Gary and Sherri

Fall

2011-09-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

Fall is here....winter on it's way!!

Mom's Uke

2011-09-29T18:51:00.000-07:00

Here is the movie that goes along with the Picture below. Thought everyone would like to see it.

Cluster

2011-09-29T18:30:00.000-07:00

The Hercules Cluster, took this two weeks ago just processed it.

Dumbell

2011-09-20T20:33:00.000-07:00

Latest night photo. Dumbell Nebula. Looks very cold there.

2011-09-09T20:50:00.000-07:00

This land is your land

2011-09-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

Some people can sing just not sure who…...

Angry Birds

2011-09-09T20:30:00.000-07:00

Must make you angry!

Sam the Captain

2011-09-09T20:29:00.000-07:00

Sam was great fun….

Summer at Bretts

2011-09-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

Rolling in the grass. What a fun Summer.

Jill and Camille

2011-09-09T20:24:00.000-07:00

In the water park Spanish Fork

Family

2011-09-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

Sombrero in the Rain! Who is that masked man?

Orion Revisited

2011-09-08T19:57:00.001-07:00

Here is Orion after stacking 4 pictures and processing, not as much color but a lot more detail.

Adromeda Revisited

2011-09-08T19:53:00.001-07:00

I have been playing with the stacking software and processes software. This looks better. Notice the second galaxy in the upper left. Much clearer and Adromeda is beautiful. Next time I want to get 20-30 pictures I can stack and not just 4.

Unknown Galaxy

2011-09-08T19:46:00.000-07:00

When I took this picture the galaxy could not be seen but after I stack three pictures and processed it the galaxy showed up. A nice spiral....I should have written down the name...

Pleiades

2011-09-04T07:23:00.000-07:00

Pleiades star cluster. Processed on left. I think I missed the center. The two blue stars are part of the cluster. There should be seven large stars, the center is lower. I can't see the stars in the view finder. Still learning.

Adromeda

2011-09-04T07:16:00.000-07:00

Have to overexpose to see some of the detail. Notice that it nearly fills the lower half of the picture. the faint fringes are part of the galaxy.

The bright stars are in our galaxy. The fuzz is Andromeda.

Orion

2011-09-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

Processed Orion

The gases are what suns are made of. This is where stars are born.

Andromeda

2011-09-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

This is the raw unprocessed photo of the andromeda galaxy.

Orion Nebula Messier 42

2011-09-04T05:39:00.000-07:00

It was cool and clear and 4:45 am today so I tried to take a few pictures. After a 30 second exposure the picture at right showed up on my camera. This is an uprocessed raw photo. I see what it looks like after stacking and processing. Just wanted to share.

September Moon

2011-09-03T20:07:00.000-07:00

A Medalist!!

2011-08-13T10:16:00.000-07:00

A Medalist!, Third place in her class!

I am really proud of Sherri, she stuck it out

Kept on running and finished great. I love her…..

2011-08-13T09:26:00.001-07:00

Sherri picks up her pace at the end. A great run and a good finish!

2011-08-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

Should be running but doing good, about 2/3 through the race.

2011-08-13T09:00:00.000-07:00

Can you pick her out? Somewhere in the middle of the pack.

2011-08-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

In the pack lining up…She is excited and nervous but ready….

2011-08-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

With the Race just moments away the tension builds

Sherri is ready for the run of her life

A Little cool before the sun is up but she's ready!

2011-08-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

Before the Race, Before the sun's up!!!

2011-08-13T08:52:00.000-07:00

On your Mark

Get Set

Go….

The Race Begins

2011-08-13T08:50:00.001-07:00

The race begins with a rush of humanity...they all start running.....

Moon 2011

2011-08-12T21:21:00.000-07:00

Just took this picture with my Nikon 5100 and Telescope. Thought you would like to see it.

Ginger

2011-08-12T21:14:00.000-07:00

What a beautiful young lady. Can I have a bite?

