Grandparent Visit

I am way behind documenting this! My parents were here for about five days, two weeks ago (yes, that's how far I'm behind on this blog!) They came from the cold northern reaches of America (St. Louis, MO) to visit us in our relatively warm climate of Houston. They pretty much spent the time here in "quality time." They joined us for church on Sunday. And the girls had fun playing games with them (checkers, games on Wii, and the like.) It's wierd seeing my girls play such sophisticated games. But like my last post, more evidence that they are really growing. Thanks for visiting Grandpa and Grandma!

Yes. It's Time

Yes, the girls are finally big enough. A few days ago, we modified their car seats - taking the back off of them (as they designed to do) leaving just the seat. Now, they are merely seatbelted in with the rest of us, but boosted up higher so the seatbelt hits them correctly. The girls love the freedom and so do we. Honestly, it was time for it to happen.

We got a Wii!

Our family received some Christmas cash this year. And outside of the usual things done with cash (savings, pay off debts, etc.) we decided to get something fun and benficial for the family: we got a Nintendo Wii. We have had a blast with it since we got it. It's just hilarious to watch my little Emma clean her opponent's clock - knocking him out in Wii Sports "boxing. We have also since acquired Wii Play (good for Emma in a physical therapy sense and a lot of fun), Wii Music, and Wii Fit Plus (Sheri's purchase with some of her stole company profits.) All in all, a good purchase for lots of family fun.

Christmas 2009

Christmas celebrations at the Petering house were pretty low key. We had to work opening gifts and eating dinner around a lot of worship services.

I had not been feeling well starting already on the 23rd. But pressed through - leading 3 worship services on the 24th. Sheri and Emma got sick the evening of the 24th. On the afternoon of the 25th, I started having the "runs" big time. Sheri recovered quickly, Emma took about another day. But my "runs" problem didn't really let up until the early morning of the 27th. I was borderline serious dehydration. Double doses of Imodium AD finally stopped things. So all in all, we would just like to forget this Christmas. I know it sounds pretty bad. But that's how we feel.

Anyway, we postponed our planned "Christmas Dinner" to New Year's Day - when we could all really enjoy it. And we did. (Except for Missuri's dismal performance against Navy in the Texas Bowl. I'm glad I didn't get tickets.)

A happy, healthy!, and blessed New Year to all of you.