Halloween Night

John's costume parade at school.

Halloween dinner
Carving the pumpkin

Halloween in California

Adam and John had a long weekend right before Halloween, so we decided to take the opportunity to go to California. (It was also our last chance to get out of town before the new baby.) We got to go to the pumpkin patch and Halloween party while we were there- and the kids always love all the attention they get.

Grandpa Peterson let the kids go on this ride. They were so excited and had so much fun!

Princess Katelyn
Princess April
Super John
All the kids- even Charlotte. See her costume?
Trick-or-treat

The Pumpkin Patch

We started our own family tradition of taking the kids to this pumpkin patch to get our pumpkin for Halloween. We love that there is a ranch in the middle of Las Vegas and that we can feed horses, bunnies, donkeys, sheep, pigs, and goats.

Feeding the horses.
April loved that the horses name was Barbie.
John was nervous about getting on the horse. He told April that she should go first. After she did he got on and had a great time.
Katelyn got to ride a horsie too.
Hay ride.

Katelyn's First Birthday

I can't believe my baby is a year old. We had a nice family party for her.

April liked to help open the presents.

Hugs for the dolly.
She LOVES her rocking doggy.
Katelyn's cake to destroy. I made a separate cake for the rest of us.
Happy birthday to you!
I love the little Hitler-stash. Too funny!
Isn't technology great? We were able to share Katelyn's birthday with grandma's and grandpa across the country.
YUM!
Messy baby = Happy baby

7 months pregnant

Only 2 months to go.

Our Life These Days

April LOVES matching dresses with her dolly, Betty. Thanks Aunt Alli!

Tuna casserole everywhere!
April has been dumping out buckets of toys and telling me that she is watering her garden. Well, I got tired of the mess, so Adam and I let John and April each get a flower so that they could have a real garden to water. John was upset when it rained for a week. He said that Heavenly Father was watering his garden, but Johnny wanted to!
Katelyn loves here brother and sister. She is always all smiles when we pick up John from school- Katelyn is just so excited to see him. April and Katelyn like to play together. The other day April decided to give Katelyn a bath and dumped and couple of cups of water on her hear. Katelyn was such a good sport about it. I never would have known if she hadn't been sopping wet!
I love matching outfits! They must be from a cool grandma. :-)

Party for John and April

We decided to throw an informal birthday party for John and April. We put out a slip and slide, small pool, sprinkler, and our ever popular roller coaster (thanks Erin!). We said no presents, but we did do a cake. The kids all had a lot of fun and it was a nice excuse to have friends come and visit.

I thought the cake turned out very cute- if I do say so myself.
Blowing out the candles.
Having fun in the water.
The slip and slide doubles as a drinking fountain.

Dinosaur Park

We decided to take the kids up to Dinosaur Park to check it out. I'd heard it was a fun place. It had a HUGE 3 story playground, a place to dig for "fossils" and a spray park. The kids had a lot of fun cooling down in the water.

The alligator sprayed water out of it's mouth.

Picture Time

These are John's 5 year-old pictures.