Shelby, Korri & Co.

Pre - K

2011-08-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

We decided to do a half-day pre-Kindergarten this year for Max instead of all day Kindergarten. We went and met his teacher last week. He was a little nervous but I promised to stay with him and we made it quick. The first day of school he woke up throwing up. Poor guy! So, Tuesday was his "first" day of school. He did NOT want to go. He cried and threw quite the tantrum. Somehow we got him dressed and fed. He started to calm down as we walked out the door. He had a lot of questions and the more I answered the calmer he got. We walked him in the door and his teacher came over and took him over to the blocks and sat with him. He didn't even look back so we left. When we went to pick him up he had a huge grin and gave me the longest biggest hug ever. He said he "had soooo much fun!" He was disappointed a little later when he asked if the sun was going down yet and I said it wasn't. "But I want it to go down so I can go to school!" ;)

Summer 2011

2011-08-08T09:59:00.000-07:00

We have had a very fun summer! We got settled in our new house. Cameron turned one in May! He loved digging into his cupcake. What a mess!

Max turned 5 in July! He wanted an UmiCar cake for his birthday. I was scared to make it but I was pretty proud of the outcome! His face when he saw it made it worth it. :)

My sister, Mikie, and her kids came down from Virginia for a visit. Max loved having his cousins here. We went to the Georgia Aquarium, a Braves game, we got soaked at the fireworks show in Newnan and of course, we had to go for shakes at Steak 'n Shake! ;)

We signed up Max for swimming lessons and he went under water for the first time! He didn't like it at first. It took him a couple days to get used to it but now he'll even practice his swimmining moves in the tub! His last lesson he jumped off the diving board! We are soo proud of him!

Another sister, Haley, and her cute little family came to visit for a day of rest on their way home to Virginia. We had so much fun with them here!

Max starts pre-K in one week! We are really excited for him to start. Soccer comes in September! I'll try to keep up! ;)

We are Georgians!

2011-04-11T10:52:00.001-07:00

After months of ups and downs we finally closed on our house in Georgia! The boys and I took a rode trip with my mom down to clean it up and paint. Here are some before and after pictures. The kitchen was the brightest yellow I have ever seen!

Now it is a beautiful light green!

The fireplace had the fun yellow from the kitchen with a black wall splattered with red. It had to go!

It became the same green as the kitchen with a touch up of brown for the fireplace.!

The entry-way was an interesting salmon-pink, orangey color.

Exchange it for cream and voila! What a difference!

The basement was the only room we didn't have to change the colors on!

After two weeks of hard work we cleaned out the garbage (thanks Shelby!), got new carpet installed (thanks dad!), painted (thanks mom!), and got the rest of the stuff hauled off to good will. Now its ready for us to pack our stuff and head east!

Vacation January 2011

2011-02-07T17:21:00.000-08:00

When we asked Max what he wanted to do for our vacation this year he wanted more than anything to go to the beach. So, we went to sunny southern California for a visit. Both Max and Cameron had a blast at the beach in Orange County. We went to Supercross at the Dodger Stadium. Even Cameron wore ear plugs. It was pretty loud but we all had a good time.

Max loved seeing the seals in San Diego.

We spent an afternoon at the beach at the Hotel del Coronado. What a beautiful place!

We went on a tour of the USS Midway in San Diego. It was amazing!

Max had fun getting in all the planes.

Halloween 2010

2010-11-05T08:14:00.001-07:00

Max was soo excited to go trick-or-treating this year. Unfortunately, it started hailing when we started out but it ended up lightly drizzling. He was happy after about 5 houses so we went home. We spent more time taking pictures than we did trick-or-treating!

My mom made Max's costume. He walked around saying "Yee-haw!" while yanking on the reins.

We couldn't decide which costume for Cameron so he got to be two this year. Here's the future supercross champion.

And here's the future football player.

Cameron

2010-07-26T10:40:00.000-07:00

We welcomed Cameron Don Peterson to the family on May 20. He was 7 lbs. and 18 1/2 in. long. Getting ready to take him home.

Max picked out a stuffed monkey and lion for Cameron's bed.

We had to take Cameron back to be tested for Jaundice a couple times and this was our first trip back out.

