I'm going to see David Gray!!!

So, today was my birthday and my wonderful Steve gave me two presents. The first one I opened was the new David Gray CD, and then I opened the big one, tickets to see him in concert next Monday!! I was so excited, I could hardly stand it! I've been listening to the cd every chance I get, I just can't get enough David!

Here's a picture of me with my cd and tickets. Oh yeah, and my new, badly needed, hairdo! 

My cute little Minnie Mouse!

So, yes, I have gone a little to the Disney side of things with Emarie's costumes! Last year she was Tinkerbell, and this year, she's Minnie Mouse. I was very proud of finding her Minnie costume 50% off at the Disney Store!

So here she is as Tink last year

And here she is as Minnie

Doesn't look too thrilled in this one!

Then I took her inside, but all she did was take the pumpkins off the shelf

        This is a weird pumpkin!

I just can't wait for Halloween!

Halloween is Coming!!

So, Saturday we went to Pumpkinland. It was Emarie and Steve's first time there. I've been going every year with the preschool though. I also grew up going there every year. The first few pictures are at Pumpkinland, and then Em out in front of our overly decorated house with her pumpkins. And the last picture is of the end result of my carving the pumpkins.

I have the best kid in the whole world!

Man oh man, I love this girl! I had to take her to work since I was running really late today. I'm not really supposed to take her anymore on Fridays, although I don't have any kids here, but I still do once in awhile. My grandma Andrews watches her most Fridays, which is very nice!

So, I am so busy trying to get in my end of month assessments, and Emarie is just busy playing with her toys (including her drum, which is her fave!) and then she'd look up at me once and awhile and just kill me with her smile! I just can't even express in words how much I love this girl!

Emarie's First time in Nursery!

Well, Emarie went to Nursery for the first time yesterday in church. She could've been going since she was 18 months, but everytime I looked in there all I could think was "those kids are going to trample her!" But they have put together a more mellow, smaller (as in the children's size, but still considerably bigger than Em) class. Steve and I stayed with her the whole time, since we were too afraid to leave, but she did great! The only hitch was when she almost fell off her chair trying to take back a crayon that one of the kids stole from her (but I caught her! See, lucky I was there!) Also, she didn't really know what to with the marshmallow snack they laid out in front of her, we will have to work on that!

Sorry, no pictures this time, but I will try to get one next week!

Family Pics by the wonderful Lacey Lyn, who happens to be my best friend!

It has been too long since there was a Peters' family picture! The last one was over 5 years ago, and didn't include the newest four additions (Ulises, Isabel, Emarie, and Kevin)! So, Steve and I told his mom at Christmas that that was what we were giving the family, but we wanted to wait for Kevin and Amber to be married, so we've just gotten them done!

So my best friend, Lacey took them for us up at the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake. Here are a few for you to see!

               My favorite group shot!

Another group shot, featuring all 14 family members!

    The girls, minus the babies

The three youngest boys jumping off the wall

The Peters kids, L to R: Brian, Steve, Amber, Mike, Cory, Rachelle, Jeff, Kristal. That's not birth order

The boys

Lacey made us do this! J/K, I love this pic!

Emarie being blown away by a gust of wind, haha!

The newlyweds, Kevin and Amber

       Kristal, Ulises and Isabel, the next Newlyweds 3 1/2 years

   The first married children, almost 6 years now!

Love this red bridge, in the Japanese Garden!

Trip to the Hogle Zoo

So, we decided to go to the zoo on a day that wouldn't be so hot. It did rain the whole drive up, but fortunately (I guess) we were stuck in construction traffic (3 left lanes closed) that made it so we bypassed the rain completely. However, we did not expect it to be so COLD when we got there, but luckily it did warm up half way through! 

We knew there were a lot of new babies there, but we didn't imagine how cute they would be! Unfortunately, we couldn't see the baby elephant cause it was too young. But, we did see a baby giraffe, a baby orangutan, a baby snow leopard, and the baby meerkats (Emarie's favorite! No pics of that, but we do have video, I'll post later). So, enjoy the pictures from our fun trip to the zoo!              Okay, let's go already!!

Emarie and Daddy in Madagascar exhibit

     Mommy and Em in Madagascar

Did I mention it was COLD at the start of the day!

              OOOH Cool! A Sloth!

Here's a Madagascar tortoise that Em didn't want to touch!

Em, Daddy and some Zebras!

Lots of babies at the zoo! Here's the baby Orangutan

      And the baby Giraffe, sooo cute!

Mommy and Em on the carousel, Em wasn't so sure at first.......

       But ended up really liking it!

We had to try out the Giraffe too!

I sat her in the Gorilla's lap and she did not care for it!

The bird show, which I did not care for! But Em and Steve sure liked it!

  We sure wore her out by the end of the day! She slept the whole way home!