here is the office corner


The craft corner

before


After

We took the double bed out and put in a futon.


Now onto the bedroom

Just getting started



ClosetsWe went with 3 walls cinnamon cherry and one wall gray.


This mirror was attached to our dresser vertically in the old room. Now I sanded it down and painted it black and hubby attached it to the wall horizontal. I really love how big it makes the room look this way! You can see in the mirror a brown night stand which will be painted black once we get some nicer weather again.

Now over our bed we got a very nice gift of a head board painted by my friend Elisabeth. She made this out of two old windows that she found on the side of the road during spring clean up. I loved how it turned it out. Its titled Love Grows which is so cute.

Also our bed spread was a gift to us as well. This design really adds to the room.

And above our head board I used my Cricut and white vinyl to cut out our Monogram. I love love love how my two new rooms turned out.

Happy Easter

What a day to rejoice. The day the grave couldn't hold HIM!!! We feel so blessed to know Jesus and are so thankful for the sacrifice that He made for us. We started Easter morning off by running around the house saying "He isn't there"!!! Then as we got ready for church we sang and danced around the house. Usually we don't dress up for church but since Easter is such a special day for us we got all dressed up!

All dressed and ready to go

Jaelyn in her first Easter dress


Celebrating at church as a family

And here is a picture of me and one of my friends Bre. Her little girl Emma and Jaelyn are only 1 week apart. So happy first Easter girls.


Before nap time on Sunday Micah and Eben thought they would be super funny pretending to be the Easter bunny. Eben has NO idea who or what the Easter bunny is but he still thought it was really funny.

Nannies visit

Nannie came to town this week and it was so much fun. The first thing we did was try out Eben's new bike that he got!! He really loves his big boy bike and is really good at riding it; although it did take some getting use to for him.

The weather was very nice this week for getting to go outside and playing. Eben received a bag of hand me downs and in one of the bags was a black and gray hat that looks just like the one hubby wears all the time. Another piece of clothing to make Micah's mini me look even more like him! hehe

Nannie loves to take pictures so here is one of the kids just hanging out. Lady J is rockin her new jean jacket outfit...from Nannie of course.

Whats a visit with Nannie without some fun time at McDonalds play place. Eben had lots of fun playing in there with lots of other kids.

And Lady J was just happy to sit in the old school McDonalds chair and watch all the action. Nannie did try to give her a french fry but Mama noticed too fast and took it away.

Trip to Quebec

We had a wonderful vacation!!! It was full of great adventures, awesome memories, lots of laughs and lets not forget amazing food! We started our vacation by going dog sledding with my brother in law Ben. It was pretty much the funnest thing I have ever done.


Micah and Eben enjoyed a great ride together.


We got a lot of great video footage and I can't wait to see what kind of movie Micah comes up with. But for now here is a little movie trailer featuring some great clips of our adventure.

The next day we packed up the family and headed out to the sugar shack.



We don't have any movie put together of that yet but I can't wait to see what Micah comes up with for a movie. Last year when we were at the sugar shack we were closing down the shop by cleaning all the buckets this year they were still in the middle of production. We got to see the syrup being boiled down and canned. Then we enjoyed a delicious sugar shack meal before we headed out to collect the sap in the buckets.



When all the work was done we got a delicious treat of maple toffee.

While hanging out at Ben and Jo's the kids loved playing with their new kitten Bilbo



Not sure who Bilbo will miss more. Adventurous Eben or quite Jaelyn! hehehe

We spent our last night of vacation in Quebec city with good friends. It was our friend Sera's first visit to the city so we braved the snow and cold to take her to the old city to see the sites.



It was also the first time our friends Simon and Alex's little guy Theo got to meet Jaelyn.



Today we are trying to get back to our regular scheduled program!

like father like son

I don't know if I could love these two any more!! They are so cute together. Many times its mommies and daughters who always match but not in our house its always Eben and Daddy who wear the same style.


When Micah got a new look this year with his European soccer hair and skinny jeans you can just guess who was next in line to have his hair cut just like daddies. They look some some cute together.

Not only do they like to look alike but they love being together and playing together. One of their favorite things to do is play the drums. We have been asking God for 2 years now for a drum kit for Micah and God provided with this great kit for Micah. Now they have been having lessons together...
and of course jamming out together. I am so happy that they have a great relationship and we are watching Eben grow in His character and becoming a little man. However I wouldn't mind if the drum lesson wasn't at 7 AM in the morning!! hehehe...