2011-08-12T21:05:00.000-07:00

Hit that Monkey

2011-08-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Carie what a smile

Jeff and James

2011-08-12T21:03:00.000-07:00

Jeff and James

2011-08-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

Hi Sherri and Mom.

Family 2011 Utah

2011-08-12T21:00:00.000-07:00

Our Family!!!

a city surrounded by water

2010-05-19T16:02:00.000-07:00

This beautiful city has many beaches and bays and the city is built all around them.

This is as close as we could get to the Christus--it was being cleaned and renovated, so they wouldn't let anyone up the mountain.

Rio

2010-05-19T15:14:00.000-07:00

monkeys,

beaches,

geodes
coconuts
and statues

New Member

2010-05-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Aryana's friend who took us to church with her. She hadn't been a member very long, but she was marrying a return missionary from Brazil and then going to the temple later. She was a special girl. She converted her Mom and her Dad was taking the discussions.When we went to church in Goiania, we met a missionary that knew Carwin--actually he lived just down the street from him and was in his ward!

3 hour Barbeque

2010-05-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

We were eating constantly for 3-4 hrs. This is a biscuit with meat inside. Then we had slices of pork, chicken, beef , etc.
The first week we had breakfast, lunch, dinner, and another dinner at 10.00pm.
These little kids loved to speak English to me. She was 3 and had had lessons in school for 1 yr. He was 8 and had had English in school for 5 yrs.

Friends
Preparation

Security

2010-05-18T16:24:00.001-07:00

High fences , electric wires on the tops of the houses and the fences and grates on all of the stores are common. High gates are on all the houses in front and you have to have someone let you in. You're out of luck if noone is home-- or you can use a security code.

Mom Rockin out at the Prom!

2010-05-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

Footloose and Fancy Free.......

Aryana's Friends at the Prom

2010-05-17T21:30:00.000-07:00

Families and Friends

2010-05-17T21:25:00.000-07:00

Aryana's Brother, Mother and Dad. Aunt, Uncle and Cousin.

Beautiful Ladies

2010-05-17T21:21:00.001-07:00

Sherri, Cristina, Danubia, Juliana(cousin), Bianca, Solange, Margarida, Adelia, Jullyana(Aunt) Getting ready to Dance all night.

Prom Night

2010-05-17T21:13:00.001-07:00

Back Row: Gary, Sherri, Jasson(Ary's dad), Cristina (Ary's mother), Solange (Aunt), Arnaldo (uncle).

Front(Arayana's Friends): Bianca, Adelia, Juliana, Margarida

Aryana's Mother

2010-05-17T21:10:00.001-07:00

A great lady and hostess!

Aryana's Dad

2010-05-17T21:07:00.000-07:00

What a character!

Food and Fun

2010-05-17T20:56:00.000-07:00

Lunch before the Graduation. Notice the brain food in the last picture, fish, rice and good food. We had sprite, uva(grape juice) and other juices.

brain food--fish eyes and brains--GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN!

Downtown Goiania from Aryana's Apartment

2010-05-17T20:50:00.000-07:00

Brazil

2010-05-17T20:39:00.001-07:00

First day's in Brazil! Aryana took us to meet her Grandmother. She treated us to a Piano recital. That night we went to a convocation at a sweltering Catholic Church. No air conditioning.

2010-04-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

We were in Denver for Easter with Jeff, Nettie and their beautiful children. We got to see Calvin and his signature 'dance' !!!

As time goes by.....

2009-12-20T16:30:00.000-08:00

My---time has really flown by..as if on wings. This was taken in Feb.(I think) (Thanks Jeff.)Fun times. Now Christmas is upon us again and soon a new year-Wow! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Playing with Lilly

2009-12-19T12:00:00.000-08:00

Lilly misses playing with Jillian and we miss Alisha and her girls also --they were fun!

