Apple Picking

Last week the babe and I had the privilege of going apple picking with our moms group. It was a chilly morning but the sun came out and it ended up being a beautiful morning. The apple orchard was beautiful and the apples where ready for the picking.


I got the babe strapped on and was ready to pick. These baby carriers really come in handy. Lots of other moms had their babes in them to. It was good cause we got to do some serious picking!



There were lots of latter's all around the orchard so we could get at the nice juicy apples at the tops of the tree.

And they were useful for take some beautiful photos on

Once we let the babes out of the carriers there was no going back in. They did a great job of cleaning up the apples that were all over the ground.


I had a very successful day picking apples. To see and read about all the yummy treats I made check out Kates kitchen.

Adventures of deck building

The deck is still a work in progress. But it is coming along and looks beautiful. For many of you constant readers you know that my wonderful husband has taken on the project of building us a back deck. He has been working with my father getting the trees, milling it and now making it in to a master piece.

Here is our latest work on it.

First we had all the board brought to us from St. Stephen by my god parents.



Next my god father showed and helped hubby how to put the frame up



Well the frame was being constructed my father in law planed the decking boards. Which took a very long time to do.

Once the frame was up it was time to lay down the decking boards. I got to help do this part. I really liked using the power drill!!! Sorry there are no pictures of that which I know for my dad makes it hard to believe that I really was out there helping.


Here is the decking done on the bottom part of the deck

Once the decking was laid on the bottom half of the deck hubby and I did this chalk line thing and he used the skill saw to cut the boards.


Even though the deck is not quite finished yet it is still beautiful. I can't wait to spend time out there next summer. Hubby has done a wonderful job of learning how to do this kind of project. I am blessed to be married to such a handy man in the making!!!

We will be posting the finishing product later on;we are a couple boards short!!

The Peterson Camping Trip!

Every Labor day weekend my husbands family packs up and heads out camping for the weekend. When we were engaged I joined the family and went with them, staying with his cousins. Let me tell you the first experience was not joyful at all. It was so cold!!! But I was determined not to give up. So I went again after the 1st year of being married. This time we decided to head to New River beach (instead of Fundy Park). This time I tried my hardest to be a trooper but did end up waking up in the middle of the night crying because I was so cold! However I still didn't let it stop me. This year I was determined to stay warm and have fun!! Yes we were only going for 3 nights and 3 days...but I needed to be warm!

Once I convinced hubby that me packing all these warm clothes would allow him to have a more enjoyable camping experience we were able to load the car and get on our way!

Yes...that's the babe in the back. He wasn't sure what to think of his surrounds but he did great on the drive.

The first night I wanted to make sure that the babe was warm when we was sleeping so we bundled him up. He is such a great little camper.

New River is such a great place to camp. The sites are large, its right on the ocean and there is a nice hiking trail close by. Also all around our camp sites where blueberry bushes. So each morning we sent the kids out to pick some blueberries for breakfast. I think they eat more then they brought back but it kept them busy well they waited for breakfast.

On Saturday we all packed up and headed off for the hiking trail. What beautiful scenery, we even had time to stop and play on the rocks.

For meal times we were always a crowd as many of our friends and other family members stopped by for visits.


And of course what would an annual camping trip be without Dutch Blitz at night!!!

Our trip to Quebec

So we just got back from our two week Kings Kids trip to Quebec City!! Wow....it a blast! If you want to check out all the awesome things that God did for us while we were there you can visit here.

We did want to share some photos with you from our trip. I would write a long detailed description of what happened but as we have been hearing from many of you who followed the Kings Kids blog you all only looked at the pictures anyways so I will save my precious mommy moments and just give you want you all want.

Micah, Eben and I on our first outing. We toured old Quebec City but before we got there we stop at Parliament; that is where this picture was taken.


These are our two new friends Simon and his wife Alex. Simon works at the cafe where we worked. On our day off they took us along with Marie-Helene and Jamie across the fairy to enjoy "World's Best Ice Cream". It is a soft serve cone (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, orange or maple) dipped in milk or dark Belgium chocolate....wow buddy it was so yummy!!!

