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This is a picture of our new house for all those who did not recieve my progress reports during construction. There are only a few of you, because I sent those updates out to just about everyone on my contact list. We are settling in a little. It will take time to get comfortable here. I was hoping we could just pick up where we left off in Lehi, but it will take time to make friends and bonds and trust people here. I forget that we lived in Lehi for 8 years and were neighbors with some of the people there for those 8 years. I hope we made the right decision moving here.

Hunting Carnage 2007

Alright already Vanessa... geeeeeeeze.... so I tried to do two things in one weekend and it about killed me. I played in a softball tournament in St. George friday night and all day Saturday, drove to Ephriam saturday night, woke up Sunday morning at 5:30 a.m. and shot a deer in the leg. NICE!!! We walked and walked and walked until I had blisters on my heels looking for the massive two point. Finally we gave up and went back to camp (grandma peterson's house) and made chicken dumplings for everyone. We took the kids out with us sunday evening to the same spot where we last saw my wounded trophy buck and low and behold it jumped up from behind a tree and tried to make his get away again. This time I was able to make a kill shot and it took him a while to lay down; so poor Maddie was behind me in a little quiet voice saying "mommy, mommy, mommy". I was sooooooo tired Sunday night, and my feet hurt so bad I decided next year I need to choose between the annual Peterson family hunting weekend and softball. I don't know what I will choose. I know the picture looks scary with the gun right at Maddie's head, but if you look closely you will notice that she is quite a ways behind me, and of course, there is no bullet in the chamber and gun is on safety. I took Hunters Safety at Snow College thank you very much :)

Random Playground Accidents

Who would have thought you could do a Charlie Brown move in real life? It can be done! Today Brayden was playing soccer at recess and went to do a "big" kick and missed the ball. Feet went flying and he landed on his neck/shoulder. He was refusing to move and said his neck hurt, so the school called me and I got there to find him laying flat on his back with three or four teachers standing around him. Scared me to death. I thought it would be best to have the paramedics come and do an assessment on him to determine if we could move him or not. The paramedics said did not show any signs of spinal chord trauma. He had feeling in his hands and feet, could respond, and did not black out so I decided to take him to the hospital myself. We ended up at the instacare with a P.A. who diagnosed him with strained muscles in three different areas of his right shoulder and up his neck to the base of his head. The P.A. prescribed Motrin three times a day and icing it every hour. Brayden thought he should stay home from school today... naturally .... but it's okay, after all, he did get to have the ambulance come for him.