Another give-a-way

My friend Letti is doing another one of these peony give-a-ways on her blog, my cousin makes these and they are so so cute. To enter the give-a-way you need to go to Letti's blog www.abunchofbyrds.blogspot.com follow the directions and you can enter to win this very cute peony!!! Hurry though it ends tomorrow!!

I've lost my helpers

So Kyle and Kam's are in school all day they leave at 7:10 in the morning and get home around 4:30 it really is such a long day, long day for them and me and I must say I am missing them. They are both so helpful and it's a lot more quiet with out them here.

But I will say so far I am loving the education they are getting. Kambree's class read a story about George Washington, they get to learn a lot about our founding fathers, classical education looks to the past for ways we can learn to live good lives. They talk about minute men and the Revolutionary war, they are actually growing plants for science, they have P.E. one day and Music the other and rotate every other day so they get both atleast twice a week insted of the once a week for both at the regular public school and they are learning wisdom and virtue. They are being taught you cannot only be wise, history tells us and shows us that wise men and women can be evil and do evil things to each other. In order for people to be able to fulfill their purposes in life they must be both wise and virtuous. If you are wise and virtuous then you can be a true righteous leader. They are teaching the kids about "the greater things in life" which they define as Charcter, Charity, Civility, Destiny, Dicipline, Excellence, Industry and Thrift, Integrity, Loyalty, Originality and Creativity, Patriotism, and Service.

Some pretty cool things. It has been neat to see a school focus on teaching children such wonderful traits and attributes while they are being educated. It's nice because they are teaching many of the things we teach our kids in our home so it is neat that they can get it at school too. The schools vision is to teach children how to be good people and fulfill their destiny not to just go out and get a job they feel that if they teach kids how to be good people and prepare them for their destiny they will naturally have a very high self-esteem and become really good people which will in turn prepare them for what ever job they seek and they will give back to society positivily. They have this quote at the bottom of ever page the the parent/student handbook "To every man there comes in his lifetime, that special moment when he is tapped on his shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy, if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour." Winston churchhill

Good stuff!! So far it has been great. But I do miss my helpers and love it when they come home each day!


It was so sweet I caught her reading to lizzie one day.


I miss my Kam's holding Lizzie through out the day!


Kyle wanted me to take this picture cause lizzie had grabbed onto his ear, I think by the time I actually got the picture she had let go but atleast I took the picture for him:) He's a great big brother!

Peony Give-A-Way

I am a little late in posting this but my cousin is very very talented and she has an etsy shop where she makes some very cute hand made things and she is doing these way cute Peony flower clips/pins and they are so stinking cute. Her blog address is www.eoberrys.blogspot.com and she is doing a give-a-way so if you are interested go to her blog and it is the first post on there and you can see her cute stuff and go to her etsy shop from her blog. Anyway just wanted to share in the fun give-a-way cause her stuff is so cute. Hurry though because I think it ends on Monday.

The Princess is Sleeping

I love this Mormon Ad and it fits well with our household of 2 boys, defending their castle with their princesses inside:) Especially the littlest one when she is sleeping. SSShhhhh please do not wake her or the Knights with be after you:) See it for yourself it is cute.

Time out

last weekend I went to Time out for women and it was so so good. It is something Deseret Book puts on and they bring LDS entertainers and speakers and they come and talk and entertain it really was so good. I went with Cynthia and Karen on Friday and My sister-in-law on Saturday it was so fun to go with great friends too.

It was Friday night and most of the day Saturday. I was sad to leave the kids since they had been gone so much at school but it really was such a great spiritual uplifting weekend, makes me want to be a better person and mother. I'll have to put on my playlist some of the songs that were sung there. And I don't know if you know who Mark Mabry is but he photographs real people as Christ and did an exibit of Christ's life for an Easter day show in his community and now has a book etc. If you google Mark Mabry you can see his work, amazing, anyway he was there and told his story and it was so so good! anyway overall it was just a great weekend. I am going next year when they come back in November so if you want to go with me let me know. I love the chance to go to things like that that help me educate myself more and help me to want to be a better Mother, Wife and Person. It really was so so good.

Park City and the 1st Day of School

The kids actually missed their first day of school because we were in Park City. Park City was so fun every year after the Peterson reunion Joe's dad gets a bunch of hotel rooms (I say a bunch because there is a lot of us) at the Marriot and we stay there, it is so fun. We swam, shopped, ate good food, Played games and this year we clebrated Joe's Dad's 60th birthday which the family did some special things for so it really was such a blast. I have to admit I love Park City if you ever get a chance to vacation there go it is so fun. I know you won't have as much fun as we do though because our family is un-matchable :) but it is a fun place and you'll have a blast if you go.

The first day of school (actually the 2nd)--- My big 2nd and 1st grader, they are growing up way to fast. They are going to a Classical Charter school this year and they have a very strict dress code so that is why they are dressed that way. I will post more about the Charter School later, but so far I am really impressed, I am excited for the education they will receive there.