Playin' at Grandma's

2009-12-19T11:45:00.000-08:00

This was a fun day-playing.

Few More Pictures

2009-12-17T19:51:00.000-08:00

Guess what the first picture is?

Polar Express

2009-12-17T19:16:00.000-08:00

POLAR EXPRESS (Heber Creeper)

Our trip to the North Pole somewhere near Deer Creek. Fun for the Children. Got to see Santa, helpers, Mrs. Claus and lots of snow on an old train car.

more Missouri.....

2009-10-22T19:45:00.000-07:00

Interesting....the temple of the Reorganized Church--it is built like a snail 0r mullosk because that is the best structure in nature????

A Holy Land....

A small room in the Carthage Jail and the jailhouse where you can still see the bullet holes in the walls. The prophet fell out of the second story window.

2009-10-22T19:36:00.000-07:00

The original angel on the temple.

Sunstone.

Missouri-the land beautiful!

Nauvoo temple.

2009-10-22T19:16:00.000-07:00

More Missouri pictures.

Little Gracie May on her blessing day.

Adam-ondi-ahman Ahman was the name by which God was known to Adam.(an interesting tidbit) Adam-on-di-ahman--the place where Adam dwelt. It is beautiful!

2009-10-22T19:05:00.001-07:00

One small room in Carthage Jail.

The family cemetary in Nauvoo.

Here are some more pictures from our Missouri trip.

2009-10-22T18:37:00.000-07:00

Here you go cott-our Missouri trip in June or July. BTW we are so-o glad that you decided to come to Provo for your clinicals! W e're excited!

Little Gracie May on her blessing day!

Liberty Jail and Adamondiamin(spelling is off)

Liberty Jail was so interesting--walls about 4 feet thick with only a little hole to the outside. There were rocks on the roof, so escape was virtually impossible. They had only a small blanket for warmth in the winter and it wasn't tall enough for the prophet to stand up straight.

This is where D&C 121,122,123 were revealed to Joseph. I love our prophet and I know he was a true prophet!

2009-08-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

Sherri is hoofing it again. This time good enough for third place in Salem Days Talent show!!!

A couple of pictures from Lanny and Lynnete's 50th. Lot's of Crockett's!!

Also a video of the Salem Day's fireworks. It was really good too....

Yippee!

2009-05-25T13:03:00.000-07:00

Gardening special

strawberries!

Lilly was a BIG

hit!!!

every morning, afternoon and evening.

Got a visit from Jeff and Nettie and family this weekend--lots of fun!

Sherri Dances Again

2009-05-24T08:46:00.000-07:00

This past Thursday Sherri had a Dance Recital. Jeff, Nettie, Morgan, Calvin, Brett, Sarah, Olivia, Clare and Gary got to see Sherri dance four times. It was fun and Sherri had fun too!! I am not a long writer-Gary Thought everyone would like to see Sherri's dances.

Aspen Retreat

2008-10-06T11:00:00.001-07:00

We went up to Aspen Grove over the weekend to get away from it all. The trees were all turning colors- it was the perfect weekend! We decided to go on a hike up to the falls to see all the spectacular colors!

The hike took about an hour over pretty rough terrain, but we made it! Whew!

By the time we got there, it was time to turn back and go to the next workshop and dinner. Besides it was turning dark and we didn't want to be there at dark.

We had some speakers, which were very good and then we had time to explore. They had miniture golf, shuffle board, a rope course(Gary and I are too bottom-heavy for that)ping pong, pool, swimming pool, hikes, a playground for the kids , a cowboy and Indian village, and of course raquetball. They had meals all prepared for us too. Yeah! So we just relaxed!

It was quite a weekend!

The End!

more....

2008-06-09T12:29:00.001-07:00

Oops!

Hoofin it -Video

2008-06-09T11:56:00.000-07:00

Everyone is concentrating, except Ranae-she's having a good ol' time.

