Pre-birthday interview with Lilly and Drew

I asked the same questions to both kids.


Where are we having your birthday party?
Drew- "A pumpkin patch"
Lilly- "Pukin patch.....jump. jump."(there is going to be a jumpy house there)

What present do you hope you get for your birthday?
Drew- "A big big big monster truck"
Lilly- "chocolate cake"

How old are you going to be on Sunday?
Drew- "I'm going to be three."
Lilly- "Big Nemo"(I think she is confusing all questions with what are you going to be for Halloween?)

The early birthday gift

Did I just really witness that?

So I just have to share about a wedding that Todd and I attending recently.

Here we are before the reception. Isn't he handsome?


So here are some facts about this wedding:

1. The invitation was sent in a package the size of a shoe box, that really was more of a photo album outlining a four day celebration starting with a catered dinner Thursday evening, something else that I don't remember Friday, wedding Saturday, and then a "day at the park" Sunday. It was like a itinerary for an all expenses paid cruise.

2. Open Bar with every goodie. Filet Mignon and Lobster for dinner. I,of course, opted for the vegetarian because I am annoying like that.

3. There was a private train that the bridal party rode in on to start the reception.

4. The ceremony took place in a beautiful redwood forest overlooking a private lake.

5. While admiring the surroundings of where the ceremony took place, there was a live 3 piece orchestra of some sort playing in the background including a harp, violin, and cello.

6. At the reception, the couples monogrammed initials were made into spot lights on the dance floor.

7. They had a photo booth with a variety of costumes, hats, masks, and other silly things to wear as their guest book feature. After you indulged in the photo booth which is really something I enjoyed, you went over to the "scrap-booking-craft" table where you personally designed a page to go in their guest book. There were six pictures from the photo booth. Three went in their guest book and three you got to take home.

8. And I saved the best for last. As we were seated and given a program at the ceremony, we were also given a small triangular shaped box closed by a rubber band. When I asked what this was(maybe a chocolate or something edible) I was told the box held a live monarch butterfly and all guests were going to release them together at the end of the ceremony. I seriously chuckled and asked the girl really what was in the box. Then......I suddenly felt small vibrations coming from the box. I peeked in the small air holes to witness this butterfly trying to get out. Ummmmm this is a true story. Is anybody else out there laughing right now? I was wrong on my edible prediction. Boy was I wrong. I think my butterfly was injured because when the time came to release this creature in all it's glorious beauty, mine did not move. And to make matters worse, I think it pooped or something all over itself and the box.

The ones we kept


Holy Moly..what a wedding

Will she get the call back?

Cindy Loo Who? She really would be great next to the grinch.

Hey, it's something, right?

For those of you who's eyes ever wander over to check my blog list and specifically look at Elissa's blog(busy me busy with three)....let me just say that I am not Elissa. I wish I had a fraction of her craftiness and really just energy to do all the awesome things she does with her kids.

But I do like to teach my kids and I like my kids learning new things. And isn't this blog about the everyday life of the Petersen's?

Drum roll please.

So starts, a very down scaled version of an at home preschool. As of now we are starting with letters. Here are just a couple things we did involving the letter A.


We have made alligators and read alligator books. Highly recommend the book. While reading the book, the kids have their alligator's acting out parts in the book. It's like a mini-play in our living room.






We visited lots of airplanes at the Pacific Air Coast Museum. Just a little fun thing to do on the first Thursday of every month, they have a BBQ out there. It's only 5 dollars and you get a HUGE BBQ hot dog,(don't puke in your mouth because I admit I eat hot dogs people) chips, fruit or chili, and a drink. But the food was not the best part...the kids got to get up close personal with some really awesome airplanes.


As an added bonus, Todd met us for lunch and got to enjoy the Petersen twin school field trip too.

How could I forget?

I had a few more potty training pictures.

We had sticker potty charts for our dolls in the morning and I would like to show each of my kids charts.


Drew's


Lilly's


There is so much said from the difference of these charts about my children.



I also forgot to show what each of my kids picked out as being "big kids" that go on the potty after our potty training weekend. We took a luxurious trip to WALMART on Sunday evening(oh how glorious)

Is it too much?