Off We Go to the Land Down Under

Today's the big day. Sarah and I are headed to Australia after months (or in Sarah's case, years) of planning. And I'll be bringing back a pet koala for everyone. Look for yours in the mail in a few weeks!

Holiday Madness II: Christmas

Hello again. I told you this weekend was busy. Since Sarah and I are leaving for Australia on Friday, December 2nd, we figured we should get out our holiday decorations as quickly as possible so that we could enjoy them for a bit. This year Sarah decided to go full-on Martha Stewart by making sugar cookies that double as Christmas tree ornaments.


Frequent visitors to the blog may recognize these cookies as the same ones we have made in years past, so I suppose they have become somewhat of a holiday tradition. My favorite is the snow globe.


Sarah also made some sort of tinsel-type-thing to go around the tree, which looked pretty cool.


Our tree came out great this year. Hopefully it will still be alive when we come back from Australia on December 18th. I'll try to do a couple of posts while were in the land down under, but if not, I'll be sure to put up plenty of pictures when we get back.

Holiday Madness I: Thanksgiving

Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone. Sarah and I had a great holiday. Although it was really busy, we were glad to help out Sarah's mom in putting together the Thanksgiving meal. Our duties included the following:

Grandma Peterson's world-famous stuffing

Pumpkin pie with pecan-praline topping

Grandma Crapo's rolls

and sugar cookies

It all came together for a pretty tasty meal. After that, Sarah and I had a pretty good weekend, including a little Black Friday shopping and preparing for Christmas...

Hooray for the iPhone!

Sarah and I finally decided the time had come for us to get some smartphones, and decided on the iPhone 4S. After an incredibly harrowing ordeal, they finally arrived, and we've been enjoying them ever since. This is one of the first pictures I took on the new amazing camera. Perhaps it symbolizes the dawn of the new age in the Peterson household. An age where we can get our iPhone to talk to us and tell us jokes.

Visit from the Folks

Sorry I haven't been able to post for a while. It's been a pretty busy time for the Petersons. But a couple of weeks ago we had a great visit from my parents from Arizona. We had a lot fun together, including going on the Skyline Drive.


It's a nice drive through a stretch of the Shenandoah Valley, and right now is a prime time for looking at fall foliage, which my parents refer to as "leaf-peeping."


My parents were even in town for my birthday! It was great to have them here. Thanks for the visit!

Jack-o-Lanterns! UPDATED!

Hey all, I decided to make a few additions to my Halloween post, since before it was just a picture of our jack-o-lanterns.


Here's a better picture of the pumpkins.


We went to our church Halloween party, and had to throw some costumes together at the last minute. Sarah went as a quite convincing PanAm-era flight attendant.


I thought I was going as some cool detective like Humphrey Bogart from "The Maltese Falcon," but everyone just said I looked like Inspector Gadget. Maybe I just have a goofy face.

Woohoo!

I just found out I passed the Virginia Bar Exam! Now I can sue people!