The kids did great for the first day I took them and we went to opening cermony (flag cermony and some cool things they do specific to that charter school). I dropped them off and then picked them up(the day was actually a lot crazier than that but I will spare you all the details) at the end of the day. I asked Kyle how the day was when I picked him up and he said SCARY. There is no playground toys right now, just balls and jump ropes until they get stuff built, uniforms which they are not used to and a different way of learning but a really great opportunity. They were so glad they got to be together I am so glad they are so close so they can be there together. By Friday they were feeling a bit more comfortable and I think they are liking it. Kyle learned about Minutemen and loyalty and charity (not often what you learn about in traditional school) and Kambree's class read a story about George Washington. Already some really cool things in the first few days.

I miss my kids while they are gone to school, it was such a great summer having them at home. It is sad to send them out the door everyday and even scary. It is hard to send your babies out into the real world. They are great kids though.

I am excited for their new adventure and after lots of thoughts and prayer and me learning about what a classical education is ( I need to still learn a lot more that is why I am excited to learn with them) I feel good about the decision to send them there. We'll see what the future brings, I am excited to see. They will begin learning Latin in 3rd grade so there really are just some cool things this school offers.


Kyle and Kambree on their 1st day


Park City, enjoying the hot tub, I sure have a hot hubby, and those are some cute little girls too.

Remember the Petersons!!

Joe's Mom's family had a reunion up at a cabin owned by Joe's Aunt and Uncle near Heber in Utah. We go there every year and have a blast and come back better people. The theme was Remember the Petersons it was a great theme to remember the great things the Peterson legacy has left and all the good things they stand for. They themed it after Remember the Titans. Everything was awesome. There were so many fun activities for the kids including a full on tail gate party. Many games were played, memories were shared and good times were created. Remember is one of my favorite themes (part of why we named Lizzie what we did) so it was really fun to have a weekend to Remember some good things.
Oh and and I must not forget to mention the food it was amazing as always I will always Remember the good food at the Peterson reunions.

We didn't take a lot of pictures:( but here are a few we took.

Kambree sporting her shirt she was the 44th person that came to the Peterson family

I love this picture of Luke in the middle of Grace and Lizzie, you can't see his smile as well as when the picture is big but he is lov'in these cute girls.

Kapri and Lizzie hanging out

All the babies born since the last reunion and Zac will be coming any day now so in the last year and a couple of weeks there will have been 8 babies born.

Kyle and Tase loving the traditional sawdust hunt. These two are great buds and they had a blast playing together.

Kam's going wild

Keeps and Kiwi loving their turn

Our family with G and G Peterson they will not be around forever so we cherish the time we get to spend with them.

Grandma Carol and her daddy Grandpa Peterson with a few of our kiddos

The retro dance with neon lights and all the kids had a blast.

Keeps dancing with Dad with her curlers ready for sunday church the next day:)

And BYU BEAT Oklahoma!!! Yahoo! I had a very happy husband and some very happy brother-in-laws and cousins. They were in football heaven. I married the craziest BYU fan ever and all the other craziest BYU fans come from his family as well, even his 80 year old Grandma, it was a good day with the win. Go BYU!!

Zoo

We took the kids to the Boise Zoo before school started and they loved it.
Fun times with the fam!!

Daddy and and all the kiddos


I seriously thing this was their favorite part of the Zoo, going on the Carousel. All of them loved it!

African hut replica that they store their food in.

That is one big turtle it kind of scard me to tell you the truth it was so big and Kyle kept wanting to get really close to take a picture and I was worried he was going to snap his eye out. He still has both eyes so we are good:)

And one big lizard

Zebra's really are amazing how do they get those stripes?

Cool giraffe, look close:)

Help

How do you add a viedo from you tube to your blog. I have tried to copy the URL and add it but I can't get it to work. Any help??

Rolling

She is just starting to roll and she rolled herself right under Kyle's bed. Look at those cheaks aren't they to die for:)

Flowers for Sister Sutton

Kayelee's Primary teacher has cancer, she had surgery but they are having her do 6 rounds of chemo to make sure they got it all because some had spred to the Lymph Nodes. She has been a great teacher in our primary. She was Kambree's teacher last year and Kayelee's this year. We thought it would be a great opportunity for the kids to think of someone else and take her some flowers, we are always telling them to lift people up so we thought this would be a good way to show them how we can lift people up, serve them, and make their day a little brighter. They loved doing this it was a great opportunity and we could tell Sister Sutton was so happy to be thought of.

Birthday

Opening my presents and sharing my birthday treats.

Kyle took this picture, how I am not exactly sure but kind of cool.

Kyle was trying to be sneaky and hide away in their car so he could go back to Utah with them.

It was my birthday on the 16th, I had a most awesome weekend!!! Pam and Amanda came up to visit and that was such a treat, Pam is almost 9 months pregnant and she made me promise not to post any pictures of her so the only good picture I got on my birthday I can't post but here are a few silly ones for you.

It was a great weekend. Pam and I went shopping and out to Cheesecake Factory to lunch and Amanda and Joe took the kids to Monster's vs. Aliens and then we had a fun BBQ with home made root beer and ice cream. We watched 17 again and played settlers. It really was so fun and it was sad to see them go:(

Joe made everything special and decorated my door and gave me some, cash so I could go shopping.

I must admit I hate growing older but it is fun to have a day to celebrate.