Erik's Track Meet & Trips to the Park

It was fun to be able to attend a couple of Erik's track meets while we were in California. Erik runs on the varsity team for his HS. Logan loved watching Erik run & yelling "Go Erik" in the bleachers. In fact, that became one of his favoriet phrases for Erik and one Sunday he decided to give Erik a little encouragement at church while Erik was passing the sacrament. As soon as Logan spotted Erik passing the sacrament he started yelling "Go Erik"!!


On your marks, get set, GO!


Logan loves to run & actually ran all the down one side of the track & then back up!

And so happy to have found Uncle Erik.

We also had many, many trips to the park while in California because the weather was pretty much ALWAYS perfect!

Nonni found these trucks while we were at Costco and of course had to get them. So as soon as we got home from Costco we had to head straight to the park with lunch to test them out! These became Logan's absolute favorite toys while in California!

Giving Roscoe kisses!

San Diego Zoo

We continued JT's spring break week by going to the San Diego Zoo... Logan now thinks California is the place we go to recieve CONSTANT entertainment.

Unfortunately San Diego zoo is not the best place for little guys. The zoo is HUGE, everything is really spread out and all the animal enclosures are up pretty high so you can't see them from a stroller. We still had a good time, but spent most of our time trying to figure out WHERE the animals were and getting in & out of strollers. We'll try again in a few years when he's older.

We've got JT looking...
It was impossible to get both these boys to look through the holes at the same time for a picture.

And now Logan...

And now Logan's in front looking at JT....

Not sure what he's doing, but apparently he's noticed that the goat has 2 ears.

"The Boy Who Stares At Goats"

Finally, success!

Disneyland (April 2010)

What better place to go two days after arriving in California...DISNEYLAND! Since JT was on Spring Break that week we all (mom, jt, megan, merz, logan and me) decided to trek out before it got too crowded with summer tourists!

Too cool... JT reminded us of a young version of "Zach Morris"!!

I can reach the peddles but now I can't see... ooops!

I'm pretty sure this is now illegal in California!!

It would not be a true Peterson outing without ice cream!!!

Nope...No Cavities!

The disneyland worker taking pictures said "I think this little guy has a future in Dentistry" as Logan immediately went to inspect Mater's teeth. We cracked up!! My mom informed him that Dad's a Prosthodonist & Mom is a hygienist...he's destined to work on teeth! :)

Ready to ride the tower of terror!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Meredith fully committed with her arms all the way up (ummm, was she a cheerleader!); I was hanging on to my sunglasses for dear life!

"L" is for Logan!

Mouthing "choo-choo" as the train pulls up!

Signing "choo-choo"... we're only slightly obsessed. Pretty much anything that moves with more than 2 sections is considered a "choo-choo" (ie, the tram we took from the parking lot to the entrance gate, the trolley that goes through Disneyland, and pretty much any ride that's on a track).

Mom & Merz

Hang everybody, we're almost there!

He's already mastered drinking out of the camelback!

I'm sure there will be many more Disneyland trips in this little guys future!

Roadtrip to California

With my little sister Megan getting married in June we decided it would just be easier (& cheaper) if Logan & I went out to California for a couple months to help instead of flying back & forth numerouse times . So the week after Easter Merzy flew out so that she could roadtrip with Logan & me all the way to California. I must say, we would not have been able to do it without her. 21 hours in the car with a 2 year old!!!!

I packed the car up with goodies, movies, music & who knows what else...I even had a map of where all the McDonald's with playplaces were along our trek!!! (their website actually has a mapping option...genius!!!)

Friday morning we woke up BEFORE the crack of dawn and left about 4am so Logan would sleep most of the 1st leg. We drove from Fort Worth to Midland, TX (about 4 hours) which Logan slept almost the entire way. We stopped at McDonalds (with a playplace) for breakfast. Then we made it all the way to Las Cruces, NM (about 5 hours) and stopped again at McDonalds. This time, Logan was awake, so we broke out our bag of goodies, or I should say Meredith did because I was driving.

Logan's sweet ride!


I wrapped EVERYTHING (snacks, toys) for Logan & he thought that was the greatest thing in the world. When it was time for a snack, it was time for a "present"...thanks to Marni for the GREAT tip!!!

He didn't really care what was inside, he just wanted to open presents!

