kira is 4 months!!!!

ok everyone sorry i never been posting fo a while,,,so here are some new pictures of our little princess.

she is sitting by herself for a few seconds

Kira in blue

Here are a few pics we took this morning. We couldn't get her to open her eyes very well, maybe next week she wont sleep all the time and we can get a good look at her little black asian eyes.

Kira JaNell

Well, we finally had kira!!!!!!!! yipeeeeeee. Labor went good for len, she got induced at 8 in the morning and by 10 she was ready for the epideral. Then at 1:56pm kira came into the dark and dreary world wondering what the heck just happened! The midwife said she heard a little crack when she came out because she was kinda sideways and looking up so her left shoulder got caught on len's bone. The doctors did an x-ray and comfirmed that her little collar bone had cracked. They said it would only take a few days to heal though luckily. We came home the next day. She is slightly jaundice so we had to get the lights on friday night, so it hasn't been much fun trying to keep her happy while she's in there. hopefully by monday she will be ok. Here are some pictures of our little chinese looking Kira JaNell Peterson!

She looks a little different now and I'll get some new ones posted as soon as she gets out of the oven.

Don't try this!

So I would like to tell you about a "fun" trip I had yesterday. It all started out when Gabe Patterson called me up and asked if me and Ted wanted to go on a ride after work, I told him heck ya, I had been aching to take my cycle out for a long time. So after work it was all cold and snowy on the mountain (isn't it supposed to be spring??? ohhh thats right we live in wayne county) We decided to go anyway. So me, Dan, (len's dad) Ted and Gabe took off (dan rode on back with ted) and decided to go up the saddle pass trail and see how far we could get. We hit snow just past the old sawmill but it was fresh snow that had just fallen yesterday and it wasn't too deep. after a while, we started getting into the deep snow but it was so cold that we could just ride over the drifts. It was soo beautiful! It was snowing a little and the sun was peaking over the table from the west through the fog, I've never seen the back side of the mountain in the winter because of all the snow, but there we were just riding over huge 5 foot drifts like we were snowboarding. So Ted and Gabe had it easy with their big 800 4 wheelers, Me on the other hand, I had the old Beta motorcycle, and it wasn't so easy to control in the snow. I soon figured out that if I went first and blazed my own trail, I was fine and all I had to do was keep all my wait on my back tire in order to keep from sliding around alot. Well, after 2 hours of this, my back was killing me! So we made it to the trail that heads back to Neff's and decided that we'd made it this far without any problems, so we could surely make it back to lyman through the neff's trail.. So we took off, and what do you know, not 100 yards from the trail head, we hit a soft drift that was about 50 yards long. I didn't have a prayer, I just had to try and push my bike through it all, sinking to my thighs in snow. but Dan helped me out and we were able to get through. Ted got stuck too and we had to help him out. So thus began our (especially My) struggles. every hill we approached I would have to bail off and try to keep from sinking to deep and just push with all my might. Ted would get stuck too, so Dan would stay back and help him. Punk Gabe didn't even get stuck but he would have to help ted too. So here I was in front of the pack, I'd just get my bike up a hill and go a few yards and I'd have to push it up another one. I thought I would die! my arms were burning, my lungs were out of oxygen and my legs were soaked! Well by the time we made it up the hills and the land finally leveled out, it was dark and I had no head light (another story), so I had to have ted behind me shining the way. We finally made it out off the timber and to where you have to cross the creek, I being in front was the first to cross and as I gassed my bike in order to make it through, my front tire hit ice on the other side and I stopped right in the middle of the crick. so there I was stuck in the drink and I couldn't lift my front tire up on the ice and it would'nt break either, so ted came and helped me and we got it out. By this time I was cursing under my breath... wait, no I was just cursing... and we finally made it to red canyon where the going would be easy. RIGHT! little did I know this would be the worst part! so I was trucking along down the clay hills and all the sudden my front wheel locked and turned a 90 and I jumped off and the bike went down. WHAT the. So all the wet clay was getting trapped between my tire, fender and front forks and it was just like someone was grabbing my front brake the WHOLE way down the freakin mountain! It was all I could do to keep my tire from turning to the left or right, and I had to push with both arms equally hard or it would do so. One time it was so bad that my bike just stopped and my engine died! so Dan got a stick and helped clean it out (oh ya, Ted and gabe were behind me the whole way down going like 5 miles per hour, so by this time I'm sure they were sick of my predicament) So finally we made it down to horse valley after a couple more crashes and cleaning out my tire, so we sent gabe home and I had ted follow me and light the way... SHWEEW, I thought that was the end of all my struggles. it wasn't I ran out of gas on the last straight away a mile from town. HOLY SHICK. I just wanted to throw my bike down and sleep right there because I had nothing left. my arms were jello, my hands were locked around my grips in a death grip, besides being frozen and my feet were soaked. Well, I sent ted and dan home to see if there was any more mixed gas at dad's house and I started pushing the bike home. I made it all the way to seth chappells before the got back to me, bringing a jug of non mixed, so I just told them I would push it home. By the time I got home and parked the bon of a sitchen bike, it was all I could do to keep myself from laying down right there on the cold cement just steps from the house, but I forced myself up the steps and through the door. Man, I've never been so tired in my life! You know how sometimes you just say that because your tired? Ya, this really was the most tired I have ever been in my life. We started riding at 6, and when I walked through the door it was 10pm! So me and dan proceded to tell each other how that trip was the craziest thing we'd ever done and that neither of us would ever forget it! So sorry this was such a long post, but I just thought you might want to know that we were the first ones to make it around Thousand Lake this year!!!!! Yippee! Was it worth it? HEll NO! excuse the language.... (please)

