Ryker's Birthday Day Museum Visit

Ryker is into being a dinosaur right now so Melissa decided we should go to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point on his birthday. Me, Matt, Andrew and his friend Daxten, joined Melissa and Ryker for the day. We went to the museum, a 3-D dinosaur movie, lunch at Paradise Cafe (yummy cookies!!) and checked out Cabela's while we were down that way. We had a lot of fun, but I came home exhausted!

Ryker's 4 Year Old Birthday Photo

At The Dinosaur Museum!

Matt at Cabelas's!

Ryker's Birthday Present! A wiggle car!

Summer Fun The Old Fashioned Way!

Andrew and his friends have been having night games two or three days a week! I love it when they play this way. It reminds me of when I was a child. We used to meet every night down at the corner light post. All of the neighbor kids from young to old used to get together and play "Hide and Seek", "Kick the Can", "Steal the Flag" and "Freeze Tag".

The one thing I notice with Andrew and his buddies is it is much harder to get everyone together. This takes them quite awhile because they have to call everyone and have them dropped off. I guess that's progress...definitely a downside! They also like to "Doorbell Ditch". I apologize to any of my neighbors this has effected!

Anyway, I try to encourage this kind of play instead of the kinds that takes money. Skating rink, water slides, movies, video games, laser tag..... I want to take them hiking and to float down the river on some innner tubes. Next week!

Jordan's Graduation!!

Well, summer is flying by so I thought I would update my blog a little bit! Jordan's graduation was at the Dee Events Center on June 5th, 2009 and 12:00. It was really nice (as far as graduations go). The grandparents came and we went to lunch afterwards!

Jordan's Graduation Suitcases from Grandpa and Grandma P!

Ryker, Melissa and Jordan after Graduation!

Jordan's Graduation Photos!

We took Jordan to Layton Park for a photo shoot! He wasn't a totally cooperative subject, but ended up with some pretty good pictures.

Ryker is going to graduate some day so he needed to be in the pictures!

Graduation is Friday! Three down - one to go! Go Superjillo!!!

Andrew's Birthday - My Baby is 11 Years Old!

We had a basketball banquet at Ligori's on Andrew's birthday. The boys had a great year and we decided to have a dinner to end the season.

Trophies for winning the league!

After the banquet, Andrew had some of the guys over to play games and have cake and ice cream. They wanted to play night games and thought they would call some girls over to play with them. This took quite awhile (because they weren't very brave) and it was very entertaining for Melissa, Brett and I (hopefully they won't read this - they were very chicken on the phone after all their big talking). They finally (after much talking, teasing and laughing) managed to make a few calls and got three of their friends to come over. I guess they did a bit of door bell ditching (sorry everyone!).

The birthday still wasn't over! Andrew wanted a friend birthday party this year so we had planned it for the next weekend! This party was billed (by Andrew) as the "air soft gun war of the year". Matt and I took the boys down to a park and let them have at it. We had a fire and roasted hot dogs and had s'mores.

Mother's Day!

Tracy, my mom, me and Cheryl on Mother's Day

We had a barbeque and swimming party for Mother's day. We took thousands of pictures, but didn't get too many really cute ones! Thanks mom for always being there for us, for teaching us things, for caring about our kids, for advice, for entertainment and taking care of dad! We love you!

The party kind of took a turn into the normal (or abnormal - depends on how you look at it) Peterson party with a game of faceball. In case you have never played this game (you probably haven't YET because we just made it up). It is when you have to keep the ball on the table by blowing really hard. If it goes off your side YOU LOSE!

You are supposed to keep your chin on the table

Melissa likes to think she is more normal than me (but is she really??)

5th Grade is Full of Projects!

Andrew and Jrue in front of Andrew's Alaska project.

Fifth grade has been full of projects....It seemed like Andrew spent the year doing lots of different big projects - reports, science fair, etc.... He loved it. We found out lots of good stuff about Alaska. We really need to go there now.