Happiness

Yay for 70 degree weather in November. I <3 California.

Nicknames

A nickname is sometimes considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance-Wikipedia

When it comes to nicknames my family trumps all other families. Meaning, we have tons of nicknames for each and every family member including our pets. We have some of the more traditional nicknames; for example my name, Ami: Amers, Amers Lambers, amskis, ame. But we like to go with more of the bizarre, 'where did that come from?' nicknames. So now I present you with "Nicknames", a compilation of my family's bizarre thought processes.

Cats

Garfield: Garsies, Papa Fur, Po, De Pope (which my Mom put the kibosh on quite quickly, not wanting to insult her Catholic friends), Mr. Gee (this is the newest name given to him by Jenna and Hailey), SuPurr (or Sir Purr), Garsagoonie, Garfunkel.
Pumpkin (no longer with us): Shinzin Smide, Mama Kitty.
Jack: Jackie, Jack-O-Baby, Jackie-Roo, Jackie-Meow, Jackamo, Giacomo.
Toby: Little Fellow.

People

Mom: Mamatu, Pooh (no idea), Marmie, Ade.
Dad: Daddykins, Du, Stanley, Jor Jor Binks.
Crystal: Shwy, Crittle, Crystaleys, Rasputin.
Lauren: Weeno, Warlen, Laur-Laur, Lorenzo, Josephine, Owen.
Kyra: Bubba Do, K-Rock, Kiki.
Jenna: Jennies, Jotinga, Little J, Jota, Little Ho, Jen Jenny Ben Ben.
Hailey: Hay-Hay, Baby, Hales, Helley, Bays, Baysoos.
Matt: Mateus, Matticus, Broter, Studmuffin.

So I don't know if we are normal or just plain strange.......we rarely call each other by our given names. I'm gonna have to declare Garfield the winner of nicknames and say he is the most loved of all the Peterson's haha.

Are any other families out there just as abnormal as us?

Pobracito

Poor Matt has been SO tired lately. He gets up at 6am every morning and doesn't get home until 7pm so you can imagine how exhausted he is by Friday night. Well today he got up at 7:30am to go play football for 2 hours and then went on a 'Man Date' with some friends while the girls had the baby shower. So we stayed at our friends house to watch the football game and the girls were talking in the kitchen when all of sudden Lindsey says, "I think Matt is asleep". So I look over and sure enough there he is passed out in the arm chair. I could not resist taking this picture. It just goes to show that he was way beyond tired to be able to fall asleep during a BYU football game! Don't worry I got his permission to post this on the world wide web!

So this cute elderly man (who lives at the nursing home where I work) loves to look at the pictures in magazines. It takes him about 3 months to read one magazine so they are always lying around the nurses station. Anyways, I was looking at his National Geographic and found this flashback picture and story! Too precious not to share.

SITTING KITTY
A patient little cat endures lessons in baboonery. According to notes accompanying the photograph—which arrived at the Geographic in 1956 but was never published by the magazine—"Baboon mother tries to make Fluffy sit up like a good monkey baby. But the kitten always falls back on her four legs. It seems like such a hopeless case." The baboon, named Helen, was an attraction at Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, a roadside zoo funded in 1929 in Silver Springs, Florida. She may have been a holdover from the days when Tarzan movies were filmed in the region and Allen provided animal actors for visiting Hollywood productions.
—Margaret G. Zackowitz

Shwy

Happy 22nd B-day to my little sista Shwy aka Crystal. I have called her shwy since we were little....have NO idea where it came from but it fits. She loves to take pictures of herself! I had to choose just a few out of hundreds that were on her facebook page! She is a gorgeous and a very talented girl. As you can see by her pictures, she never has the same hair color for more than a week! She loves animals and works in a boarding home for dogs. She is great at her job. Happy B-day Shwy.

Food, Movies and Cats

So for Halloween we went over to the Broadbent's and ate delicious foods and watched a very scary movie. We ate homemade egg rolls, kettle corn, little smokies, caramel apples and more. We watched, "The Watcher In The Woods". So spooky. If you haven't seen it, you should! It's a Disney, need I say more?

Narek.........(you have to see the movie to get it).

Thursday night after we had gotten into bed, Matt asked me to get up and get him an advil. I was not happy but I got up and went out to the front room. On the table stood a chocolate cat from Godiva! I had seen it a week before and said I wanted it cause it was so adorable. Matt is so sweet. I haven't eaten the cat yet, I just can't bring myself to do so. It's too dang cute.

Halloween Trips

Last weekend Matt and I drove to Boston and met up with some friends. We walked the Freedom Trail and then headed up to Salem for the Halloween festivities. My pics are a little out of order but I don't feel like fixing them.

Matt bought this $7 book that you can follow as you walk the Freedom Trail. He liked to pretend he was our tour guide.
Stokes, Johnsons, Jensons and us in Salem:) Courtesy of Lindsey's camera.

They had a Rita's in Salem! I was SOOO happy as you can tell by the picture!

I saw this clown and had to take this picture for my Sis Lauren. She loves the clown from "IT".

Boston

This radio station in Boston was having a costume contest for dogs! I loved this one the best.

Beginning of Freedom Trail.

Cemetery where Paul Revere's grave stone is.

Matt outside the Boston Hyatt.

Because they love Matt so much, they gave us a mini suite. Oh and they had a mini bar in the room and I woke up with major hunger pains and had to buy a $3.75 kit kat bar. Matt took out three different candy bars for me to choose from and THEN realized each time you take something out it registers at the front desk. So we spent $11.25 on a kit kat, snickers and oreos. Lesson learned.

View from the hotel room.