The Living Planet Aquarium

This year for Cortlynn's birthday she decided she wanted to go to the aquarium and see all of the fish. We had such a good time together, she could have stayed there all day if we would have let her. Kyson had a fun time as well he really liked to look at the penguins diving and swimming.

Kyson playing with his toes. (He sure loves his toes!)
Cortlynn with her new penguin.
The pretty princess!
My chubby boy!

Playing in the coral.


Daddy and Kyson ( daddy didn't want his picture taken.)



Measuring up to the penguins.


Sitting in the boat.

One way cool fish!

The ugly Octopus.


Funny faces.

Catching Up

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted. Things at our house have been extremely busy since we tore our kitchen apart and have been living without one for about 5 weeks now! (No, I do not recommend it!) Hopefully we will only be kitchen less for 3 more weeks or so and then we can actually cook again! Yeah! ( I never thought I would actually be excited to cook again!) So here is a little update on the kids.


Kyson is getting bigger and bigger each day! He is six and a half months old and can now sit up by himself and rarely falls down anymore. He has also discovered his walker. I put him in it for the first time yesterday and within 10 minutes he figured out that he could push himself backwards. He thought that was the neatest thing and traveled across the family room within 5 minutes. I absolutely love this little boy he is so sweet even though he has turned into a major mammas boy and freaks out if i turn around and he can't see me!




Cortlynn is as busy as ever! She absolutely loves her big brother and doing anything and everything she possibly can. She currently wants to grow up to be a ballerina and loves going to play with her new friend Hallie. She also can't wait to go to preschool in the fall, she asks me all the time if she gets to go to school yet. I love this little girl, even when she drives me crazy because were so much alike!

Tunnel Fun and Cowboy Cortlynn

This year we have started to have a play date with Cortlynn's cousins once a week. When we held it at our house we decided to pull out the tunnels. As you can see Cortlynn's favorite thing to do is hide in them and then pop out!



Cortlynn also got a pink stick horse and a cowboy hat for Christmas! She loves to ride around and be a cowboy. Now she keeps asking me where her rope is because you can't be a cowboy without a rope. At least that's what I've been told.

Getting too big!

Kyson is starting to get so big now! I am excited for all of the new stages but I am sad to see the newborn stage go. He is now big enough to play in his johnny jump up. He mostly just sat and drooled on the floor but luckily he mopped it up with his socks!


He is also able to hold up his head when he is on his stomach really well. Most of the time he is pretty happy at the same time.

Kyson's Blessing Day

Yesterday we blessed Kyson at our church. Everything went great. Scott did such a good job even though he was extremely nervous. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful and loving husband who is able to bless our son in the church. I am grateful our kids are growing up with such a loving dad who is a great example to them.

I also wanted to say thanks to everyone who came and supported us and brought food so we could "celebrate Kyson" as Cortlynn put it. We are truly lucky to have such great family support that surrounds us all of the time!

Cortlynn was so excited to be able to wear her new blue dress to church and be with her whole family.
Cortlynn and Kyson ready to go to church! ( I loved the hat but Scott wouldn't let him wear it. As you can see I did get a picture though)

My handsome boy all ready for his big day as you can see he was thrilled to be there.


He did get happier as the morning went on though!


My cute family!


Four generations on the Peterson side. Kyson is so lucky to be able to get to know both his grand parents and great grand parents.



Four generations on the Roach side.



Is this day over yet? I'm so tired of pictures mom!

Long Over due

So I know this post is long overdue, but oh well! Life has been incredibly busy since Kyson was born. We had a great Christmas this year, both kids got a ton of toys I don't know what they are going to do with them all. I did take a bunch of pictures but to be honest I am too lazy to download them all. I did post a few updated pictures of Cortlynn and Kyson. This year Cortlynn got her own cookie sheet and cookie cutters from her Grandma Hatfield and we decided to try them out.

Cortlynn had so much fun mixing the dough and cutting out cookies.


Kyson enjoyed sitting in his seat and playing with the toys hanging from it.

Even though the cookies did not taste good at all. Daddy was a good sport and waited until Cortlynn left the room before throwing the cookies in the trash. Way too much flour and mixing but she had fun! That is the important thing.

We also blessed Kyson yesterday, it turned out to be a great day even though I am still exhausted from trying to prepare for it. I will post pictures later today after kids are in bed!