Doing the "Hokey Pokey" outside of El Paso! Merzy was going nuts entertaining Logan with all sorts of pre-school tunes in the front seat...his favorite was the "Hokey Pokey" (which he now asks for pretty much everytime we get in the car). I'm sure we entertained countless truckers on our way out!!!

Merzy & I got up in the play place with Logan to get our wiggles out as well...that & Logan pretty much insisted that Merzy play with him at ALL times!

McD's

There was even a train outside the McDonald's in Las Cruces...JACKPOT!

After Las Cruces, it was back in the car. We flipped on a movie & Logan dozed off for a nap pretty much until we got to Tuscon, AZ (4 hours).

Logan wanted all his covers on him!

We stayed the night in Tucson to get a good nights rest. Next day, we headed out and made it to Phoenix & stopped by the mall where Merzy used to live so we could get lunch and let Logan play. Again, we were incredibly lucky, the mall had a mini train running through which the kids could ride. So after lunch, a train ride & some good play time we hopped back in the car for Logan's nap. We then made it all the way to Riverside until Logan woke up again & didn't stop until we got home (6 hours later).

Opening more presents (I actually just wrapped a bunch of toys we already had)!

Logan was awsome the entire trip (mostly thanks to Merzy for her awsome entertaining skills). I definitely think we'll be doing more roadtrips with him from now on!!

We then spent the next 3 months in California with family...more posts to come!

Fort Worth Zoo with Nonni

I am MONTHS behind on my posts...I'm sure it's gonna take me a week or two until I'm totally caught up...I have soooooo many picutres to post.

Nonni came to town in March just after we moved to our 2nd apartment in Fort Worth so she could watch Logan for us while Brent & I headed to Austin for some business meetings. It's been so nice to have my mom come to town to help out as we travel back & forth between Austin trying to get everthing set up for our business. A 2 year old is not always a lot of fun to drive 3 hours down to austin, sit in meetings & then drive back!

We did manage to get to the zoo before Brent & I took off though.

Nonni & Logan at the zoo.


Mommy & Logan looking at the zebras (i think)


waiting for the train...Logan's absolute favorite thing to do at the zoo. In fact, he now thinks that ALL zoos have trains and happens to be VERY disappointed if we go to a zoo that does not have a train!

Chillin' after a long day at the zoo (with a fresh war bruise on his nose from his face plant on the the truck ramp when we moved).

Rigby Advanced Dental (Austin, Texas)...coming soon!

First things first...
We've been incredibly busy the last few months because we've finally decided to jump in with both feet & start our own business in Austin, Texas. Rigby Advanced Dental will hopefully be opening mid-late September!

Ever since we moved to Texas last year we've been hoping to somehow make it to Austin, but the right job opportunity was just never there. So we tried San Antonio, then moved up to Fort Worth a few months later. But after a few months in Fort Worth we decided that Austin was still the place for us & the only way we were going to make it there was to do our own thing...So here we are. We're planning to make yet ANOTHER move at the end of August when Brent is done working in Fort Worth. We'll try to get settled in a few weeks before the practice opens.

At the moment, we're just waiting on our permits from the city so we can start construction. As soon as those are through construction should only take about 8 weeks...but, I'm not holding my breath. Hopefully it will go quickly, but we've all heard crazy construction stories.

Stay posted for more pictures as things progress.

After an exhaustive search of Austin, we found a great location just west of Austin in a city called Bee Cave. Our office will be in the Hill Country Galleria wich is a "lifestyle center" that opened about 5 years ago. We are just so excited about this area; it's enough outside of the city to not be too crowded, but close enough. Brent is really looking forward to utlizing his skills as a Prosthodontist in an area that really needs him. It's also minutes away from Lake Travis (Brent's hoping for a boat in the future!). The area is very hilly with lots of oak trees (hence, "Hill Country). We're hoping to find a place to live in either Bee Cave or Lakeway.

Our office space is behind the 2 trees on the left.


Different angle of our office space.

The office is actually going to be above the "Victoria Secret" (but on the back side)...the construction crew wasn't complaining about this at all since they'll be having to do some work through the store!! :)

The center isn't just an outdoor shopping mall, but it has city hall, the library and a large ampitheater!

Stay posted for more pictures as things progress.

Pictures from the cold Fort Worth Winter!

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures. These are obviously from months ago!! Our freezing winter in Fort Worth!

(The snowman has a tie on in case you were curious)!

Logan doing "O-H" already! Go Buckeyes!!!