Craving Music

The radio is taunting me, "Listen between 6am and 6pm and you can win tickets to see Jason Mraz in HAWAII." As they play all of my favorite Jason Mraz songs, I am somewhere between weeping and strangling the radio. I know I have a zero percent chance of winning a trip to anywhere, let alone a tropical island. It's just cruel to put ads like that on the radio.

In Bowmans (grocery store), the other day, I saw the poster advertising Davis High School's upcoming Prom. They are finally back at the Utah State Capitol for the first time since 2003, and their theme is "You Have Stolen My Heart." (An amazing song by the band Dashboard Confessionals.) Davis always picks a song to be the theme for each dance, and normally they are terribly lame. But I have to admit I got a little jealous of all those little Davis girls, this prom. Picking out their dresses, getting all excited, riding to the capital to dance to Dashboard. Sometimes I really miss High School.

So I'll do the best I can. Pop in my Jason Mraz or Dashboard Confessionals CD, put on my headphones, and drown out reality. I might just imagine myself at the Prom. If I imagine REALLY hard, I could even end up in Hawaii. Oh I am craving music. Like the deserts miss the rain, I tell ya.

Canon Man-n

This picture is the essence of Canon. A ball, a car, and a big mess; the story of every day with my son. Oh, how I love him, that little tornado.

Sibling News

My little brother, Cameron Mortensen, received his call yesterday to the Toronto, Canada West Mission. He will be entering the MTC on Wed. June 18th. I am so excited for him because I know that he loves this church and that he will give his whole soul to this calling. I am proud of my little brother for the man that he has become. Yay Cam!

My siblings are growing up and I love them so.

Van Driver, "Move that Van!"

The primary reason I wanted to make a post today was to let everyone and anyone that reads this blog know that WE BOUGHT A HOME!!!!! Well, we haven't closed yet so don't get too excited, but I think we have a good chance. Yeah, I know,  we didn't think we'd ever get one either, but hey, I guess we're proof that dreams can come true. 

Amber and I were watching Extreme Home Makeover addition tonight and during the famous part were they say "Bus driver, Move that Bus" (which is when for some embarrassing reason I always seem to cry,) I said to Amber, "Before we can move into our house we need to put a bus in front of it."  Well, since we don't have a Bus or know any family members to borrow one from we'll just have to use our Mini-van and we'll get all the neighbors (we don't know any neighbors, but they would come anyway because who doesn't like to gather together and yell in unison)  to come out and yell with us "Van driver, Move that Van!".  

I'll post some pictures of our new home later if everything goes well.  Once we've moved in it'll look better. 

Look forward to hearing more from me. I really like writing. 

Back Home

We moved back and it feels good. Blogger is much more my style, and this is the last move, I promise.

Siblings

I love that my kids are friends. A few nights ago, we went in to check on the kids and found Taesya sleeping in Canon’s bed. It was cute.

Quite a week

This week has seemed like one dramatic turn after another. It all started when Canon hit his nose on Taesya’s bedframe. The plastic surgeon sewed him up and Canon’s doing just fine now. We’ll make sure to tell him that he had a “nose job” before age 2.


Luckily Taesya’s unfortunate event did not include pain. She decided to cut her own hair this week. Maybe it would have turned out more evenly bald, if I’d let her finish. But for now, we will have ourselves a good laugh at her premature hairloss.

Those were the top two. Kids keep you on your toes.

Bad things happen

Never thought it would happen to me, but it did. We had a miscarriage. We’re not pregnant anymore. People say it will take time to feel better, we’re doing the best we can. Life is really not what you expect sometimes.

2007 - Christmas Letter

Happy Holidays to all our Family and Friends! It seems like we haven’t seen some of you for a long time, but we hope that one by one, we can get a hold of each of you in some way in 2008. We love you so!It was a big year for our son, Canon. Well, it was his first year to be exact, he turned one in October; he grew from an unhappy newborn to a silly little boy this year. Sitting, then crawling, then walking – he’s achieved remarkable goals. Canon loves balls, dogs, and eating all the time. Another of Canon’s favorites is his sister Taesya.Taesya went to a castle with a star on the top. Canon was there because he was a prince. And it was so be-utiful there. At least that’s what Taesya says; she loves to imagine life as a princess and to talk of pretty things. She is such a dramatic little 2 year old, who grew a lot this year. She grew in height, imagination, and vocabulary. She would like to wish each of you a “Holly, Jolly Christmas!”I (Amber) had a memorable year, checking things off my todo list from years ago. I danced and sang in a musical for the first time since high school. I ran in my very first 5K alongside my friend Nicki Preece. These are things I thought might never happen, and they made me feel like Amber again. I also had a great semester at Weber State this fall. I want to thank those who supported me this year; I had a ton of help. Most of all from Ben.Benjamin has gone to work every morning and come home every night. I can’t thank him enough for providing for us, and for being such a present and loving father. We had a great vacation with Ben this year. He took a long break from work and we spent time together as a family. We visited the Discovery Gateway one day, which was a lot of fun. We went on walks, saw a movie, shopped together, mostly we just did whatever we felt like. It was a great vacation.We’re enjoying our young little family and all the experiences that come with it. Merry Christmas and we hope you have a wonderful 2008! We love you all.Ben, Amber, Taesya, and Canon Peck

Christmas Cards and Writing Blogs

I’m really glad we have this blog. It helps us to sit down and write out things that are happening in our lives. I just need to do it more often. Amber is much better at these types of things.

I was thinking today about our family Christmas card and if we should be making a bigger deal out of it or not. Currently we send a card to just our families. Should start making a card mailing list that we send out card to friends and family? Should I start trying to make them look fancier or do we just keep doing it the way we’ve always done it? I think we’ll just keep doing it the way we’ve always done it.

P.S. I heard a really funny Real Men of Genius the other day about this Christmas card thing on 107.9 the mix. Listen to the mix and maybe they’ll play it again.