CONGRATULATIONS!

I haven't had a chance to blog in a while, so I thought I would take this opportunity to congratulate some of my friends on the newest additions to their families. Firstly to the Scotts in New Mexico a real belated congrats! To Mike and Tierra in Cali on the birth of their daughter. To Nicole B. and her family congrats. I can't wait to see some pictures of Kennedy. And the newest since yesterday, congrats to Phillip, Mandy and Preston. Glad to hear mom and baby Riley are doing great! Just to remind you how quickly they grow, just look at how big Chloe is!

Pardon the Interuption

OK. My wife is going to kill me for doing this. Hopefully I will be in a foreign country when she discovers this.

If I am indeed caught and killed, I leave everything to my wife, even though see is the reason I am dead.

This may be against blog rules, but here it goes.

I am not very good at words or expressing myself in an eloquent way.

It is not everyday that God blesses this world with a truly wonderful person in the way he blessed the world when Claudia was born.

She is my anchor. I was adrift in the world, lacking direction and purpose, until she became my world and my purpose for living.

She is the only person that I can be around all the time and never get sick of. Even when I am raging with anger towards her, my only desire is to be by her side. I could not imagine going a day without hearing her voice. She inspires me to be a better person everyday.

She is the model of patience. You need to be when you are married to me. She is an incredible mother and homemaker. Even with a plate overflowing on all sides, she constantly takes on more, trying to make our lives better.

She is incredibly beautiful. I remember waking up the morning of our honeymoon and gazing on her beautiful face and thinking; with her all disheveled, no makeup, hair undone, drooling (OK, she was not drooling), that I was laying next to the most attractive woman in the world. I still feel that way today.

She is successful in everything that she tries to accomplish and positively touches all around her.

I am blessed today and will be everyday and throughout all eternity that she is in my life.

She is my wife, my princess, my queen, my sexiperfectsy.

Love
Peter

Up for a challenge??

As most of you know, our beloved prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley passed away at the age of 97.

I was thinking of how I could honor his legacy and I came up with an idea. My friend and I have created a challenge for those willing to accept it: Read the Book of Mormon in 97 days. We are trying to get everyone to start on the same day. Here are the details:

Goto www.hinckleychallenge.com and create an account (free, of course).
On Feb 4, 2008 (the Monday following the funeral) have an FHE lesson on the Book of Mormon and begin your reading.
Each day you read, record what page number you are on by going to www.hinckleychallenge.com.

We would like this challenge to be heard all around the world! Please forward this message to everyone you know. We would love to see over 1 million pages of the Book of Mormon read by the time this challenge has ended.

Do you want to show your support? Do you want to follow the prophet? Do you want to get rid of all of your excuses for not reading and become a warrior? Then join me in this challenge!!!

We are going to spread this throughout the news media (TV and radio) and we've already contacted Fox news, KSL, CBS, and ABC. But we cannot get the word out to everyone without your help! Please forward this on to EVERYONE in your address book. Time is of the essence!! This will be the one forwarded message that everyone will be happy to get :).

-Jake Andersen

P.S. You can always see an updated list of those who have accepted the challenge by clicking here (www.hinckleychallenge.com/warriors.php)

New First Presidency Announced

02/04/2008 12:00 AM MST

Thomas S. Monson is the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it was announced today at a news conference in the Church Office Building. President Monson, 80, succeeds President Gordon B. Hinckley, who passed away January 27th.

The new world leader of the Church has called to serve with him in the First Presidency, the top governing body of the 13-million-member faith, President Henry B. Eyring, 74, first counselor, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 67, second counselor.

President Boyd K. Packer, 83, is the new president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will be filled later.

Kicking off the New Year!

A little late....but

I just had to post this picture of Ethan. It was his first day of Pre-school and it happened to be picture day too! Happen to come across it, so I thought I would post it!

President Hinckley tribute by Glenn Beck

Last week we headed down to Canyon Lake for a fun filled week with Peter's parents and his sister Mo. Unfortuneately the weather was pretty miserable, so we didn't get to explore much of the area. We did however manage to sneak in a day of sight seeing in San Antonio and of course the "girls" spent a day at San Marcos doing what we do best....SHOPPING!(That place is amazing!) It was really good to spend time with family and Chloe got some more fine tuning done on her walking. She did in the process acquire some serious bumps to her head, but she still kept going! Now she is a "walking" only little 13 month old and her personality seems to grow by the day!

Chloe and I enjoying the River Walk!
Chloe enjoying the view of the lake
My attempts to unpack when we got home!
Check out my giant bruise thanks to the sleigh coffee table.
Can't go to San Antonio without making a stop at the Alamo!