I think I can hear angels singing...

Real quick...just a minute ago we were getting ready to go to a birthday party. Jacob says, "Mom, I really like listening and doing what I'm told." I said, "why is that?" "Well because you don't yell at me as much and I get more privileges and I can choose to do more stuff." Hello!!! Can I just say that hearing him say that was music to my ears. Hopefully his new philosophy on life will last!

By the way, I didn't shower today until 3 pm!

Just a quick note...

I'm online and I thought I would just share that it is 1:04 pm and I have not showered yet. Do you know how happy this makes me? This used to be a common occasion but has not happened in a long time, I love it!

Silent Auction

Last night the youth and scouts of the ward put on a silent auction/spaghetti dinner. We had so much fun! One of the silent auction items was: 4 Dallas Mavericks (basketball for those of you who don't know who the Mavs are), 1 platinum parking pass, and dinner for 4 at the Platinum Club. The value of the package is $800!!! Kevin decided that we wanted them. The problem was that he had bid on a lot of other items. Luckily he began to be outbid and all was well. The bid on the Mav tickets kept increasing. So my friend Robin Edward came over to me and said we want the tickets too, there are 4 so lets bid higher and we'll split the cost. OK! After being outbid a few times we won the tickets with a bid of $130, which is only $65 dollars for us. We are so excited, it should be a fun date night with the Edward's. I don't think I could go to a real auction. Just waiting by the auction sheet to see if we would win, ready with pencil in hand to up our bid if anyone dared (he he he) to outbid us, it was all very exciting! Anyway, to the people of the ward who put this all together you guys did a great job!

P.S. Thanks Wendy and Hilary we too are now addicted to Webkinz, we love it!

Peterson Happenings

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Green

You're green, the color of growth and vigor. Good-hearted and giving, you have a knack for finding and bringing out the best in people. Green is the most down-to-earth color in the spectrum — reliable and trustworthy. People know they can count on you to be around in times of need, since your concern for people is genuine and sincere. You take pride in being a good friend. For you, success is measured in terms of personal achievement and growth, not by status or position. Rare as emeralds, greens are wonderful, natural people. It truly is your color!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=colorogt&c=50652

What's new this week?

Jacob has his first loose tooth, well actually 2 now. I was beginning to wonder if he was ever going to loose a tooth. I told him to keep playing with them so they will fall out. The two that are loose are his bottom middle ones. If they both fall out at the same time it will be funny to listen to him talk. I just pray that he has Kev's teeth and not mine. I had braces and all kinds of problems with my teeth.

I am staying busy this week at work. I am in charge of teacher appreciation at the school so I have been putting an order together of gifts for the teachers and staff. I have also been calling all around town asking for donations from restaurants and stores. I am putting on a Easter egg hunt for them in March and then teacher appreciation week is in May. Hopefully both events will be a success.

I am also, with my counselors, putting together a primary activity. We want to involve the parents too, it will be a big undertaking but I think it will be a great activity. It is gong to be themed after The Friend magazine. Can I just say how much I LOVE my calling. I may have said this before on my blog. I love the children and I love the people I get to serve with. We just had our Great To Be 8 celebration on Sunday and it was awesome. I did a lot of crying on Sunday. Some days are just like that. It all started when I walked into the nursery and Brother and Sister Fisher had all of the kids sitting reverently in the chairs listening to a lesson, I started to cry, they were all just so cute! Then I had to speak in sacrament. I started crying during the sacrament hymn and I pretty much did not stop until after my talk was done. That is pretty typical of me though.

Here in TX they have companies that are going around trying to get you to sign a oil and gas lease on your land. They offer a signing bonus of about $1000 up front. Luckily when they came around I had talked to some people before about it and I knew not to sign. I went to a community meeting last night with neighborhoods close to mine. We are all coming together to get a fair offer, much more then $1000. Well my purpose in telling you this is they asked for a representative from each street. Guess who is their street rep? Basically nobody else from my street would do it so it's me and Kev going door to door to inform everyone. The more we get the better deal we will have. There are about 4 or 5 other neighborhoods with ours. We went door to door this afternoon and met a few people. Can I just say there are a few homes on my street that stink when you go to the front door. I would hate to know what they smell like on the inside. We did enjoy meeting some of our neighbors though, and the weather was beautiful.

Is this considered my journal, sure why not?
I love what Hilary said her blog was to her somewhere between a journal and a scrapbook. I guess there is a website out there that will print and bind your blog together for you, what a great idea! I am not a good journal writer and I know I need to be, so I feel like this is a good starting point. Maybe I will have it printed and bound once a year and have a journal.

Blah, blah, blah, I think I have gone on long enough for the day. I hope everyone who reads this is doing well! I love you all!!!

No more painting for a long time!

All the painting I wanted to do is done. It only took a year to get everything painted they way we wanted it! Here is our bedroom. (Thanks mom for the amazing quilt and shower curtain!) Next thing on the list is to change all of the brass in our house to brushed nickel, we've done a few things but we still have a lot to do. I love having a house and getting to do whatever I want to it, we're having so much fun.

