Sidell Peterson 2011 Family Vacation: Days 1-3

The first leg of the vacation began on Thursday night when we drove down to visit the Kettell Klan in Massachusetts.  We arrived late at night so the Kettell kids were already in bed. But boy were they excited to wake up to new playmates in the morning!

They spend the rest of the day enjoying one another’s company with the supervision of their father’s while Jess and I went for a “quick” trip to Ikea!  With no kids, you should have seen us, we were dancing down the isles 

They also worked hard to get the yard ready for the following day’s Easter egg hunt.  The kids especially liked the leave blower.

We clearly timed our visit right because we got to participate in the Kettell’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt. The boys LOVED it! 

The Easter egg hunt was a perfect way to to burn off some energy before the bus picked us up for our ride to Florida…

Sidell Peterson Family Vacation 2011: A Blogging Series

The Sidell Peterson Family just returned from their 2011 vacation extravaganza. While there were some worries prior to departure, the vacation turned out to be fun and warm!  Stay tuned for our vacation adventures on the blog!

The Blogging Drought Continues…

The good news is, I found my camera after having misplaced it for 1.5 weeks, hence the blogging drought.  The bad news is (not really bad, but bad for the blog), we are leaving for Massachusetts and then Florida today. So, sorry to our loyal followers, but the blogging drought will continue for a couple more weeks. 

But just to add some color and visual appeal to this post, here are a couple of oldies but goodies.  April 2010. My goodness Boodle has changed a bit…

My Famous Sister!

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/04/08/outdoors/bangor%E2%80%99s-sole-sisters-strengthen-their-bond-with-each-run/

A Dance Party Guest

We were fortunate enough to have a great visitor last week. Our life long friend, Cathy (or if you are not a life long friend of hers, she goes by “Catie” to you, but we have grandfathered ourselves in to call her “Cathy”.)  Anyway. She was a great sport to join us with our dance party! 

She also stayed with us for the big snow storm because, well, I think her car was stuck in our driveway. But regardless, we had a great sleepover. And I think after a couple of days with the Peterson Boys, we have ensured that she will not be having kids anytime soon  So, if you have any teenagers who you want even better birth control for, just send them to our house for a weekend! 

The Rising and Falling of a Snowman

With all of this sticky snow and such a warm day, the kids were very excited to make a snowman. 

First, we perfected our snowball making. (A solid base is key)

Then for about 30 seconds we were happy with the product…

But we could decide whose hat the snowman should wear…

This was such a dilemma, that Soren did was any rational three year old would do. He began to destroy the snowman…

And climb the snowman…

And poor Bodie was so upset with this, he decided to comfort himself with food…

So my kids are a little cannibalistic…

Well that was at least 5 minutes of entertainment…what do we do next?

This Has to Be an April Fools Joke…

Spring was finally here. Our last pile of snow was officially gone. Rotting dog poop was in the air. Yes, it was definitely spring.  Until Mother Nature played a horrible April Fools Joke on us…

But at least it was warm enough to play with all the white stuff…