Here I am working at the Cafe. Each team member had their turn working in there either cutting up veggies, preparing desserts or doing the dishes!

Here is the whole gang. This photo was taken right before we did our presentation. It was in front of a very large and beautiful Catholic Church.

Here is our pirate family Arrr.....The love feast theme for our trip was pirates so we all enjoyed the evening every much...Eben didn't like his eye patch too much though.

On the way home we stopped in Perth-Andover at Carl's Dairy bar. Micah's mothers family is from there so he told the lady working his family history as we waited for our cheeseburgers and onion rings, which were the best onion rings and burger I have ever eaten!!!

Check out what we are up to

Hey readers!! If you want to check out what we are up to visit our Kings Kids blog. Its a day to day up date on what we have been up to in Quebec City. We are having lots of fun here and seeing God do some AWESOME things.

A deck in the making

I can't believe we are already in the third week of July. It just seems to be flying by so fast. We have been very busy this month. We are getting ready to build a deck in our back yard so we have been making many trips to St. Stephen to prepare the wood for it...or should I say Micah and my dad have been preparing the wood for it. Mom and I usually take advantage of these days by heading to town to do some shopping!



After waking up from a nap Eben got to get in on some of the "guys work".



It does get pretty hot working in the woods and with the saw mill so we did get some swimming in. Eben is not fond of cold water as I think we have spoiled him with hot showers since he was 2 weeks old. So it took some getting use to before he started in enjoy it.

We never stop!!

The weeks have been flying by... It hard to believe that its the July 1st already! So here is what we have been up to.

The last weekend in May was the Pregnancy Resource Centers annual walk for life. This year they had 3 tiny walkers; Eben and his two friends Noah and Peter. I think that all three of them fell asleep before we even started the walk!



SURPRISE!!!

That's right my dear husband and friends did it...They pulled off a surprise birthday party to welcome me into the quarter century club.

I thought that after church we were just going over to our friends house (where we go most Sundays after church) for a BBQ. I was shocked when I walked around the corner in their house to find lots of friends and family members jammed in there!

We enjoyed a yummy BBQ, cake, fellowship and of course some serious games of Dutch Blitz! And if you think that is an Awesome day it was topped off with a visit from my BEST friend.

The band she sings with, Life Support, was in town that night playing at our church. So she had time to stop by the party and then that night we took Eben to see them.



We had our first LOVE MONCTON the first week of June that our church took part in. After a fun day of cleaning up the streets we enjoyed a fun BBQ in the park with lots of music. Here is Eben drumming along with the African Children s Choir.


For only being 1/2 a year old Eben sure has done a lot. Here he is enjoying the sunshine at one of his little friends birthday party.

Ok so maybe him and Noah weren't that interested in the party! hehe..

Micah had some work to do with my Dad so it was off to St. Stephen we went. While we were down there we celebrated both mine and Mom's birthdays with a family BBQ. Here is Eben and I with my first Cousin and her children.


Just last weekend Eben go to his first wedding! He looked so cute in his shirt, tie and dress hat.

I think that he was getting tired of us taking lots of pictures of him by this point!

So we haven't stopped yet and the rest of the summer has lots of fun in the plans. Keep checking us out to see what crazy adventures we will have in the up coming month!!

The Results Are In....

And it's a PASS!! I couldn't be any prouder of my little study bug : )

This is very exciting folks!! Jump around the room exciting!! It is the culmination of:

4 years of university
+ Getting a 'tough to get' internship at Moncton hospital
+ 1 year of tough interning and studying (plus taking care of a husband and being pregnant : )
+ 4 months of studying (plus taking care of a husband and a baby : )
+ 1 really hard test
+ 1 month of worrying
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1 Very Happy Registered Dietitian (calling her mom to tell her the good news : )


Katie is not sure yet what the next steps are, but you can bet that she will be using her new certification to help a lot of people out. I am excited to see what her and the Lord will team up to do in the next few months and years.