Hoofin it

2008-06-09T10:39:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of pics from my little tap recital. (It started out as just exercise and fun, but it turned into this! (Sorry it took so long in coming--most of the pics and videos didn't turn out 'cause I was in the back row behind people in a couple of the dances and Gary was over in the corner on one side and I was on the other side--but we'll work at it and see if we can get some video) The teacher is in the ty-dyed shirt.

Hoofin it

2008-06-09T10:23:00.001-07:00

Rain, rain go away....

2008-06-07T12:05:00.000-07:00

Although I'm really thankful for all the rain, our garden looks really sad. We wanted to wait until it quit raining to put in our garden--we had a few days of sunshine--then it rained some more----whew. Our garden has a few new leaves on the plants, but that it all--I'm not sure if it because of all the rain or because it needs nitrogen that the leaves are yellow.I don't know if there will be enough sunshine now to have a long enough growing season for the garden????(To top it all off, some elk walked through our garden--luckily the plants were small enough, they missed every0ne with their hooves! It's time for a fence!)

Merry Christmas!

2008-04-15T17:29:00.001-07:00

Will this snow ever stop????

Circle of Doors

2008-04-12T07:38:00.000-07:00

Just got through reading 'Circle of Doors' written by my cousin, Ranse. It is his first attempt at publishing, but it is really good. The first part is kinda slow, but then it really stretches your imagination and is really good. It has quite a bit of doctrine in it and some people may think its weird, but if it keeps me captivated it must be good! (Aunt Polly gave it to me for Christmas and I just finished it. After I got half way through it only took me 4 days to finish it; probably because my neighbor wants to read it and so I hurried.)(This is coming from someone who didn't like the Harry Potter books and is not an avid reader.)

Not again!

2008-04-12T07:15:00.000-07:00

Just trying to catch up on what's been happening. We are still getting snow!!
Winter doesn't want spring to get here. Summer will happen and spring will probably be skipped.
(But the temp is supposed to be up to 70 next week)(Can't wait to go to Ariz.)

I've had fungus in my toes and at Christmas Ray told me to soak my toes in vinegar and it would kill the fungus. Well, I don't think I did it diligently enough and it kinda worked. Then I heard on the radio that Listerine has the properties in it to kill fungus, so I tried that. After 2 months of doing these ,I just broke down and got some fungus killer at Walmart, but it takes a month too! I should just break down and get some antibiotics from the doc!

We sure enjoyed Jeff's family when they were here, but I only took a few pictures(I'm terrible!) Morgon sure had fun making 'snow angels ' in the snow though.

Winter again!

2008-02-14T09:13:00.000-08:00

I thought we were through with winter for awhile; but alas, we got a BIGsnowstorm last night. It was blizzard conditions--it took Gary 4 hours to get home from the airport; people ran out of gas because they were stalled in their cars on the freeway. a busload of kids didn't make it home by 9:00 and so they had to walk back to the elementary school and stay the night. IN the second picture,Gary is in there somewhere snowblowing. We must have received 8+ inches! I'm sick of snow and want spring! I can only hope!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

2008-02-14T09:06:00.000-08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Gary printed these cards for me and put them everywhere! even in the shower, and the washer, computer,dishwasher,etc.

Thanks to Sam and Morgon, too. I hope everyone has a super day!

update

2008-02-14T08:02:00.000-08:00

Someone asked for a picture of my Christmas tree; well here it is-finally.

And a picture of the room that we are finishing(Gary and I ARE NOT room contractors by a big margin so it's taking us forever--one hour at a time is all we can muster if even that! After Ray was here; it went 2 whole weeks before we even did anything(we were so sick of it!) This is the only picture I have--the other pictures will not download onto the computer for some reason--anyway HAPPY VALENTINES DAY (I hope all received their valentines(I sent everyone one; but some did not go through, I''m afraid-let me know if someone didn't receive one.)

