Love you Grandpa Macor

Last Friday, November 13th, we said goodbye to our Grandpa. It's always sad when you lose someone close to you, and it never gets easier. Grandpa Macor was such a loving, friendly, giving person and we were so lucky to have him in our lives. He was close to all of our hearts - especially his three daughters - one being my mom. It's hard losing a grandparent, but I can't imagine losing a parent. It's been difficult watching my mom lose her dad. She was very close to him, and Im sure grew even closer to him over the many years he lived with my parents up in Humboldt. He leaves behind 3 daughters, 9 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. We will miss you grandpa Macor!

Catching up

wow - im not sure if I can catch up on all the retro blogging - but I will try... and make it short and sweet. Alyssa is now 2 1/2 months old and is growing like a weed. It took us a few weeks to establish a new routine, but we are defiently in a routine now. Steve took 3 days off after Alyssa was born - but then he was back to work. Mason is so good with his new sister, such the little helper these days!

When Alyssa was just 4 weeks old - we took a trip up to Humboldt to see my parents. It was such a great trip - visiting, relaxing, and a night out just Steve and I. We took Mason to the zoo - and showed him all 10 animals that live in the Eureka Zoo - I know sad! Steve and I also went out to sushi at our favorite spot "Tomo's" Yumm

Gosh I look tired - you forget about how tired you really are the first month with a newborn...

Mason had a great time mowing my parents lawn with Steve - we don't have riding lawn mowers down here in the Bay Area!

He also played some corquet with Papa :)

Every morning Mason and Papa would walk down the street to feed the horses carrots - and as we were leaving Mason had to say goodbye to the horses with Papa and Nonie.

Here is Uncle Garrett holding Alyssa - so cute they both fell asleep during dinner

We went to the pumpkin patch as we do each year with the cousins - Mason is at such a great age to run around and pick out his favorite pumpkin - here he is trying to pull the wagon with all our pumpkins - it didn't move...

the cousins...Tyler, Celest, Catherine, Mason and Caleb

They had a sandbox filled with corn instead of sand - the kids had a great time!

My sister came into town and made sugar cookies with Mason - he thought it was playdough and really wasnt in the mood to make the cookies - but he had no problem eating them when they were done.

Then we carved pumpkins...

Halloween was fun this year - Mason finally got the hang of trick or treating! He was a lion this year and Alyssa a pumpkin. We went to my cousin Jen's house where all the kids run around and play - we have soup salad and bread, and then hit the streets in search of candy.

Alyssa Julie Peters

August 29th, 2009

Started having contractions two day prior, every 10 minutes, but she wasn't ready yet to meet the world...

Saturday morning the contractions began to pick up in intensity, but I didn't let them slow me down! We went to Costco, hung around the house, and spent many hours in our room laboring - I wasn't ready either to head to the hospital! They finally were coming every 3 minutes by 8pm - so I decided maybe I should shower, blow dry my hair, and check my email! I was driving my mom CRAZY! The pain started getting almost unbrearable in the car ride over - and I think we hit every red light in town. We got to the hospital by 9pm - I was already at 5 cm - they quickly rushed to get me admitted - hooked up to the monitors - and before we knew it I was at 10 cm - screaming for some pain relief - and ready to push...but no doctor yet...

Alyssa Julie Peters

was born at 10:18pm

7 lbs 12 oz 20 1/4 in long

She's perfect!

Here we are moments after the delivery - what a fast delivery

Night and day from the last time!

The next morning my parents brought Mason to meet his new sister!

This is what he wanted to wear - thankfully they left the knee and elbow pads at home.

Proud brother!

I asked Mason if he loves his sister and he said yes, I then asked him if he wanted to take her home and he said noooo

Here we are eagar to come home!

And she already found her thumb!

More to come...