Some of My Favorite Things

Life has been a little crazy and exhausting lately so I have been indulging in some new favorite things. Over the last month I have come across some awesome products. I will now share.

1. Netflix-The Stokes introduced us to the awesomeness of Netflix. You get one DVD in the mail at a time and you can also watch unlimited movies online. Yes I have heard of Netflix before and yes I do receive daily pop up ads for it, but I never experienced its greatness until that fateful Friday night at the Stokes. We have watched way too many movies already. I think I could start my own movie critic blog. Here is my first critique: 'In the Land of Women' worst movie EVER.

2. RGB Cable-This wonderful cable hooks our computer up to our brand new 32 inch TV so we are able to use the TV as a monitor. We can also watch our online movies on the TV. I love technology!

3. Skype-So my uncle has been bugging me to get Skype for a long time but I never felt the need to. Well it's awesome! We bought a web-cam and are able to see and talk to most of our family over the Internet for free! It's a must have. I talk to my sister every night and mainly just fool around watching video clips and gossiping.....in a good way:)

4. Mint Chocolate M&M's-To die for. Seriously. The other night I wanted chocolate anything so I bought this bag of M&M's. It was the only thing at the checkout and it was on sale. They are regular chocolate M&M's but twice the size and minty-delicious.

Ok well I'm going to go Skype, watch Netflix and eat my M&M's.

A Week of Fun

Our week of fun started with a trip out with my girlz to see 'Twilight'. No Matt did not see it and he says he never will. I have other plans.......Any who, I LOVED it. I thought it stuck very closely to the book and the actors were awesome. I am going to see it again at Christmas time with my sisters and Marmie.
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The next day we headed out to Cali via Virgin America which is an awesome airline. We landed around 11am and when we emerged from the LAX airport we were greeted with 70 degree weather. I was already at home. We saw Matt's bro Mike and fam and then drove to Ridgecrest where we had a delicious prime rib dinner at The Lodge. Matt used to be the manager of The Lodge.
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Sunday night we drove to the OC and stayed at the Hyatt courtesy of Matt and his awesome benefits. I got to see my old roomie, Julie. It was SO good to see her and her hubs, Asi. Monday we did the Disneyland thing all day. It was so much fun. Then we drove back to Ridgecrest, stopping to see Matt's grandma on the way.
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Tuesday we went shooting in the back country! Wed. we woke up stinking early and headed out to tour the rugged landscape and take engagement pics for Matt's sister Amy and her fiance Tim. We had a lot of fun hiking the falls and meeting Potlicker, the infamous dog of Ballarat, CA.
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Thursday of course was Thanksgiving, which was delicious and full of family and fun. Friday we went shopping, didn't buy anything but had to go anyways!! Then we took the red eye back to JFK and got in around 6am.
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Desert Rain


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All of you LOST fans out there will appreciate this. Michael from Lost was on our flight back and I totally stood behind him when we boarded! I was too afraid to talk to him or take a pic. Didn't want to seem like a creepy 'regular' person. But I finally saw my celebrity! Oh and Matt felt a little uneasy having him on our flight. I mean he obviously has bad karma because of Lost. Now that I think about it the turbulence was hideous. No kidding 10 minutes of hard core shaking and bumpiness. I pretty much started to cry and promised that I would never complain or be horrible again! That lasted about 2 minutes!
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We miss CA and can't wait to go back. XOXO.

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.