Now that we have this drum kit Micah will be teaching drum lessons! Give us a call or drop us a comment if you would like to get some!

Our New Look

Hello readers and welcome to the new Peterson Adventure blog. Now there is no need to worry old time readers; we just got a makeover that we are LOVING!! Our sister in law Deja is a great web/blog designer and she has been helping us get a fresh new look on our blogs.

Some of you might be thinking to yourself. I love the new header and what great pictures they have down the side of the blog...but why on earth is the back ground a garden. Well here goes my explanation to that one. Besides the fact that when two people contribute to the blog its really hard to agree on what type of back ground to pick with such limited choice in the blog world. So after lots of picking and trying we decided on the garden for a couple of reasons.

1. We love having a garden in our back yard and some day we would both really love to have a hobby farm!!

2. We want to be a family who is producing spiritual fruit for God (I know this picture is a vegetable garden but you get the idea).
3. We are parents of 2 small children and right now we don't know how many more children God is going to bless us with so in some sense we are growing children for the Lord also.

Now that I have explained a little bit about the garden growing behind us lets move on!

So why a fresh new look you ask. Well everything needs a makeover every once in a while and for us as we have grown to a family of 4, been married 6 years and have had some great revelations with that we decided our new out look needed to be put to our blog to keep our family and friends up to date with what we are up to. So why Peterson adventure?? because thats what we know we are in for!

We love dancing around the with kids to the song The great adventure by Steven Curtis Chapman. The lyrics are so meaningful to our family right now and every time we listen to it we get really excited to see where God is going to take us, what adventures will we have?? What trails are we going to blaze?? And of course the promise that this is a life like no other...following our leader to the great unknown.

So join us on our adventure as a growing family seeking the Fathers heart on the Agape Road!!!

A walk in the Park

On Sunday afternoon we decided to head out to the park to enjoy the beautiful sunshine. We are loving that the weather is getting warmer and the MASSIVE amount of snow that we had (close to 11 ft) is almost all melted away.



Lady J has been getting use to this book as and loves running around in it with Daddy and Eben. Its also great that it becomes a stool she can just hang out in while the boys play on the play ground



Eben, Daddy and our friend Tyler had a great time playing at the play ground. They were pretending it was a rock ship (of course) heading for some wheres...I was lost in all the boy lingo.

I guess this was the tunnel of safety for the take off! heheh

Finally we got Lady J out of the pack back and into a swing for the first time. Eben had so much fun pushing her back and forth. He has been waiting all winter to be the BIG brother and push Jaelyn. You see we have a jolly jumper hanging from our ceiling in the living room and he Loves to push it around...of course this is not allowed cause its just not safe so we have been telling him for the past month that he can be the big brother and push her on the swings at the park. He has so much fun and so did she.

He also enjoyed a couple good under ducks from daddy before we headed for home!

March break

Last week was March break around here. Not that it really matters for our family cause our kids aren't in school but we had a lot of fun with people who were in school and had a little vacation. First my bestest friend Deanna showed up with gifts for everyone and got to see Jaelyn for the first time in months. It was great having her here for a little visit! Jaelyn has grown so much since the first time we all meet her in the delivery room back in September.

Next Nannie and Papa showed up with our friend Sera! Sera got to stay with us for week back in January so the kids were very happy to see her again. Eben loves Sera. One of the first things he said to her when she walked in the house was "aw Sera I love your dress!" It was just too cute.

We had lots of fun at the park playing in the morning and then that afternoon we took the kids bowling.


It was Eben's first time at the bowling ally and he really enjoyed it and did super well (as you can tell from the picture this ball is almost dead on the center pin). At the end of the game Papa had the highest score but Eben was up there with a 61!!

Jaelyn even got in on the action!
Right now Micah is working on a putting together a sliding video but once that is done maybe we will get a bowling video so you can see how much fun we had!

29th birthday

Earlier this month hubby turned 29!! To celebrate his birthday we had a family birthday party.

Micah arrived home to a dark house and 4 people ready to jump out and "surprise"him from behind a very colorful chalk board. That said Happy Bithday!! It was only later that we realized we had forgotten the R...heheh oh well.

With party hats and all we were ready to celebrate by enjoying an awesome Korean meal that our friend Sera spent the day preparing.


When supper was finished we sang happy birthday (while Micah played his harmonica). He even used it at the end of the song to blow out the candles, which Eben thought was pretty cool.

We had a good evening enjoying cake with our neighbors! We did work off the cake all evening as we played the Wii.



I think Jaelyn had fun at Daddy's birthday party!!!