The Peterson boys. Aren't they cute? :)

Bed Rest

2010-04-16T07:45:00.000-07:00

This was one of my last days of freedom! ;) This baby is due mid-May but decided he wanted to try coming early. 7 weeks is a little too early so my doctor put me on bed rest. The first week was the hardest but Max has been a trouper and we've managed another week. We have a little less than a week to go and then the doctor says I can have the baby any time after that!

Wee - Haw

2010-03-26T08:45:00.000-07:00

Our little cowboy! Some friends were giving away this one of a kind horsie. I couldn't wait to pick it up for Max. He was a little shy at first but once we got it home he jumped on it and said "Wee-Haw!"

It didn't take him long to stand up on it. Fortunately, Grandpa Peterson had just brought home a cowboy hat from Wyoming so he had something to wear on his head. :) He loves to show it all off whenever someone comes over.

Monster Trucks

2010-01-20T09:05:00.001-08:00

Max has loved monster trucks for awhile now so when we found out there were some coming to Salt Lake we had to go. This was one of our favorite ones. He ended up flipping over on it's back. Max still talks about it. They were giving rides on a monster truck so of course Max and Shelby had to go on it! Max cried when it was over. The driver thought he was scared so Shelby had to tell him he was crying because he didn't want to get off!

Max loved pointing out all of the monster trucks to Nana.

Halloween 2009

2009-11-28T12:25:00.000-08:00

We had a great Halloween this year. We went on the haunted Heber Creeper. We were worried that Max would get scared but he had a lot of fun. We were pretty proud of the pumpkins we carved. Max had fun blowing out the candles inside of them. He kept singing "Happy Birthday to you!" Even Kitty got to dress up along with the rest of us! We announced that we are pregnant! Not a lot of people got it at first. We had to tell them to look harder at my costume. I don't know who had more fun trick-or-treating, Max or Shelby!

Belgium/France

2009-09-02T09:03:00.001-07:00

Well, we decided to take one last vacation while we still had our travel benefits. The original plan was Munich but when we didn't get on the flight the next plane to Europe was Brussels, Belgium. So, off we went. We spent the first day looking around the city and had Belgian waffles. Wow! they were amazing! The next afternoon we hopped on a train to a smaller town in the southern part of Belgium called Namur. There was a wonderful citadel there that we could walk around in. It turns out that our hotel was part of it so we just had to step outside to see the amazing sights. The next day we hopped on one of those speed rails and in an hour and a half we were in wonderful Paris! We had one day to see all the sights and we pulled it off! It was great! I can't wait to go back when we can spend more time there.

Destin, FL

2009-08-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

So, after 10 years I finally got to go to Destin, FL. It was everything I imagined it would be. We took advantage of some of our last days of travel benefits and decided to go. Shelby and Max had a fun time burying Max in the snow white sand. We went to the Gulfarium and saw a Dolphin and Sea Lion show. It was amazing.

Birthday Boy

2009-07-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

Max turned 3 yesterday! Shelby made the bestest cake ever! Here is Shelby and Max putting together his Lightening McQueen scooter.

CRJ

2009-02-17T16:05:00.000-08:00

We had an open house at our company. Families were invited to tour our hanger and check out some new airplanes. We were able to take a picture of Korri and Max sitting in the cockpit in one of the new planes we will now operate. Its Shelby's "office."

St. Lucia

2009-02-04T11:00:00.000-08:00

We recently took advantage of our first paid vacation ever and went to St. Lucia. It's an island in the Southern Caribbean. Here is the view of the private beach from our room at Zamaca, the B&B that we stayed in. Shelby and Max were trying to climb the coconut tree. Here is a picture of Max and Shelby on one of the cannons left from the fort. We had a driver, Melvin, that took us around to all of the local places. We got to see ALL of the island. Not just the tourist spots. This is Korri and Max at the beach where the locals go. Max loved the boats.

Catching up a bit

2008-12-31T10:38:00.000-08:00

We got Max his first pair of snow pants and jacket. In this picture he was all ready to go on a four-wheeler ride with daddy. Doesn't he look soo cute! Max was our little motocross racer for Halloween. It was a shock to actually have him wear his costume all night and not one tear! We took him trick-or-treating for the first time and he loved getting all of the candy. He was very disappointed when it was time to go home.

