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!!!

New Swing Set

We just celebrated Eben's 2 1/2 birthday! I know it sounds weird but when you are born on Christmas morning we figured (only after having a house WAY to full of presents on Christmas morning) that we would celebrate 1/2 birthdays for Eben. We started the weekend off with a big birthday celebration for the little guy on Friday; which was actually his 1/2 birthday. * Pictures of the party will be coming soon!

So Nana and Grampy came up to spend their first days of vacation with us and putting together a beautiful swing set for Eben.

Here are the guys making sure all the pieces were there.




Starting the project


Its getting close
Just putting together the final touches ( not too many hours later!)

All in place and ready for Eben to take his first swing on it.


Him and Daddy up at the crack of dawn trying it out before the rain came.


Also while mom and dad were here Eben's play house got a second coat of paint and looks great thanks to Nana.

Wedding Day

So we just got back from a beautiful wedding! Its so wonderful that two people could have their first kiss after a pastor says you may NOW kiss your bride!

Since the bride is the family life pastor at our church it was a very kid friendly wedding. In between the ceromony and the garden party there was crafts for the kids, a bouncing castle, pop corn machine, cotton candy machine, and hot dogs.

Here are some pictures we took during our wait;

The family


Our church is having a baby boom and its so wonderful to be pregnant with some really great friends.

We are in order of due dates: Elisabeth July 7th, Me Aug 29th , Breanne Sept 4th and Carla November 18th.

And yes your NOT seeing doubles Breanne and I have the same dress on!

The very best Mothers Day!!

What an awesome mothers day I had! I woke up to the smell of cheddar, thyme and tomato omelets cooking and my two boys making me a beautiful mothers day card.

After a powerful message at church we came come and I enjoyed my afternoon reading and resting on the couch enjoy a delicious decaf cup of vanilla coffee. While my boys where busy watching YouTube videos (found here) and cooking me up some of these delicious ribs!!



After my afternoon of resting these delicious babies where finally done!! Micah did such a great job of making BBQ potatoes, carrots and we even had salad!
Eben wanted to show his plate off too. He wasn't as fond of the ribs as we were. They really were the best ribs we have ever eaten!

Hockey boy

After the Olympics, Eben now has a passion for speed skating and hockey ball which he calls Sochi ball! We have been enjoy the beautiful weather outside every day playing.

Winter Fun

With a fresh new snow fall this weekend Eben and daddy enjoyed some fun time out side making and throwing snow balls. As you can tell I was the target for both of them! heheh


After our fun time outside we enjoyed watching the Olympics inside before we played a great game of Rook. We are teaching Eben how to play early! heheh

Family pictures

Just wanted to share some of our family pictures that were taken at Thanksgiving!


The Peterson Family. Four generations...Thank you Lord for making me a part of such a wonderful family heritage!

The Peterson 3
Great-grand parents with the kids


Grand parents with the kids


Me with my beautiful sisters in law!!!

These photos were taken by a wonderful women check out her website Mason Photography!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the fall colors and the delicious feast we always enjoy. This year we celebrated with lots of family and friends. We are so blessed to have such a big family. In total we were 34 individuals and 4 generations....Thank you Lord for such a heritage we have!

Micah's aunt has a gift of decorating. Her family always makes the building look so beautiful. We ate on fall colored table clothes dressed with leaves, fanned napkins and gourd candles.


There was also this beautiful display of hay, pumpkins and giant mums. These are our two nephews taking a funny face picture.

Me and my sister in law Johanie.

Here is our thanksgiving buffet line. There is always so much food on the table. We had potatoes, squash, dressing, fiddle heads, carrots, salads, sweet potatoes, ham, turkey and of course GRAVY!!!!!



This year on the table these little cinnamon buns got promoted from the dessert table to the buffet table!!! I don't know how that happened with a dietitian in the family!! hehehe

After the feast came the desserts which I will have posted over at the kitchen blog. There are always so many to choose from. There was apple pie, blue berry pie, raspberry pie, squash pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake, pumpkin mousse, and ice cream sandwich dessert.


After our feast we had a lovely time of worship and a time of sharing about what we are thankful for!

The next day after church we did a nice walk outside. It was a little cold but it felt good to be able to get outside after all the rain we had.

This is a picture of Eben with his papa, great papa and GG (great grandmother)Micah teaching his mom to be hip by walking with one ear phone in!!


Our niece Miah jumping in the leaves. This was right after she fell in them!!!