Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!

EEEEYYAAAAAAAA!

You dare to challenge me?!

EYA!

OWWWWWAH - The Golden Dragon will now destroy you!

She blinds her enemies with pure cuteness.

As a master of Kung Fu, I can hover like this all day...

Liam was ready before Will and Ryan and decided to take off with out them. Liam's the small one on the right.

Liam cruising by.

Liam getting the hang of it...almost. Actually, he did really well most of the time until he saw me get the camera out, then he would pay attention to me instead of what he was doing...and wipe out. Like this.

Snowboarding at Sundance for Liam's 8th B-Day!

Liam and his Ski-Snowboard instructor Ryan Dittmar. Ryan is a friend of Will's and they work together. Ryan is an engineer at SMS and is also a professional ski and snowboard instructor. He was nice enough to spend the day with us and teach Liam how to snowboard. Within about 15 minutes, we were on the chair lifts and having a great time

Liam learning the basics of Snowboarding from Ryan. He was lucky to be learning from the best.

All decked out for the slopes.

Liam cruising down the slopes.

The lodge at the top of Sundance, the view from up here was astonishingly beautiful. What a rugged and wonderful wilderness we have here in the Wasatch Mountains.

Looking towards Provo from the top of Sundance Mountain.

Father and Son.

Taking a break.

Someone was not listening to the instructor...

Petersen's came over for Liam's Birthday!

 Liam blowing out the candles on his Sonic Birthday Cake.

Spencer was the best present Liam opened.

Aunt Jill got Liam tape...one of his favorite things in the world.

The cousins eating cake and ice cream.

Liam with his new transformer from Nana.

Ben sword fighting with his dad...Uncle Foo Foo.

Maeby trying on Uncle Foo Foo's glasses.

Liam's Birthday Lunch

We took Liam out to lunch for his 8th birthday at an all you can eat pizza place.

Usually this is the only kind of picture I can get out of Melanie.

Maeby likes to stick her thumb through the pizza to eat it.

Christmas 2008

When Maeby sat on Santa's lap before Christmas, the only thing she asked for was Chinese Noodles. She got them in her stocking and was totally excited, guess what she wanted for breakfast Christmas morning...

Will was in China right before Christmas and got the kids Chinese outfits. They have been wearing them non-stop. Maeby calls it her Kung Fu Panda outfit.

Natalie gave Maeby all of her Barbie toys and she loves them. Thanks Natalie! Here's Maeby making sure Kung Fu Panda gets plenty to eat...and no 10 mile hike before hand.

Maeby was sooooooo excited to open her favorite My Little Pony from Auntie Jill. We can't tell her it's My Little Pony because she says "No, it's not your little pony, it's mine."

We got tired of going outside to get Maeby snow.

Spencer and Maeby coloring together.

I think she's excited! What do you think? Who knew she could make such a strange face...it hardly looks like our daughter!

Mel, Liam and Spencer all got Nintendo DS's for Christmas and a small selection of games. This was designed to ease the pain of a 20 hour plane ride that we were supposed to take right after Christmas.  That was their big present this year.

This is Spencer in his "Dragon Warrior" outfit.

Maeby with her Chinese Noodles.