baby shower,,,,,,,

Yesterday mom,pam,lori and sarah gave me a baby shower. mom made a vegetable pizza and brought lots of fruits like pineapple,grapes and strawberries. and lori made a jello cake. it was so good and we had fun.kira got a lots of clothes,diapers etc.... i can't put all the pictures so i think this is good for now untill i get some baby shower pictures from pam....
this is her car seat

i love this dress

shoes...

these are so cute.....

Kira's Room....

Is been a long time the last time we blog so this is what i been doing. i paint my little girl room is dark cchocolate with pink polka dots and light pink with brown polka dots. and the room is ready we are just waiting for her to come and sleep in her room.......

this is the middle wall

this is the 2 wall colors in kira's room

Ignore expiration dates!

I knew it all along. stupid expiration dates

IT'S A GIRL!

Len had her ultrasound yesterday and we found out that we will be having a girl! We're pretty excited about it, and len can't stop thinking about pink things. We've thought of a few names and we like Jasmine, Mia (but we already have a Mya) Leah, Lana, Isabella, and Kira. middle names we like are Rose (after len's grandma rosemary) or Lynn or something to that effect. Let us know what you guys think!

Our new van

Well, we finally had to brake down and purchase a new car since we will be having a couple new additions to our family... first Len's father Danny will be coming to live with us in a month or two, and also we are excited for the arrival of our new baby. So len's dream used to be a honda pilot, then when she saw julie's Odyssey, she decided she wanted one of those instead. Well, I told her as long as she pays for it then we could get one.. So we called around a found a great deal on a 2008 Odyssey lx with only 12,300 miles on it that is still under the 100,000 mile warranty, so we jumped on it. The kids are really enjoying it so far, vince always takes the back seat while ammon sits behind me and helps me spot deer on the sides of the road (because he whines about not getting to sit by vince) this way the kids don't fight. Me and len love finally owning a nice car that we don't have to worry about braking down every time we go somewhere!

Christmas time is here!!!!!

So we were a little late getting a yule tide brush this year... we went up past the loa dump last saturday and picked out the least scraggly looking trees we could find. We had a good time throwing snow around and drinking warm chocolate!