Braves vs. Astros

2008-07-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

We had some time the other day so we went to the Braves, Astros baseball game. It was a lot of fun. Max did really well. I thought he'd get bored fast but he actually got into it. Every time a Braves' heavy hitter would step up to the plate they would blast some Indian song and the crowd would move their arms back and forth like a tomahawk. Max was right there with everybody cheering and moving his had back and forth. The game went 14 innings we left around the 12th. Having lived in both cities we figured that no matter who one..we'd win. I guess with that philosphy we lost too, right?

Korri and Max in front of The Braves Drum

Six Flags

2008-07-03T23:05:00.000-07:00

Right now I'm on reserve which means that I fly a really crappy schedule and the airline can call me when they want. I have to be ready to fly within two hours of a phone call from the airline. Last month I flew a lot. There are days though when you wait for a phone call.

So here's what we have figured out:

There happens to be a Six Flags, within an 30 minutes of the airport. So rather than sitting around waiting a phone call...some of my pilot friends, Korri and I bought season passes to pass the time! We go to the park (with a uniform and travel bag in the car) and pass the day there. We've only gone a few times but it's a lot of fun. Here are videos (not ours) of some of the roller coasters there.

This is the fastest: This is the scariest: This one makes you a little sick: I didn't film any of these so it wasn't us screaming....but we did. Max has a good time too.

A Day in the life...

2008-06-21T10:51:00.000-07:00

Here is the best way to describe my average work day.

Our Visit to Weiser Air Park

2008-05-30T03:00:00.000-07:00

We live a few blocks from this small air strip. It's 33 feet wide and 3500 feet long. Landing on it is like land on a dirt road, but there are a lot of people who fly there. Today we decided to swing by to pick up a book.

As we were pulling into the Air Park I said to Korri, "I wonder if Max will realize these are the airplanes that fly over the neighborhood." Just as I said that Max screamed and started kicking his feet in excitement. "Does that answer your question?" Korri sarcastically asked.

While I went in to get the book Korri chased Max as he ran from plane to plane checking out the tires, admiring the wings, and props. At one point a plane taxied by, Max stopped dead in his tracks as it passed, waved then went on. I got permission from the girl in the small shop to let Max sit in one of the planes.

I opened the door, Max ran as fast as he could and climbed up the strut trying to get in. Once he was in the seat he stood there in awe looking at the controls, instruments and radios. After checking out the cockpit he grabbed the yoke and swung it from side to side, while talking his own coded language.

When it was time to go Korri put him in his car seat and that's when the temper tantrum started. He was so upset to leave! As we drove off he cried and waved at the planes. It took a few miles and a sour straw candy for him to calm down. I decided that next time I have a day off and the weather is good, I'll take him flying with me.

Photos of Max

2008-05-19T13:39:00.000-07:00

I was going through my hard drive and found these picutes of Max. Sorry, they were taken from our video camera so the images are really grainy. He loves walking around with this flag. Every time an airplane flys by Max will stop whatever he's doing, find it in the sky, point then wave while saying "DADOO". It's really cute. He does the same when he sees big trucks, boats, & trains.

It's been a while, since I've logged on. But I have good excuses.

2008-05-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it's been two months since my last post! There is a lot to update. So I'll just do a quick summary now, since I have time, and add details later. Let me say that the last two months have been busy, stressful, exciting and rewarding. As a reminder I've been training with an airline. Since my last post, I passed the company, aircraft systems, and ops written exams. I moved onto the sim portion of training, worked through that. Took and passed my oral exam and flight checkride with a company check airman. Then last week finished IOE or initial operating experience (flying revenue passengers with a check airman). Korri and I have relaxed for a moment because I'm done. Well kind of done, now comes a year of probation and rough times for the airline industry. I only saw my family a couple of times in the past few months, so the best part is that I've spent some time with them. We've had some good times. Here are some photos I look like a limo driver! but I'm not although that might be a cool job. The CRJ When Max saw me in my uniform he looked at my hat and laughed! It only stayed on his head long enough to take the picture. I got bored and plotted out places I've flown to. The Red dots are places since being with this airline, blue are places I'm flying to this month and Green are places I've flown into before getting on with an airline. Most of these places I've flown into multiple times. I was really bored. Family time shopping, Max actually likes this hat. More family time!