Aryana

2008-02-12T11:42:00.001-08:00

Aryana was here. We had loads of fun shopping,shopping,shopping. Everyday shopping! She had lots and lots of things to get for her friends in Brazil. We finally found the kinsei shoes that she was looking for.(They only sell them in running stores--they are the top of the line Asics shoes and they cost $800 in Brazil) She also had fun in Victorias Secret where she must have gotten close to $200 worth of stuff. She eventually had to buy a new suitcase to take the stuff home in and it weighed 49 pounds! We made chocolate chip cookies with lots of chocolate chips in them; but the visit was too short!

2008-01-11T06:50:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the pictures from Christmas of the lights of Salem and Spanish Fork. The one picture is of Salem pond where they had floating Christmas trees.

It was a beautiful White Christmas!

P.S.

2007-11-27T07:56:00.000-08:00

I'm also grateful for each new day that we have to try to do better at something.

Remembering Gratitude

2007-11-27T07:34:00.000-08:00

Yes,it is important to remember your blessings --it gives us more of a sense of gratefulness in our lives and since everyone seems to have blogged about what they're thankful for --here goes:

I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful that all of our sons and a daughter have truly found their eternal companions and I'm thankful for the sweet daughters and son that they are. I'm thankful for ALL of our family-even Amy with her struggles.I'm also very grateful for all of oour grandchildren!What a joy they are!

I'm thankful for the experiences that I have had in life and the lessons that I have learned.

I'm thankful for Utah and the opportunities that we enjoy here.

I'm thankful for the job that we have and our finacial situation.

I'm thankful for our home , food, and warm clothes., and cars.

I'm thankful for the teachings of the church--I don't know where I would be without it.(probably a bum!)I'm very grateful for the atonement and revelation that we receive daily????

I'M GRATEFUL FOR TAP!-IT MAKES ME HAPPY!

I'm grateful that we have people willing to sacrifice for us in the service to our U.S A.

Go Fish???

2007-11-12T10:28:00.000-08:00

Yesterday dad and Scott went fishing again. ( Dad had heard that there were lots of fish in Scofield and many anglers caught alot, so they went) Dad and Scott were out there for 4-5 hours and didn't catch a thing, while the person next to them kept reeling them in-BIG ones too! How disgusting! I told them they need to take some fishing lessons--there is a real skill to it-- like getting out there early?! and maybe 'jerking' slightly when you get a nibble???(G'ma Tomlinson could have taught them a thing or too!)(The fish are probably laughing at them.)

I've been bitten too!!!

2007-11-12T07:57:00.000-08:00

I've been bitten by the football game bug! I never thought that I would be a football fan--but I absolutely LOVE them.( I guess it comes from having 5 boys) It's all exciting-whether it's the Cougar band playing "Heyyyyy Baby!"; or Cosmo doing his tricks(last time he did about 10 front handstands in a row ( Iguess thats what you call them); or the cheerleaders doing their thing; or people just having fun(last game the kids in our section were throwing paper airplanes and having a contest to where they would land). And of course, there is the game (playing to a sellout crowd of 65,000 about) which is exciting in itself. It's just good clean fun!

P.S.(There's just something about being amongst people with all the same values.)

Conference Weekend

2007-10-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

Conference Weekend, Jon and his family were up for a visit. We sure enjoyed them -Sam is a "corker". Kristen really had an influence on me to organize my drawers a little. "A place for everything and everything in it's place"

right?

Cousins--they sure had fun together--they love the built-in stereo place. It makes a nice little cubby just right for tots.

King of the Mountain!!!

Hmmm-the newspaper is really interesting today.

Fishing????

2007-09-07T20:44:00.001-07:00

You call this fishing? Actually it was a great day in the moutains at Tibble. Scott, Britta, Sherri and I(DAD) went fishing on labor day. The water was low and the moss was thick. Dad caught one brown and we both caught lots of moss. Scott got the biggest...moss that is. Britta and Sherri laid around in the sun and read books.

