The Wedding

These pictures are unedited, I am just throwing them on right now so Greg and Haylee can see them. I will add better ones soon! LOVE YOU GUYS! Jeff was amazing- Cailey looked beautiful, and the whole evening was great. They had a nummy dinner afterwards (complete w/ funeral pototoes- go Mormon's!) and the kids had a ton of fun visiting with each other. Larry and his two girls came up. The only one we missed was Steph, but it was important she and the kids were at Adam's family reunion. We're all planning ahead now for when they have their open house, and for when they go through the temple. HOORAY- more family occasions to look forward to. As for me, I am just glad that she's Bean now!

Joseph- Father of Jesus

I know that as parents, it's the time of year when we are always wondering how to answer our kids interesting holiday questions- why are there two Santa's, which one is the real Santa, how can he visit all of the houses, we don't have a chimney- how does he get in, how do reindeer fly. I have to say, I have some pretty good answers to all of these questions, but Brooke came up with a Christmas question that stopped me in my tracks last week. Thought I would share.

"Mom, When did Joseph become a God?"
"Hmm, Brooke. He isn't a God, he's a man just like your dad. What makes you think that?"
"Well, in the scriptures it says that Jesus was the son of God. So instead he is the son of Joseph?"
"OH- I see what you are saying. Joseph was Jesus' adopted father (Brooke has a pretty good grasp of this) and Heavenly Father is Jesus real father."

Here is where you can see Brooke's little wheels turning-she really thinks and analyzes everything. She's also old enough that she has a small understanding of how babies come to be- ya know- a mom and a dad- etc.

"Mom, are you telling me that Mary is Jesus mom and Heavenly Father is his dad?" You can hear the implied question in her voice.
"Yes, that's what I am saying, but it's not like that." (Sigh)
"SO- then how is it?"
"Ya, Brooke- I don't know the answer to that... I just know that it's not like we're thinking. Hey Brooke, look, there's a Santa, How do you think he gets those reindeer to fly?"

I know that I didn't handle it exactly right, but there are some questions that I just don't know the answer to and that are bigger then my brain.

Raindrop size

Because you asked . . .

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropsizes.html

HELP!

Okay, Siblings- I don't know what to do. My Blog is messed up! The top bar when I go to post doesn't show the Font choices (color, size, type, etc) it only allows upload of pictures of video. BUT when I go to upload pictures, it only shows gobbly gook letters- no pictures. Can you make it better?? THANKS!

Petersens Young

I was thinking a few months ago that I have never seen a picture of Grandpa and Grandma Petersen when they were young. We have so few pictures of them, but I was glad that Mom was able to rummage up the one above. The younger kids probably don't remember much about these two when they were old, let alone when they were younger, so I thought I would post these pictures. Grandma pretty much looks the same to me; I see very little resemblance between anyone in our family . . . what do you think?

I Remember

I remember:

A box full of oranges
Picking out a christmas tree at the Elves Christmas Forest
The Carpenters Christmas CD

Mom taking FOREVER to put the lights on the tree

The tree always looking amazing because mom took forever

The manger scene tree ornament

A special FHE to put up mom's Nativity scene

Watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

Trips with all of us stuffed in the van to see the lights

Christmas parties at dad's bank

Sugar cookies with icing three inches high

Egg nog in dad's wooden glasses with the faces

Our Christmas eve program that Jenny would always put together

Dancing to "Have a Funky Christmas" by New Kids on the block

A HUGE "It's the Night Before Christmas" book

Listening to the Burl Ives narration of the christmas story

Opening a gift on christmas eve

Sleeping in the same room on christmas eve

Not getting any sleep because we slept in the same room

Pounding on the ceiling to wake mom and dad up on christmas morning

Dying of boredom waiting for them to tell us we could come up

Boxes of cereal in our stockings

Dying of boredom while we waited for our turn to open a gift

Always having a really great christmas

Thanks Mom and Dad for making our childhood so special!!

I'm curious as to what all of you remember about christmas when we were kids.

Do share!!