Snow and More Snow

This has been one long winter- with lots of SNOW!

Lexi is in the middle of the "tunnel" to our front door.

The banks down the road are higher than they have

been for years. Some people in our ward have shoveled

their roofs two times with winter. A family in Island Park

measures the snow on their deck after each snow storm then
shovels off the deck. Last week their snow had measured
a total of 16 feet just thru February!! Where is SPRING?

Our Winter Bunny Visitor

This little bunny can often be seen in our yard nibbling on our shrubs...

Last week while Brad was on the computer he turned around to find

the bunny in our window sill. You can barely see the snow that has piled

up from sliding off our metal roof. That is at a 5' level, convenient for the

bunny to access our window sill. He appeared to look at us as we took

his picture but continued to stay there for some time.

Mason's Blessing

Laura and Allen were able to come for the blessings with
with their family, Alyssa, Mitch, and Lexi.

Such a cute family picture- and family of five.

It's the Peterson Fab Five now!

Dad, Mom and Mason. Blessed on January 9th, 2011
at their home on South Canyon Rd. in Payson, Utah.

Isn't this the cutest picture! Mason is even smiling!!

Christmas with Dad's Siblings

It has been such a long time since all of dad's sisters and brothers have gotten together. Alice decided to host a dinner at her house and everyone attended. Lots of fun conversation was had and before we knew it we had talked late into the evening. It was great to get together! We also decided to start a Gomer Williams Family Reunion this coming year, August 2011. We use to enjoy the Noah Williams Reunion a number of years ago when our children were young. We have many great memories of those reunions with Friday night campouts at Pole Bridge with 125 people camping. Saturdays were fun activities for the kids and pot luck lunch followed by a genealogy meeting. The reunions always ended with a huge water fight.

To Shoot or Not To Shoot

The only way Brad would shoot is with his camera. And he got a good one! :)

While we were down with Candace, Beau, and the boys, Brad stayed home.

On Thanksgiving Day he had a couple of dinner invitations but elected to stay home alone.

When he saw this Buck walk up the lane by our living room window, he was so exceited.

He ran to get his camera and shot the picture through our front window. It looks like the

deer is digging for crab apples in our front yard. It made his day!!! :)

Baby Mason is Here

Mom and Dad with new baby Mason. (5 days old)
Mason Hugh Peterson was born November 22nd.
Weighed in at 7lb.3oz. and was 20 inches long.

This was the best I could do for a family picture. It is sure hard to

get a 3 and 4 year old to cooperate. They were usually pulling faces!
I will leave the picture taking to Annie and Christie!

Grandpa and "the boys"! Gavin being the "big brother". So cute!!

He already gets comfort from his swing.

First spong bath- not too happy!

Mommy and Mason (4 days)

Lexi's 4th Birthay

Laura took the day off from work to celebrate Lexi's birthday. She took Lexi and her cousin Kayden to McDonald's, of course, for lunch. Grandma Singleton and Williams also came along.
Lexi is growning up way to fast! That evening we went to Lexi's house for cake and ice cream.
Our present to Lexi was a Cinderella princess dress with a crown. She looked beautiful and very happy!! :) These grandchildren really bring a lot of happiness into our lives....

Spud Break

I think it was October when Laura, Lexi, and I went down to visit Candace and her family.
On Sunday evening we went to this pond outside of Payson to feed the ducks. We may have
gone too late in the day because the ducks weren't as hungry as usual. But they were fun!
The kids had a ball and they were all fun to watch. We drove around the pond and when we stopped and got out with our bread a huge group of ducks headed toward us from the other side of the pond. Alyssa stayed home because she was working in the spuds - making big bucks!
It's tuff being a teenager and having so many "wants". This was Alyssa's first time working in the spuds and we are proud of her for enduring. It is hard work- long days and dirty work.
We missed you on our "get away" Alyssa.

Oregon Trip/ Day 1

Here we are at the Oregon boarder- Ontario visitors center.
They were very helpful and had lots of free brochures to help
us with our travels. They told us not to miss the gorge or the
senic drive - especially Vista House and Crown Point. Thanks
ladies for making our trip so memoribal!!

This was were we stopped the first night-Pendleton Oregon

This was some scenery between Ontario and Pendleton.

Lots of mountain pass along the Lewis & Clark Trail.

One of the historic markers said it took them 5 days

just to climb out that one valley. I wouldn't have made

a very good pioneer!

Columbia River Gorge

This was such a beautiful drive with so much to see.
When we started off this morning we ran into rain, but
by the time we got to the gorge it had stopped. Everything
was so green and smelled terrific! Taking this side trip
probably added several hours to our trip but we weren't
pressured by time and I totoally loved it!

Inside the building, we found these muscians. I talked to

the lady on the right. She said the instruments originated

back east in the Appalachian Mountains. They sound a lot like a

steel guitar. I loved their old tunes like "Red River Valley".

Looking east and west down the Colombia Gorge from

Crown Point.

Fort Clatsop/Lewis & Clark

This was an interesting and fun stop. It was a beautiful area and unexpected
stop. They had a really nice Vistitor's Center with educational videos
exhibits and gift shop. Outside you walked down well cared for pathways
to explore everything. We walked down to the waters edge at the
Columbia River. The fort got its name from the area Clatsop Indians.
They had a terrific statue of Lewis and Clark inside the visitors center
with Sacagawea, her baby, and Black, the lab. Great history!

Astoria, OR

These are the few pictures we took at Astoria, Oregon. It is a quaint
little town with wooden clap board houses located on a hill. We stopped
acouple of times just to watch the ships and local boats. The pilot boat
came out to the ship below to help him get to the dock. They threw a
rope ladder down for him to climb up. If you can see, he is about half
way up the rope ladder at this point. The large bridge you can see in the
background on these pictures goes overt he Columbia River Gorge into
Washington State. Brad was glad we were not taking him over this bridge.
Uncle Gail had worked in Astoria many years ago on a project and told us to
make sure we went to "The Ship Inn". It was a small resturant right at the
water's edge. It had a small dinning room with full length windows so you
could watch the boats and ships. We were also entertained by the seagulls.
Oh yeah, and the fish dinner was GREAT! We almost walked out after
looking at the menu - we didn't think there was anything Brad would eat.
As we turned to walk out, an older couple was coming in. She looked at us
and said, "your not leaving without eating are you"? They told us not to
leave because their food was the best! Brad decided on a sandwich and dad
and I got fish dinners. Today was Father's Day and we had a great day!

Seaside/ muscle car show

These are only a few of the pictures Brad took of the car show.
As we checked into the condo, they asked if we were there for
the "big car show"? As luck would have it, this weekend was
Seaside's BIG MUSCLE CAR SHOW. How LUCKY for Brad!
He was one happy dude! :) I posted these pictures so you could
see a little of Broadway and the shopping available. Brad found
the Nascar store and went wild! He came away with a Seaside
hoodie, 2 Dale Ernhart t-shirts and a Ernhard hat.