Rainbows

2007-09-07T20:38:00.000-07:00

We got rain! We got rainbows! Yeah!!! We got lightning and thunder!!! It really brought back memories of Utah before we moved. We sure love the mountains and the rain.

Catching up

2007-08-28T20:29:00.000-07:00

This last week I hosted at Education Week at BYU--What a spiritual feast! (Actually the whole theme around the classes was :how to listen to the Spirit.)

Dad's birthday. His new leather computer case --with wheels!

Sarah's creative cake.

This is Scott in Amy's new car--which she bought.(She ran over a high median in the highway which she didn't see and popped her tires, broke her windshield and deployed her airbags. (She didn't realize how expensive a new car could be, but now she knows.)It's nice, don't you agree?

I got new batteries and let her take my camera to Lake Tahoe for Ashley Smith's wedding--hence,the pictures. Now you should see more blogs.

Class Reunion

2007-08-28T19:59:00.001-07:00

Who are all those 'old' people? This is my graduating class at Valley High School in Ida. I think there were 54 who graduated in all.

'Little boy' Peterson

2007-08-10T14:53:00.000-07:00

This is Jeff and Nettie's new bundle of joy.

Challenged

2007-06-18T12:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry we don't blog more. Every time I go to use my camera, the batteries in it are exhausted! I don't even use it that much! I don't know what's up--guess I better read my manual if I can even find it!Sometimes posting pics is a pain--other times it goes very smoothly--I just need to use it more, I guess, so I can figure out what I'm doing.

New Home

2007-06-17T14:53:00.000-07:00

This is our new home in Salem, Ut. We've been here for a week now and it is just begining to feel like we are not visiting! We still have alot of boxes out in the garage and the house is in shambles, but anyone is welcome anytime!

Yea-- mountains, and green grass and trees that are healthy!

More Vacation Photos

2007-05-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

Just kids! back;Jon,Amy,James,Dad,Brett,Alisha;front;Scott,Jeff, Mom
intriguing game
Sharing Cheetos..

Surfn' buddies
Sharing licorice

James' back yard. A real park....

Help

2007-04-11T07:29:00.000-07:00

Whew

I think these first seven are Jeff's + the 2 albums.

I think these last ones are Brett's.

Also I have 3 small boxes of cards ( I think on of them has Jeff's writing on it) + 4 long boxs without any witing on them.

Do any of the other boys have any? Jon, James, or

This is a good one!

2007-04-05T12:43:00.000-07:00

Finding these old pictures sure is fun-Sherri. This is Alisha at a Peterson reunion.....

youngun'

2007-04-01T22:17:00.000-07:00

YOu asked for it! Guess who???

Tongue Pic's

2007-04-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

Guess Who??

Is the tongue thing a Peterson trait?

Old Pictures

2007-04-01T14:43:00.000-07:00

I was going through some old pictures and thought all would like to see them.

CQ CQ CQ This is KE7KPT CQ Kilo Echo 7 Kilo Papa Tango

2007-03-04T18:25:00.000-08:00

Got my antenna up to 32 feet and have been CQing. Contacted North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Edmonton Canada, and California. Works much better hope the covenants in Carson River don't make me take it down.

I passed the element 4 test last Saturday (February 24th). Which means I am now an amateur extra ham operator and have all frequency privileges

Budding Artists

2007-03-04T17:50:00.000-08:00

I 'subbed' last week for 4 days while the teacher was recuperating from pneumonia. The kids got to know me and me them. She didn't have any 'sub' notes, so I 'winged' it for the most part. She did come in the first couple of days and gave me some work sheets to copy off;but we got along pretty good and they learned something, I hope!!!

Fallon's coming up!

2007-02-18T20:50:00.000-08:00

We have new colored comics on Sundays now!

This is a very sad comic! Mom cried......

Charlie Brown didn't get any valentines....boo hoo!