Found a good site to download music!

I found this cool web site called mp3panda, it offers songs for 5 cents a piece and entire albums for 50 cents. Its legit, and when you register you can refill your balance in order to download songs. Right now they are having a holiday special so when you add $20 bucks to your account, they will automatically double it for free. Me and len tried it out and we've downloaded 500 songs and we still have $20!... we cant think of anything else we want to download though. You just download a download manager ,its not a p2p site just direct downloads and it doesn't download any other garbage on you computer, just the download program. Then you can use your mp3 anywhere, you can burn them to cd or put them into itunes. anyhow, give it a try! It sure beats buying songs for a buck a piece on itunes! I posted a link at the top of the page.

Happy Holloween!!!!

We had a good holloween this year we all have costume.we had a primary party and after our party we went trick or treating. ammon and vince had a blast.the kids' buckets were full of candies when we got home.

shaun(wolverine)len(i dont know) mom said princess jasmine

vince(bumble bee)tj(optimus prime)ammon(spiderman man)

Ammon 'The Spiderman'

Our weekend Trip!!!!!

on oct.24,2009 we went to nevada by lemans caves and pick pine nuts,its a long drive my goodness.the first day we pick pine nuts for 3 long hours and the second day we pick 4 more long hours.i think the first day it was fun for vince,ammon and me because is not very long but the next day they are not very good they keep shouting me and tell me that they are ready to go home.so i told shaun im done and im not gonna pick up some more so me and the kids stay by the car and wait for dad,mom and shaun to finish picking up pine nuts.so in short story we pick 30lbs and 60z and mom and dad they pick 30lbs and 40z so i think we did good.we had fun!!!!! but i dont know if i wanna go pick up some pine nuts again its a hard work.......


check this out guys we saw this horns on the way to our hotel.how many deers or elks do you think is that????thats a lot of horns...

we pick a lots of pine nuts.......

they are huge pine nuts..........

happy anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow is been a long time the last time i posted,so i think i need to catch up.Last Oct.11 2009 we celebrate our 7years anniversary i can't believe that i been married for that long.now we have two children vince is 6 and ammon is 3.happy anniversary shaun!!!!!

Len's new hair cut

I forgot to post a pic of len in her new haircut. I like it.

Then Ammon was being a kook and pulling his eyebrow trick so I snapped a shot.

It has been really smokey outside as most of you already know, so I tried to get a shot at the sun tonight while I was changing uncle Kay's sprinklers. It looked pretty sweet!

(uh, looks like the order of my pics is backwards sorry)

Len

Happy Birthday Ammon!

So we went up north to visit our filipino "family" last weekend for Ammon's birthday. We stayed at Robert and Luisa's house, they are very nice and always spoil us when we go there. Friday night we had barbeque tri tip beef that was so good... I'd never had it before but holy cow I'm going to have to start cooking it. Then on Saturday we went to Yayeh's house (she's a filipino and her american husband Bob is a nurse) they are so nice and always cook tons of filipino food when we come. One of the other filipina's had this blow-up water slide that the kids played on for hours, then we sang happy birthday opened presents and had cake and ice cream and later that night we sang karaoke for a couple hours. It was just like we were in the Philippines again... and the kids had a blast playing with all the other kids. On Sunday morning I (shaun) went fly-fishing with robert, bob and another of their friends Mitch. We got up at 4:15 am and arrived at the Weber river around 6:30. So Bob is an expert fly fisher and on saturday spent a couple hours teaching me how to cast and everything to get me ready. He let me borrow waders, boots, and his very expensive fishing pole. It was a blast walking around in the river in the waders trying to catch fish (key word trying) everyone caught one but me. After we got home that afternoon we had another party for another of one of our friends named Sally who's husband went on a mission back in 92. By sunday night we were partied out and we finally got home at 12am.