More Cupcakes!

I promise that Sarah and I are not getting fat. We try to give as many of these cupcakes away, I swear. Anywho, Sarah made some awesome cupcakes for a baby shower this week. Thought you would like to see them!

New York!

Sorry, it's been a while. I have been super busy with school, but we finally have some time to catch up on things. These pictures are from our trip to New York over Inauguration weekend. We had an awesome time! Here's a picture of me and Sarah on our way to see "Mary Poppins."
Here's Sarah at her happy place: Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue.
The Statue of Liberty was really cool, and not quite as cold as you might think. We also went to Ellis Island.
New York is an awesome city. We loved all the bagels, pastrami sandwiches, black and white cookies, and fried chicken.
Of course, no Peterson family vacation would be complete without cupcakes. We stopped by the Magnolia Bakery near Rockefeller Center, and had some awesome Inauguration cupcakes, but I refused to eat the Obama one. All in all, it was a pretty awesome trip!

Christmas with the Petersons!

For our grand sendoff from Washington, DC, Sarah made us some more cupcakes. This time she did red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and they were pretty awesome. I was sad we had to give most of them away.















This is Christmas at the Petersons in Arizona, before all the children arrived. It all looks so calm and serene.















Here is my Mom's famous tower of treats. It had every type of Christmas treat known to man, and I managed to sample them all... daily.




















Here Sarah marveling at all the gifts that Santa brought. I think she was just surprised that Santa chose to give her anything at all.




















And last of all, this is our nephew, Sam. He's the biggest 3-month-old baby we've ever seen, but he's still pretty cool. Sarah and I had a fantastic Christmas.

Christmas Time is Here! (sung to the tune of the Charlie Brown special)

Here we are gearing up for our Christmas card photo. You'll have to take our word that it's really cold, even though it looks like a balmy 80 degrees in this picture. We also went to the recently re-opened Muesuem of American History, which was pretty cool.

Here's Sarah. I made her pose in her Christmas dress in front of our tree that's barely taller than us. Also, we have some awesome stockings that Sarah's mom made for us.


These are the gingerbread men that Sarah made. I got to decorate quite a few of them, so I tried to get creative. See if you can find Batman, a football player, a stick figure, and a dude in his underpants.

We also went to see the temple lights on Sunday. Here's a picture of Sarah and her mom. Christmas is great, and we are so excited to go to Arizona this year. Yay!

Picture Time!

So it's been a while since I have posted anything on the blog, mostly because of law school finals (which I should be studying for right now). But I figured we should add some pictures of the exciting non-law-school-final events of the recent weeks. First off, our table finally came, so now we have a place to eat! We were so excited that we took a picture with the box. As you'll notice, we're winners, because the box told us so.

Some folks in Sarah's family's ward started a tradition of having a pie party on Thanksgiving morning, where everyone brings a pie. Anyone who knows me knows that my priorities in life are as follows: (1) Sarah, (2) Pie, (3) Everything Else, so this was a pretty exciting event for me.

For Thanksgiving dinner at the Brutons, I was responsible for the Peterson family stuffing, and Sarah was responsible for the rolls. The rolls rocked, and Sarah did a great job, and I was so excited about my stuffing that I took a picture of it. Even my picky brother-in-law ate some, and he only likes rice!


Sarah got involved in a Gingerbread House competition at work, so we tried to think outside the box and stretch the bounds of the traditional gingerbread house to new heights. We came up with a gingerbread Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, which was pretty dang awesome. Sarah made the gingerbread from scratch (I helped by eating some), and then we cut out the pieces of gingerbread according to a complex posterboard model we built beforehand (I say complex because I even had to use a protractor). Also, we made that awesome snowman out of fondant frosting, and everything came out great.

Here's the more or less completed project, complete with reflecting pool! So those have been the highlights of the last few weeks. The rest of the time I have spent secluded in the bedroom pouring over unilateral agreements and forum non conveniens while Sarah watched Law & Order reruns all by her lonesome. Only two finals to go, and then I'm free!

The Long Wait is Over

After so many months of waiting, Sarah and I finally got to go see Quantum of Solace over the weekend, and it rocked. I figured I couldn't let such a momentous event pass by without making mention of it on the blog. The movie was great. I will admit that it may not be as good as Casino Royale (Daniel Craig's first outing as 007), but this movie was a respectable entry into the canon of Bond films.

The action sequences were amazing, although they do seem to follow the same shaky-camera method made popular in the last few Bourne movies. The plot was pretty good, but it basically just serves as a vehicle for getting Bond from one continent to the next so that he can kill more bad guys. But between the car chase, boat chase, and airplane chase, you fail to notice the parts of the plot that don't really add up.

All in all, the movie was everything I could have hoped for, and sets a precedent for amazing Bond films yet to come. Hooray!

An Ode to Georgetown Cupcake

Second only to my wife's amazing cupcakes, Georgetown Cupcake makes a pretty good snack. Whenever we are in Georgetown, we can't help but stop in.

It was nice to know that although our political differences may tear us apart, Georgetown Cupcake is there to bring us together again... with special election cupcakes!

Here's Sarah's Donkey cupcake. I can only presume that it tasted like hope.

Here's me and my elephant cupcake. It tasted like delicious, crushing defeat. Thanks, Georgetown Cupcake!