Birds, bees and pigs at the Peterson farm

          First off we said goodbye to the good ol minivan last week. The kids were so very sad and were actually pretty bummed. It has been a great van with so little problems and so reliable it's whole life, but was on it's last leg.  We were looking at Burvans and realized they were way too expensive and our car payment would be crazy high. So we were going to save for a few months and use our tax returns to put down and then Joel had a brilliant idea. We sell the truck (which we only use to get firewood, pulling the camper and yard work/get hay bales) which is paid off and use that money for the Suburban which is 4 wheel drive ad can tow, and a trailer! He is so smart. So he posted the truck on KSL for a couple thousand over blue book (because that is what they were all posted for) and had it sold the next day! So we went and checked out the Suburban we had been watching. It was a 2010 with black leather interior with super low miles. It was owned by an older couple with no kids so I don't think the back had ever been sat in. No DVD player but we are getting one put in next month. I LOVE LOVE that we have tons of space, and can go places like Oregon, and Lake Havasu now and we get the same gas mileage as the van! The next day Joel had a cute little old trailer picked out that was a tandem axel for the big wood load and 10 feet long. We have already used the trailer many times in the yard!
           Maizy had her 5th grade Olympics. They were so fun to watch. It is a really big deal that they practice for a long time. Her team color was blue so we were very focused on blue around our house for the last couple of weeks.

          We also got two adorable, and I mean ADORABLE pigs! They are brother and sister. The small one is a boy named Bronker and the girl is named Petunia. Bronker is sweet and friendly and Petunia is high strung and protective. We got bees yesterday and since Joel was at work I had to hive two swarms by myself. The Godfrey's came over to watch and it was actually pretty fun. I only got stung twice which were totally my fault. I didn't have on long sleeves and I had bees all over me. I didn't know there was one under my arm so when I put my arm down I squished it. Then one went up my pant leg and it was around behind my knee and I for some reason swatted at it and of course squishing them makes them sting!
          The kids are finally getting to use their Christmas present! Weather is getting nice and the kids are loving their new playset! For General Conference Maizy wanted us to make President Monson's mother's recipe for ribbon cake. It is so dang good and Miles thought it was too! Here he is
with about a 6th of the cake. Joel and I kept watching him go over and cut huge pieces, then when there was that much left he just picked it up and started chowin' on it. He makes me so happy!(even if he did yell at me to "SHUT UP!" today during the closing song in sacrament meeting because he didn't want me to sing.) He also decided to use my shampoo and make himself a very full, very bubbly, bubble bath!
           This picuture of Thomas is just because it is probably the only one like this that I will ever get. Since he was born he can't sleep unless he is in his crib or bed or car seat. So I don't have any sweet pictures of him sleeping. He was cold so I wrapped him up and he fell asleep. I was excited to take lots of pictures of him.