Because I haven't

Haven't blogged, but have intended to. What is the current status with the Petersens? Most of you have the update, but it is fun to read. I will also add pictures. Hmmm, where to start.

Joe. He has his meeting in Atlanta this week. Pray. Then pray some more please. Making lots of cakes and loving it. It is really fun to watch him. He plans to teach all the kids, once they are old enough. I think that is awesome. I will never have to bake a cake again!

Heather (me!). I miss food. My crazy stomach cramping thing is really starting to get old. I have found if I eat no more than about 1 cup of food at any one time, I do pretty well. This is doing great things for my metabolism and I am losing weight. I'm pretty sure it is cheating to get sick and not eat every time I need to lose weight, but it works! Young Womens is crazy, but it always is about this time. Being a mom is as tiring as ever with all the sports, but exciting. My colonoscopy and biopsy were normal. Blah blah. It took 1 nurse, 1 doctor, and 3 anesthesiologist to get the I.V. in. At this point I was going into shock and hyperventilating. So, they put me on oxygen and knocked me out. So much for routine. The bruising was rediculous. Never, ever, ever, let anyone, under any circumstances, put a needle into the inside of your wrist. EVER! PAIN! This is a picture of two of the attempts. There were 6!

April is really starting to get in to softball. She is the youngest on her team, but you wouldn't know it. She is missing friends, but now that summer is here, we are hoping to have more play dates. She is no longer attending 4H meetings, because of some things that happened. She is still planning on entering the fair in August. She is getting entirely too grown up. She told me the other day, she was tired of people telling her wht to do. She knows what to do, just tell her to do it. Umm, o.k.? She is really doing well with piano. She has even started teaching Joe.


Chloe is still Chloe. Need I say more. She takes life as it comes, cries sporadically and laughs a lot. She too is enjoying her softball. Chloe has made it her goal to keep up with Daddy in piano. She is doing well.

Ethan is still recovering from a nice crash with his slide. It left a nice black eye. Ethan insists he won the battle. He was very excited to have a black eye for t-ball pictures and disappointed to see it healing. Ahhh, boys will be boys. I don't have a great picture of the eye, too bad.



Collin broke his baby toes running through the kitchen. Yes, boys will be boys part 2. He keeps slamming it against things and it is crazy swollen. I think I am going to have to put him in shoes round the clock for a while. And his birthday's coming up. Or at least he has been telling me, for 3 months.


David is roly poly and lovin solid foods. He is starting to move around quite a bit and is just about to break through tooth 3. Chews on everything. Crib included. Despite what he may think, we do not consider these things to be acceptable solid foods.


Whew, how is that for an update? Enjoy the pics.

I've been busy

These are the three graduation cakes that it did in the last three days. The eight inched was nothing special except that the recipient was not expecting it. The very green cake was for a nonmber friend of the bishop's. The won it from the YW fundraiser. The last, and best, was for my cousins party. If was funfetti cake with a custard layer and rasberry creme flavored frosting. It was really fun.










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A job

I wanted to tell you all that I got a job! It's only one hour per week, but I am still very excited about it. I get to help teach a 5th grader English. The pay is good, but I'm more excited about the challenge. Her last teacher was a native Chinese speaker who learned English as a second language and she got explanations in Chinese. Now, all of her explanations will be in English. Her English will improve because she doesn't have the crutch of using Chinese to understand English. The challenge for me is trying to explain things using the English she already knows. Yesterday was my first day and it went well. I can explain most things quite easily, using English explanations, hand motions and the little Chinese I know. I just had one major obstacle. For the life of me I couldn't explain what a law, law firm or lawyer were.

Anyways, just excited, and wanted to share.

Firsts

Another post about Jaime's firsts, only this time, unanticipated and undesired firsts.

Tonight we attended an American style reception to welcome a U.S. Consulate General speaker from Shanghai. We were invited as native English speakers to help the English students practice their conversational English. Many girls wanted to hold our Jaime Lynne, and one lady insisted on holding her while Justin and I ate our American BBQ (yum!). Well, she ended up holding Jaime the entire evening. Most of the time I wasn't even aware of where she was at, since I was engrossed in English conversations with small crowds of people that gathered around me to ask questions. When she finally got back to Justin and I she had stains all over her shirt (from a tomato, no biggie), crumbs all over her face (from a cookie, NOT okay!) and a mosquito bite on her cheek. I kind of freaked out... I thought those stains were from the BBQ and that someone had fed her beef. Not as serious as I had thought, but still she hadn't been allowed flour, sugar or chocolate before tonight. It was hard to handle, but I had dealt with this before. Some ladies in Taiwan gave Jaime her first taste of real food without my knowledge or consent while I was in the temple.

When I got Jaime back in my arms she squirmed and fussed much more than when I had let her go. I chalked it up to the fact that I was just one person who wasn't exciting, as opposed to several Chinese girls gathered around her, all trying to make her smile, giving her toys and food. I don't know what I've gotten myself into.

Soooo Cold!

Ummm...where is SPRING? It is snowing at my house this morning and I am feeling rather glum about it. My kids just walked into the kitchen armed in their coats hats and gloves to go outside. Every half hour or so I peek out the back windows to mourn over my budding and snow covered garden. Here's to hoping it doesn't freeze. It's looking so vunerable. Don't get me wrong...this is Utah and we actually pray for moisture here. I suppose we were just hoping for rain insteasd of snow. Love you all and I'll see most of you in a couple of weeks...yeah!

So cute!

Ok, so Jacob just came up to me to tell me that he loved his birthday. He loved his presents. He loved his food. He loved everything about it! Then, he went back to play in his new sandbox. It was the cutest thing ever, so I just had to share. 4 year olds are SO cute!

Happy.....

Happy Birthday Jacob--4 years old--already! And...Happy Anniversary, Justin and Jodi!
Hope you've all had a great day!