Alauna in the tub

She likes to play in Mama's tub.

Toby is hiding from Hiro

Toby likes to get away from Hiro once in a while and has found how to climb up the jungle gym.

One of the Perks of Joshua's Preschool

Nine Large Bucks munched right outside the door of Joshua's preschool. It was so fun to see what a live deer looks like! (the dead ones on grandpa's wall just don't do these animals justice, sorry grandpa)

1 Month's Progress

The Petterons 1st Anniversary

i thought it would be fun to make something on our anniversary that we could look back and laugh at...i don't think the following will disappoint us in 50 years:

it all started out quite clean and civil....

matthew tried connecting with his inner artist...bless his heart he tried

finger painting took more focus and concentration than we expected

post battle treaty

little red house by matt, ash, and merv

merv the majestic by matt



opps by ash....it may take me more than a year to learn how to spell Peterson...



A little MLK Day fun.

On Monday we all had the day off and decided to go to the Nickelcade and have some fun. After Sherry got over all of the germy kids running around she showed the girls how to play skeeball. She did a good job and the girls had fun they got a lot of tickets. The highlight of the day was when I got the jackpot on some stupid ball drop game. Net ticket income, 575, over half of our winnings. Too bad it wasn't Wendover.


Milan has happy watching the tickets pour out of the machine. She was sure that see was going to get the big prize at the prize booth. She ened up getting a gun that makes bubbles. The other girls got PEZ despensers.

Our New Favorite Games

We have had such a great time playing Settlers of America and Ticket to Ride, they are awesome games even with Brian winning every time we play!

home screen

Here is a screen shot of my Nook Color home screen.



Kari hates it.

Ben's first broken bone

Ben broke is collar bone yesterday in two places! He was playing recess football. Even with all the pain, Ben is pretty happy. It was the last play of the game and he intercepted the ball and went for a touch down. He won the game! Ben also is now part of the Cochran club. Grandpa Cochran broke is collar bone playing football in high school. Brian broke his collar bone playing football in College and now Ben in elementary school. He is so excited to keep up with tradition! 2 down one more kid to go....

Milan

Smile for the camera.
Just taking a couple of shots at Milan tonight. Is she Bell or is she Mary? How about just a well dressed Mary.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

Tonight you will hear from me Matt! So my dear, LOVELY, little, wifey Ashie bought me an iphone4 for my birthday :-D I know what my sisters are thinking, that it is still a month away, but i broke my last iphone and we agreed it would be nice to have one when we travel to the alberkquerquereee (not going to even attempt to spell that one right) in a few weeks, so we decided to get one early! This life changing event has been a turning point for me. From here on out i will refer to my life as that before the iphone4 and my life after the iphone4!


jk, ash :) 12310 was more of a life alternating event then any iphone will ever be! happy anniversary next week. love ya,

Matter

Sunday night at the Widdison's

The most "exciting" thing that happened around here this week is that Bethany caught a terrible cold. One of those colds that make you feel like you really just might die. The first night it felt like she slept about 1 hour. Finally, around 4am I told her to go watch T.V.. So after that we set up camp in the Lazy Boy in the play room. That way she could be elevated a bit to help her not to cough so much. It worked pretty good. It's become a nice little sick room. She didn't want me to take a pic of her fever blisters, so sorry the pic is blurry. It's all I could get. Poor thing. She gets them every time she runs a high temp. Tonight we are on the mend. Kurt and Sam are reading their bedtime story. A highlight of Sam's day. Tonight is the Magic Tree House, the one about the pirates. Boswell is tired. When Beth is up, he's up. And since she has been on house arrest since Thursday, he hasn't had his alone kennel sleep time during the day. So, as you can see I think Martin Luther Day will be a final sick day for Beth and off to school Tuesday. :) Kurt has to work, as usual, so nothing much "exciting" going on around here. Gnite.

Nose!

Alauna

Alauna is chilling in her high chair. Did I mention that she climbed up and sat down all by her self. Little miss independent. Also, we are officially done with the binki.

Matt's doppleganger

Matt's doppleganger

First Times

Well it was a night of firsts. Marina lost her first tooth at aunt Kari's and Tater pulled his first tooth out as a dad. Well it was more like he caught his first tooth as it was hanging on my the smallest bit of skin.

couple of kittens

pals getting ready to go play out in the snow...don't mind matt's hat hair

Proud Papa or Mad Mama?

AR stands for accelerated reader. This is a program that Bethany's school does. Basically, every quarter based on their reading level, they are required to read a certain amount and test on their comprehension. If they reach 100%, they are rewarded with a field trip. The student with the highest percentage receives an additional reward which is a $5 gift card to Walmart. Not to brag, BUT Bethany usually wins the gift card. This quarter she has been a little bit lazy. When she realized she wasn't going to have the highest percentage in the class, she decided she would hit 100% exactly. She started checking out books that would get her close to, but not over the 100% mark. Once she reached 99.3% she realized she had a little problem. She could only check out books that would be worth one percent, which would put her at 100.3%. No good! She checked out a book on jelly fish, read it 4 times and purposely missed 3 questions on the test. What a poop! A smart one though!

This is what happens when the jammies are just a wee bit too big.

What Ben did over Christmas Vacation

Brian bought the boys a basketball hoop for Christmas and since our driveway is not flat we put it up in the garage. Ben has a goal of at least 100 baskets a day which he easily accomplishes in about 20 minutes. He has been logging about 2 hours in his heated court (notice all the crap around him, yea we haven't organized the garage since we moved in, Matt and Brian where going to make shelves over thanksgiving but we had too much fun eating, playing games and fighting over Aunt Ashley's attention!)Hoping for a NBA all star one day! I would be happy if he makes it out of high school with no major injuries

"I fly? No, you fall'd"

Shari should get my title. Land before time moment. Anyways, Kurt got an Ifly flight for Christmas from the fam. Kurt and his friends Reggie and Nic had their flight Saturday morning. It was fun. Even fun to watch. 2 one minute sessions and the old men are pretty sore today. It was a little crazy. What will we think of next?

The winner of the contest....Kurtis

My friend Michelle had an ugly sweater/New Years Eve party. Way fun. Kurt was the grand prize winner. Ugliest sweater by a landslide - sorry mom. The sweater has seen better days. This is the first time in years that all of the Widdisons were awake to ring in the new year. Sam zonked out putting on his shoes to go home. Way to make it past midnight buddy! The sweaty guy is our friend Nic. He was an ugly sweater. Ha, Ha.

Old Photo

Just wishing it was warm again...

Winter things

Favorite Tree


Fresh Powder

sports -j

Happy New YEARS!! Little late on my post but with hostings a party for 30 and our water heater going out I've been a little busy.... It's been a great 365 days, learned a lot, glad we did it, even happier its over! Here's to 52 post for next year! (I think that's a reasonable goal!) JEN :>