Week 8 - Beautiful Weather

Nothing terribly exciting happened this week, however the weather has been gorgeous! I went jogging on Tuesday the 24th, walked with Ember over our lunch hour on the 25th, and my cousin Megan joined me at Standing Bear Lake for another jaunt around the lake that afternoon.



Dean left for the beginning of his Grand Island project on Wednesday as well. He should be home this Friday and hopefully the project will stay on track so that he's able to come home on weekends. The project usually goes through the end of March.

2.22.09 - 2.28.09

Week 7 - Happy Birthday to Dean!

I'm amazed how we are already in Week 7! I thought this project would help us hold onto time better, yet it's making me realize even more how fast it's going!



This week's picture commerate's Dean's 36th birthday (2/18). We enjoyed a nice dinner at home and Dean even had a cute birthday cake. :-) The rest of our week was fairly uneventful. On Saturday we did some shopping for his birthday, ate lunch at one of our favorite places, Feta's, and went to see Slumdog Millionaire... definitely worth all the Oscar nom's (and wins)!

2.15.09 - 2.21.09

Week 6 - New Life, New Snow & New Prize!!

This was an eventful week to say the least...

The purpose of this weekly picture project is to capture 2009 since 2008 flew by... This made me realize that we had barely seen our friends since NYE and how it would be nice to get together one last time before Kathleen and Dave have their baby (due Feb 12th) and to get to know our new friend Andy better. So on February 8th, we had brunch at The Farmhouse Cafe with Kathleen & Dave, Ember & Kris (and Parker), and Stacy & Andy. We had a great time and agreed to make it a regular occasion since Sunday mornings are generally open. Stacy and I joked how it takes months to agree on a weekend for our Game Nights, but only took a few days o organize this Sunday brunch. :-) So below the picture we chose to represent Week 6 is of us at brunch with everyone.


Now, introducing Cole Matthew Peterson... Cole was born on February 9th at 7:32pm to Kathleen & Dave. He weighed 8lbs, 7oz and was 22" long. On February 10th we headed to Bergen Mercy to congulate the new parents and meet lil' Cole. We were joined by Ember & Kris and Stacy and her family. Here are a few pictures from the hospital (click to enlarge).



We also had our biggest snowfall of the season on Friday, the 13th (how fitting). Here are some pictures from that. The first shows the depth of the snow, the second is the puppies watching Dean snow blow, and the third is the view from the peep hole on our front door. :)


And I supposed I shouldn't end this week's post without mentioning the most popular day of week... Valentine's Day. We kept it really low-key this year and ordered take-out from one of our favorite restaurants Hiro and watched Burn After Reading on On Demand. The day was actually most exciting in the afternoon though! As I was making us lunch the doorbell rang and Dean went to get it and found a box the mailman left on our doorstep. Dean had just received his diabetes supplies the day before so we knew it wasn't that, which meant it could only be one other thing.... a prize from one of the hundreds of sweepstakes I enter!!! I was right and it is sooooooo cool! Since we are eventually hoping to have a baby I periodically enter sweeptakes for baby products. I saw this particular prize being offered and thought it was perfect for our situation. We won a MobiCam, which is a wireless audio/video monitoring system that has a color camera on the receiver. The part that intrigued me most is that it also hooks up to the internet and feeds live video onto a website so when Dean is gone on his trips he can see our baby sleeping in the crib, or wherever we might have the camera placed. Plus so can all our out-of-town friends and relatives!! I was literally jumping up and down when we opened the box. I love the sweeps that don't tell you that you've won ahead of time and you're suprised with a something on your doorstep!

2.8.09 - 2.14.09

Week 5 - Sixth-Month Wedding Anniversary

Today was a day of many great things. First, Dean came home from New Mexico! We hadn't seen each other in 23 days... much too long! Second, today was the 6-month anniversary of our wedding in Hawai'i and Dean surprised me with a gorgeous calla lily and rose bouquet at work. He was on his way home when I received the flowers so we communicated via text message--which turned out pretty funny. So alas, here is a collage from 2/4 for our Week 5 picture. :-) (Click on the picture to enlarge in order to read the text).

2.1.09 - 2.7.09

Week 4 - The Way To My Heart... Salsa!

Awww, Dean told me last week that he was sending me something from New Mexico and I come home today (Jan 30th) to find a box on our porch, the makings of the picture for Week 4!! He sent me my favorite Trader Joe Pineapple Salsa, some Tiffany blue candles (they smell sooooooooo good), and a beautiful bracelet! I'm very lucky to be his wife b/c although these things might not sound like much to others, these are all things very dear to me so that makes them even more special!

Dean was supposed to be home late this week but little by little things started going awry down in New Mexico, and one of the delays actually made news on CNN! On January 27th CNN broke news that a FedEx plane crashed in Lubbox, TX near where Dean is in NM. After reading this at work I teased with coworkers that "great, my gifts that he sent me are probably on that plane!" Although they weren't, ironically all the testing he had done that week was supposed to be on the plane (should it have landed, loaded, and taken off again). So that meant they had to re-sample a few days worth. So that'll teach me to joke about things like that! Anyway, here is a screenshot of part of the story on CNN. (click to make it bigger)

1.25.09 - 1.31.09

Week 3 - Gayway Run

Like I said last week, Dean has been in New Mexico on work since beginning of last week, luckily this weekend he was able to get away a bit to go snowboarding in Santa Fe. Here is a picture of him posing on the "Gayway" run on January 24th. ;-)


1.18.09 - 1.24.09

Week 2 - Address to the Nation

Dean left Monday (January 12th) for New Mexico on a work trip, so nothing too terribly exciting happened this week. I did watch President Bush’s last televised address to the nation on January 15th though. LOL, I know this picture is sooo posed, but I really did watch the entire presidential address and thought it would be a good moment in time to capture--posed or not. ;-)



1.11.09-1.17.09