"Let's Do This"

Our future phone talker displaying his skills. You also get to hear his famous phrase, "Let's do this."

Race Time

Garrick taught Logan how to race the other day, and now he loves to race - over and over and over again. Here's just a little snippet of how it goes.

End-of-Summer Outings

When Garrick's parents were in town a couple of weeks ago, we went to a baseball game just down the road from us. Logan loves playing in the grass and on their playground. Someday he might enjoy the actual game.
Garrick taught Logan how to roll down the grass hill.

The things you'll do for your kids/grandkids: Grandpa Peterson joined in on the rolling-down-the-hill action.

Enjoying the Utah State Fair. Note to self (and others): Don't wait until Sat night to go. It was fun, just a little crowded.

Logan loved being able to "drive" all of the "scoopers." He is way into "scoopers" lately. Thanks to an abundance of road construction, he's able to see one almost every time we go anywhere.

Meeting the sheep, up close and personal.

He was even brave enough to pet this one.

My two favorite boys with the sea lions in the background.

Tigger Again?

Due to his recent love of jumping and bouncing, it might not be a bad idea to bust out last year's Halloween costume and let Logan be Tigger again this year.

My Little Man Is Getting Big (or is it just his feet?)

Trying on mommy's shoes. In Gma and Gpa Peterson's wheelbarrow. What a fun ride!

Oops! The mud has been flung. Doesn't keep him from shoveling, though. (Bear Lake)

Zucchini

I finally got motivated to do something with the 4 zucchinis that have been sitting on my counter for a while now. I froze some, made a double batch of zucchini bread, and made this yummy zucchini soup. I may have shared the recipe last summer, but I'm going to share it again.

Zucchini Soup
1 c. chopped onion
1-2 Tblsp butter
3 c. sliced zucchini
2 c. chicken broth
1/4 t. salt
1/8 t. pepper
1/2 c. half-and-half (or regular milk)
1 c. grated cheese (optional)
4 slices bacon, cooked till crisp, then crumble

In a large saucepan, cook onions in melted butter until tender. Add sliced zucchini and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Simmer until tender (about 15 min). Add salt and pepper. Cool slightly. Pour mixture into blender and puree it. Stir in half-and-half (or milk). Return to saucepan and reheat, but don't boil. Garnish with grated cheese and bacon bits. Serves 6.

I changed this up a little this year, mostly because I had some cauliflower on hand, and thought, why not? So, I added about 1/2 a cauliflower (cut into pieces) with the zucchini. To compensate for that, I also added an extra cup of broth and a little extra milk. It turned out super tasty - even better than I remembered from last summer. Now I just need to remember to use my frozen zucchini to make this sometime this winter.

Prayer Time

We've had a couple of neat experiences with prayers lately. First off, Garrick lost his keys at work last Friday and wasn't able to find them by the time work was over. So, he hitched a ride home with a co-worker, and we were off to Bear Lake/Montpelier for the weekend. We got back Sunday afternoon, and decided to jaunt over to the school so that I could take a look around. We went through Garrick's office, the front office, the bathroom, the cafeteria, etc, etc and I wasn't having any more luck than Garrick did. Then we said a little prayer and kept looking. Garrick remembered that when he was bbqing hamburgers for the faculty, there was a piece of cardboard on the bbq where he was putting the cheese wrappers, and he wondered if his keys could have been placed on that cardboard and then thrown away. We headed for the dumpsters. We were able to pull out a couple of boxes of garbage, and we sorted through them, but found nothing. In order to go through the rest of the garbage, Garrick was going to have to get into the dumpster. Yuck! I was sorting through a bag of garbage when I heard keys dangling to my right. There was Garrick sticking his hand up from the dumpster, waving his keys in the air. Hooray! That was an answered prayer!

Logan is in the stage where he likes to repeat some of the words of our prayers. So, we usually go slow and emphasize words that we know that he knows. Our prayers go something like this (Logan's comments in parentheses.) "Thank you for mom (mom). Thank you for dad (dad). Thanks that we could go to the park (park). etc" Last night, Logan added a little twist. When Garrick said, "Thank you for dad," Logan said, "Garrick." Then Garrick said, "Thank you for mom," and Logan said, "Deyce." Of course, you kinda had to hear him say our names with his cute little accent, but it was pretty precious.