Peterson POSROIT #85

The girls with Cosmo, the Cougar mascot

A rainbow from our backyard. Yes, that means
we actually got some rain. A little.

Put your lips together and blow:

Contrary to Mom's concern that her girls didn't learn anything in swimming lessons this summer, both Amy and Kara were blowing bubbles in their bath water.

Joy had a bad enough cold last week that he stayed home from work for two days.

After being so successful at her two previous sewing projects, Brenda has become a little obsessed. She bought fabric and patterns for a shirt and jacket for herself and dresses for the girls for Christmas (Shh! Don't tell them!).

QOSROIT: Any big plans for the Labor Day weekend?

Interesting articles:

-Boy Charged For Meowing At Neighbor Lady

-A peculiar funeral tradition

-An unusual practical joke

-Mountain West Conference college sports fans are up in arms about recent changes in rights to broadcast games. A new channel, the Mountain, has exclusive rights to some games, and it is currrently only carried by Comcast cable. This poses a problem for satellite TV subscribers (like us). One fan runs call centers, one of which is located in the Philippines. Here is his attempt to get Dish Network to carry the Mountain (which, sadly, he abbreviates MNT).


Love,
The Petersons

Peterson POSROIT #84

Amy's Super Soccer Kick

We took the girls to the Cougar Kickoff
again this year, and they got to play
with the BYU Women's Soccer team for a while.

Aloha:

Amy learned about Noah and the ark in Primary on Sunday. She told us that Noah obeyed Heavenly Father by building a boat to protect people from the waves.

We had a luau for our church activity on Saturday, and Kara loved the Polynesian dancers who were there to entertain us. So much so, in fact, that she was dancing along.

Joy and Brenda had quite an adventure last night. We opened the back door to let the cats out, and a dragonfly invaded the kitchen. It claimed a place on the ceiling to rest, and we had to use a broom to try to bat it back out the door. We found our baseball skills to be sadly lacking. Of course, baseballs don't usually fly around erractically near blinding light bulbs above the batter's head. The cats, of course, were no help.

Interesting articles:

Gotta wonder about some people.

QOSROIT: Have you been bitten by anything this summer?

Love,
The Petersons

Peterson POSROIT #83

Kara climbed up on the table all by herself

Amy in her parade costume

Cat people:

Kara is very good at saying "amen" after prayers. In fact, in church on Sunday, she said it as loud as she could after both sacrament prayers.

Amy found another kitty wandering around the neighborhood. It doesn't have a collar, so we don't know if it belongs to someone, but it looks just like Taz. Mom's jaw dropped to the floor when she thought she saw Amy holding Taz.

Brenda completed two sewing projects in one day: shorts for Amy's Halloween costume and a hooded towel for Kara's birthday. Oh, and her duet went well, with a lot of help from the Lord.

Joy had to have the catalytic converter in his new car replaced. It affected our checking account in an unpleasant way.

QOSROIT: Are you a cat person or a dog person? Or perhaps a snake person?

Interesting articles:

We're adding an exciting new feature to our blog! From now on we'll post links that we've found interesting throughout the past week: news (geek and otherwise), tips, products, etc. Basically anything and everything that appeals to us. You can read them or not. You can comment on them or not. They are here for your entertainment. So, here we go:

Little League Team Refuses to Play On Sunday

Peterson POSROIT #82

Amy with her Primary class in their parade activity

Kara helping Daddy open birthday presents

Watch out for that tree!:

Amy asked Mom, "Can we get a new car?" Mom told her that we can when the one we have stops working or gets broken and can't be fixed. Amy's response: "Like if a tree falls on it?" (Refer to these pictures of our recent storm. The best ones are in the photo gallery.)

Kara has a new word for root beer. Whenever she sees the bottle, she exclaims, "weird!"

Brenda is approaching D-day: she is playing in a piano-organ duet on Sunday. Ack!

Joy installed a keyless entry system on his car all by himself.

QOSROIT: What is the best/worst/funniest/scariest experience you've ever had with a tree?

Love,
The Petersons

Peterson POSROIT #81

This week we have a very special tribute to Dad:


Happy birthday, Dad

Way over the hill:

Joy turned 31 this week. His family came for a visit, and we enjoyed spending some time with them. We also had a little party, which, of course, included cheesecake.

Brenda substituted for an absent choir pianist for the last two weeks. Fortunately for everyone involved, we're just starting to learn two new songs, so most of the time all she had to play was one or two parts at a time. She learned that her sight-reading skills need some work.

Amy learned a new skill this weekend: Frisbee. She has trouble remembering which direction to twist her body and which hand to hold the frisbee with, but when she gets it right, her throw is pretty good.

Kara has started insisting that she have milk on her breakfast cereal. At first, Dad tried just a little, so she wouldn't make too big a mess, but apparently that wasn't sufficient. Her cereal has to be swimming, just like her sister's.

QOSROIT: How tall are you?

Love,
The Petersons