KITTY!!!

2008-03-10T21:15:00.001-07:00

We have the most interesting cat! First off he's huge. Before we put him on a diet he weighed around 25 pounds (about what Max weighed). He's lost quite a bit of weight. He LOVES laying in boxes and bags. When he's outside and we come home he'll come running to the sound of our truck. When he's inside and wants out he'll meow and scratch at the back door. Same as when he wants in. He takes up the whole bed a night and wakes us up in the morning. Max loves playing with him and when he gets annoyed the cat will just leave. He reminds us of a dog. He's a pretty good cat/dog.

Remember these 3D posters?

2008-03-02T10:17:00.000-08:00

The trick is to relax your eyes while staring in the center. If you have problems click on the image and it will go to a new page. I like the bottom one and the butterflies the best.

I've been tagged!!!

2008-02-10T00:06:00.000-08:00

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

10 Years Ago (Feb. 1998):
I was in the MTC ready to go to Colombia. Wow, It's been that long? I didn't keep a journal but if I remember right I got to Bogota on February 10th. Ten years ago today! I heard that the Bogota airport was in a dangerous part of town. When I left the airport there were a lot of people waiting outside, most of them grabbing at us trying to take our bags. Then we got into the mission van and went to the Mission Office. Late that evening I heard police sirens and a lot gun fire from just outside. It really set the tone for the next two years.

5 Things on my To-Do List today: The day is over, so I'll tell you what I did today:
1. I went over to Flight Safety and worked on checklist flows.
2. Came back to my hotel room and studied CRJ limitations.
3. Went out for some air.
4. Came back to my hotel room and studied the electrical system on the CRJ.
5. Watched the NASCAR Shootout.
(tomorrow I'll probably to the same thing, Except watch the Pro Bowl insteed of racing.

Snacks I enjoy:
I love Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Nuked Marshmellows and Grapes.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Make sure my whole family was taken care of.
2. Take care of my kid's, siblings', nephews' & nieces' educations were paid for.
3. Form a charitable organization that wasn't corrupt.
4. Buy a CRJ (that plane is amazing).
5. I'd flight instruct. It's really fun and rewarding teaching others to fly.
6. Wake up, the reality is....well I just don't see it happening.

3 of my bad habits:
1. I take REALLY long showers...I think I ran the hot water out of the Hyatt Hotel in Atlanta.
2. Most nights I kick Korri in my sleep......a lot. Sorry sweetie ;)
3. What ever I bring into the truck, stays in the truck! It's usually a mess.
4. I avoid the dirty draipers

5 places I have lived:
1. Provo, UT (most of my time was past here)
2. Spanish Fork, UT
3. Springville, UT
4. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (in northern Florida, next to Jacksonville. Very nice place to live. Just a few blocks from some beautiful beaches....I'd like to get back there some day.)
5. Houston, TX (the arm pit of the USA...It's actually not bad. I just didnt like my job all that much and that's the ONLY thing I did there. Hopefully I'll start to like it now. There are a lot of neat things there.)

5 jobs I have had:
1. Cherry factory in Payson.
2. Frandsen's Rec Center. I built motorcycles.
3. Bill's Appliance. 9 years, I really miss working with my Dad and I like fixing things and learning new stuff.
4. Standardization instructor. (Jacksonville Beach, FL) I trained new flight instructors and stuff.
5. Training Center Manger/Chief flight instructor. (Houston TX). Same company as in FL. It was a promotion to the most difficult thing I've had to do. ATP asked me to go to Houston and establish a new location. It was about 3 months before I was able to take a weekend off.

5 things people don't know about me:
1. I was thrown into fence and had a gun held to my head while being robbed on my 21st birthday. It's actually a really funny story. They took everything I had but a big bowl of rice I was carrying (It's also a long story)
2. I'm scared of heights, but I love flying.
3. When I was on my mission I was impressed with the fact that I'd marry somebody that went to my high school. But I also felt that I'd marry somebody from California. I forgot about that until after Korri and I got married. We went to the same high school and she's from California.
4. One year I played trick for Halloween. I got on my motorcycle and chase older kids down the street until they'd drop their bag of candy.
5. I've wanted a gorrilla costume for years now. My plan is to ride my motorcycle around town with it on. Maybe race a motocross race with it on. Korri laughs at me but some day I'll be laughing at her with a cool gorrilla costume on.

Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years.
5 years: I see myself with a couple more kids. I want to get on with Continental mainline by then. They're a good airline that is well managed, right now anyways.
10 years: Watching my kids grow, Korri and I will be enjoying the benefits of traveling. Hopefully I'd be with Continental flying international trips with enough seniority to either be a flight instructor within the company or a Designated Pilot Examiner for the FAA.

SUCCESS!!!

2008-02-07T13:57:00.000-08:00

We finally got Max's picture taken! Korri has been trying for a month to do this. She would get him in his hair and outfit on then go out the door to get his picture taken. Over and Over. Here's the story:

Korri walks in to the photo studio in the Wal-Mart. They walk into the studio and look around for a moment. Max takes a good look and begins crying. "Oh Well, maybe he's tired. I'll try again tomorrow."

The next day she goes through the same routine. Max is fine the whole way to Wal-Mart, once they walk into the studio he begins crying! She decides to leave and try a couple days later.

A few days later they go through the same routine. They go into the Wal-Mart, once Max saw the studio he begins crying!!!

I was a bit skeptical and thought maybe Max was tired. A few days later we all went to Wal-Mart for grocercies. I told Korri I was taking Max to test something. We walked up to the studio entrance. As I got close Max got nervious. Once I walked in he began crying! So I turned around and left. Outside of the studio Max stopped. So I turned around and started heading for the studio. Instantly he began crying. So I turned around and walked away in disbelief. Of course Korri is watching this from a distance laughing.

A couple weeks later we stopped by Wal-Mart to pick up some things for me to take to Atlanta. It had been a long day. Walking into Wal-Mart Korri got embarressed because I left Max's left shoe in the truck. He spilled water on him so he was all wet too. As we left I grabbed Max and began walking to the studio. Just to see what his reaction would be. He was tense but relaxed when I showed him the pictures on the wall and the toys in the back. But he would not let me put him down. Korri stood in awe as we walked throught the studio. We decided that this may be our only opportunity. I sat Max down on the stool. Korri kneeled next to him and took off his other shoe and the photographer began snapping pictures as I made him laugh. It was hard work but the pictures were worth it. (The airplane was a toy we had bought him that day and he has no shoes!)

Last Flight in the Seminole

2008-01-11T22:17:00.000-08:00

Well I had to stardardize the guy taking my position in Houston. I killed his left engine to test his reaction to the emergency. He did alright. It was the first time in over 200 hours that I had been in the left seat so I told him to shut down and secure the engine. Knowing It'd be my last flight in the plane I love so much; I told him to give me the controls. I took the controls and started flying at 5,500 feet on one engine. I was having SO much fun that I told him to take a picture of me flying the plane with the feathered engine. He looked at me kind of funny then I said that if he wanted to pass and keep his job he take some pictures. He did.

These Photos are at 5,500 feet on one engine (the right engine was running at full power). Notice that the left engine prop is not moving and turned into the wind. It was a fun flight....I passed him and got him on the insurance. I took a few landings though. I'll really miss flying that Seminole; Hope the Jet is as much fun.

New Job

2007-12-18T16:21:00.000-08:00

Just got Hired!!! Soon Shelby will be cruising around behind the stick of this!

Maw watchin himself part 2

2007-12-06T23:53:00.000-08:00

Max watching himself in the camera

2007-12-06T22:31:00.000-08:00

Everytime we have the camera out Max will twist the display around so he can see himself in the camera. Most of our footage of Max looks like this. Notice the delayed reaction when I told him to put the ball in?

Max just got this toy today from his Aunt Karen

2007-12-06T21:37:00.000-08:00

Watch how excited he gets. I miss being a kid!!

Playing Outside

2007-12-06T21:33:00.000-08:00

Despite what you might think by his facial expression....He really had fun.

Playing Outside

2007-12-06T21:31:00.000-08:00

Making friends

2007-12-03T19:52:00.000-08:00

In Florida we had a insect net stapled to the patio. It kept the bugs out and the cat in.

Max and The Cat

2007-12-02T21:11:00.000-08:00

Max loves playing with The Cat. (we call him Kitty and The Cat) He has learned to tease The Cat like Shelby does.