ABC Tag

Thanks Hil for the tag, here it goes...

A- Attached or single: Attached for eternity!

B- Best Friend(s): Kevin & all members of the Girls Camp "Click" (you know who you are!) and Jess too!

C-Cake or Pie: Cake with ice cream

D- Day of Choice: Any day Kevin is off of work and Sundays.

E- Essential Item: Cell phone and eye brow pencil.

F- Favorite Color: Yellow

G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Bears

H- Hometown: Redlands, CA

I- Indulgence(s): Ben and Jerry's Half Baked ice cream

J- January or July: Ahhh...that is hard, I'm going to go with July.

K-Kids: 2 - Jacob and Breanna

L-Life is incomplete without: my family and the Gospel

M- Marriage Date: July 10, 1999

N- Number of Siblings: 9 (Vinny, BJ, Serene, Kathleen, Toli, Natasha, Derrick, Ala, and Olya)

O- Oranges or Apples: Gala Apples

P- Phobias or Fears: Not being able to have more children.

Q- Quote(s): When life is too hard to stand, kneel.

R- Reason To Smile: My wonderful family!!!

S- Season: Fall, it is my favorite but summer is a close second.

T- Tag Six: Tara, Torrie, Wendy, Stacie, Mom, and Megan

U- Unknown Fact About Me: I used to bite my toenails when I was a child, ewwwww!

V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Oppressor of Animal!

W- Worst Habit: Picking my nose and eating it (JUST KIDDING!!!)

X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds (as long as it is not a vaginal one, those are not so fun)

Y- Your Favorite Food: Ice Cream

Z: Zodiac: Scorpio (November 16th)

Kids Say The Darndest Things

This morning on the way to school Jacob was explaining to me that the people he had drawn on his hand the day before were dying. This was because the pen mark was almost gone. He asked me for a pen, I didn't have one. I told him all I have is a mechanical pencil and it won't work, it won't show up on your hand. He begged and pleaded with me, like usual. I told him that the conversation was over and he said "I want a lawyer." A what??? I laughed so hard! He is always using big words in the wrong context but this time he kind of got it right. I told him that he can't have a lawyer and then he asked what do they do anyway. I told him that they defend people. Later that day I was telling his teacher about it and wondering where he came up with this. I guess yesterday in class they were talking about Abraham Lincoln and somewhere along the lines they talked about lawyers. I just thought that I would share our funny moment today. Jacob is always making us laugh!

I hate paying bills!

Ok I'm sitting here blogging rather then paying my bills. It's not even that I have to hand over most of our money to so many people it's that I hate the process of doing it. I used to be really good and I would have my checkbook balanced almost daily. Well then work happened and now I have a pile of 20+ receipts that I have really no desire to go through. I also have a stack of mail to go through. Well now that I have complained long enough I should quit complaining and be thankful that we have money to pay the bills, right?

Finally some kind of answer.

When I went to the doctor on Jan. 21st they took like 7 or 8 viles of blood. Last week I got a postcard from the doctor saying everything was fine, I thought that meant for all the tests. Well my doctor's nurse called me today to inform me that I have polycystic ovarian syndrome or disease (PCOS). This makes so much sense to me! I looked it up online and I have about 7 of the 15 symptoms. I really did not want anything to be wrong with me, but it is nice to finally have an answer to why I have so many problems "down there," (as my English friend calls it my nether region, sorry for the tmi :) Basically right now I just have to keep working on losing the extra baby weight and the extra weight from eating whatever I wanted for the last year. I go and see my doctor on June 23rd so hopefully by that time we can figure out exactly what we need to do to get pregnant again. Right now I'm not too much thinking about getting pregnant, that will do me no good. If it happens it happens. The fact that we ever got pregnant with Breanna is an absolute miracle with me having PCOS and with Kevin's brain tumor which effects his hormones. She definitly was and is a blessing in our lives.

My sister Serene wrote this for me...

After Breanna died Serene wrote this beautiful poem for me. She is so talented. Those of you who live here have read it but many of you never have so here it is. (You may want to get a tissue before you start.)

A Child Once Loved, Never Lost

Two bright eyes that never saw the light,
Full of hope for this journey on earth.
Two tiny hands not exposed to touch,
Not stained by life to portray their worth.

One would say what a loss there has been,
And it's true; a precious life we have lost.
But the child was too perfect for life here with us,
And for this her family paid the cost.

Her mother was the tool she needed,
To gain a body, fulfill the law.
Because of you she has succeeded,
To do the work our God foresaw.

The child's two eyes now view the heavens,
Searching and doing our God's great works.
Soon two hands will reach from two arms,
Welcoming you who provided her birth.

When finally together in heaven you'll be,
And to her sweet mother she'll softly say:
"Thank you for life and all of your love.
It's your love that helped me succeed up above.
To you I will never be lost."