We would just like to take this opportunity to thank the Lord for orchestrating everything so perfectly and giving Katie the strength to do this. Next Katie's parents for walking with us through each step and lastly to everyone who prayed for us or babysat Eben so Katie could study. I know that you are all celebrating with us.

If you want to come jump around the living room with us, you are more than welcome! We'll be jumping for a week or so, so come on over whenever you can : ) God Bless all!

May Adventures with the Peterson

So you all are probably wondering..."Where have these Peterson's been and why aren't they blogging". Either that or you have given up checking the site every day because you are disappointed in our up keeping of our crazy adventures. Well please let me explain what we have been up to these days.


Since January I had been preparing to write my Dietitian exam. I put in a lot of long hours of studying so the week before the exam my mom came for a visit to help out with the house work, the baby and the meal prep to give me some extra study time. During her time her she even treated us to some study treats. The waffle bowl sundaes from DQ are just as yummy as they look.

After my exam its was off for our much deserved family vacation to Minnesota. The reason for going to Minn was to visit Micah's family there. His grandparents, great gramma, uncle, aunt and cousins live there. This was an exciting vacation for me because I had never met this side of the family before (except the grandparents).


Visiting Micah's great gramma Esther was so much fun. She is a wonderful women of God who turned 104 a couple months ago. We had a wonderful time visiting with her and hearing her tell us some unforgettable stories from her childhood. We got to bring along to her some greetings from family members in the Maritimes; she really loved seeing everyone on the video camera.



This incredible bunch of peeps is Micah's uncle, aunt and cousins. We had a blast hanging out with them. We spent pretty much every day seeing this fine group of individuals. We had a blast eating lots of yummy suppers together, laughing, and playing dutch blitz together. We ended up going on the right weekend because we got to see Kirstin and her boyfriend Gary going to the prom.

Also Micah's cousin Brandon randomly showed up from Florida to take his girlfriend to prom as well. These Peterson men are all romantics; I'm tellin ya!!

One of our big adventures well in Minn was to hit the MALL OF AMERICA!! Now thats what I'm talkin about. This place was huge. The parking garage was about 3-4 times the size of our malls stacked on top of one another. Once we got parked and I got my self composed Micah strapped Eben on his back, as I am sure he was uncertain as to what would happen once I was unleashed from the vehicle.

This place was so awesome. There were so many stores to shop in and adventures to be had at different amusement parks. We had fun exploring around before stopping at Caribou Coffee for a quick refuel...Not that I needed it!



After our refuel it was off to the amusement park. I knew as soon as I walked in which roller coasters I wanted to go on and in no time Micah and I were strapped in, Papa was in place to video tape us and GG was watching the babe for us. Maybe we will post the video once I learn how to do that with my new video camera.

Micah also had a time to show Eben Lego land... which he remember from a previous visit.

As you can tell from the picture Eben was drooling with excitement (see his soaked shirt).

We had so many crazy adventures on the plane rides, in the airports and with the family that this post would just be too long. So maybe we will post a little movie (once we get it together) to give you the summary of how AWESOME our trip was!

Bill C-484

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How To Build a Ski Hill in Your Backyard

Hey everybody, Micah here. This is my front yard for 20 years in French Village, New Brunswick. As you can see, my niece and nephew are having lots of fun sliding down this great hill. I used to too with my brothers. We built jumps and rocked our GT's pretty much every day in the winter.


Moncton is a little flat (thanks for mowing the yard Nance, looks great!). This is a problem, so we decided to come up with a strategic plan to pretty much build Poley Mountain in our backyard!!

Step 1 - Have a crazy winter

Step 2 - Get someone to plow about 50 snowfalls into the back of your driveway

Step 3 - Hire a tractor to shoot the giant mound of snow over your fence into the backyard


Step 4 - Enjoy!



Drawback - Giant brown thing in the Spring : S

I think the tractor annihilated a kids shovel too : S It blew up and it scattered about our yard...

So there you have it. Pretty neat eh? Best of luck building your own Ski Hill in your backyard!