Owen's Walker

We bought Owen a walking toy and he has taken to it really quickly and seems to enjoy it!

Owen's First Halloween

We kept it simple and cheap for Owen's first Halloween. He was a Vikings football player!

Owen Crawling!

Big news around here! Owen is now crawling. This video is one of the first times he crawled. I had to entice him with his Puffs snacks, but whatever works! He has already gotten much better and it hasn't even been a week!

Too Fast

My baby boy is growing up so fast. Here are some recent pictures of Owen Tyler...

Loves being outside

Trying to crawl

Dapper young man

Driving (with his leaf!)

Again...driving

Loves to eat! Here he is enjoying cottage cheese

Sticking out his tongue...silly Owen!

Baby Girl

Here are some pictures of our beautiful baby girl. Do you think she will look like Owen?

 

Her face

 

Her heartbeat

Her profile

It's a........GIRL!!!!!

We are having a happy, healthy baby GIRL!!
Ultrasound went well and everything checked out!
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!

Peterson Family Pictures

We got our family pictures taken while my brother, Cole, was back from Texas for the weekend. They turned out really well!

 

 

Girls' Weekend!

Myself and five of my close friends went to Minneapolis for a girls' weekend at the end of September. It was a great time! We hardly talked (haha!), the weather was perfect, and, despite the great time, we were all excited to get back to our families by the end of the weekend. We left early Friday morning and drove straight to an outlet mall located about 45 minutes northwest of Minneapolis. We spent more time than we had anticipated there but we got great deals and had a fabulous time shopping! We ended up eating supper near the outlet mall before heading back to the hotel. (I should mention that three of the six of us were pregnant so meal planning was important! Hungry pregnant ladies aren't very pleasant and I'm mostly referring to myself!) Saturday morning included great conversation over the free breakfast at the hotel before heading to a park in a suburb of Minneapolis. We (mostly Allison) had done some research and found some rentals at a local park that we knew would be fun and we would be guaranteed to leave with a story! We rented a four-person bicycle-type thing called a surrey and a two-person low-riding contraption called a deuce coupe. (See pictures below for visuals!) They were a lot more fun than I had anticipated but they required much more of a workout than I had planned for also! Fun, funny time for sure! We got pedicures after a delicious lunch at a cute bistro, and then headed to a fancy (for us) restaurant where we had reservations. The food was delicious and the company was comfortable. I'm pretty sure we could have spent all night at the restaurant talking! We woke up early Sunday morning to get packed up before we headed to church. The church service was thought provoking and challenging! It was a great weekend! But with as much fun as we had, we were all excited to get home Sunday afternoon! (I think our husbands were thankful to have us back too! Thanks boys for the weekend away!)

The surrey

The deuce coupe

(Back to front, left to right)
Allison, Sarah, Jamie, Rachel, Tara and Me

All dressy before our night out at the fancy restaurant