Wow I am posting my First blog.

This year has been a very busy year for us! two moves a new baby and fun vacations. Matt biked in the hoodoo 500 in sept. 47 hours with only 3 hours of sleep and 30,000 feet of elevation. one month later he ran the javilina 100 23 hours straight in the arizona desert. He is an amazing athlete and very determined! Kaiya inherited this attribute from here dad! She is in Kindergarten and loves it! She is in Hip hop and ballet. She loves to pretend she is a teenager, loves to sing and dance. She lost her first tooth and is quite the fashion Queen! Taj is our easy goin guy! Peterson trait. He loves movies, horses, dogs and sharks! He often makes us laugh with the cute little things he says. He is three years old and loves to just play at home! Marley 6 months now and is crawling all over the place. She is such a happy baby! Always smiling! She is our best baby yet! Alissa loves being a mom and recently has gotten in to yoga. We just got back from a trip to costa rica. It was amazing! We played at the beach, went zip lining, Horse back riding, saw monkeys, crocodiles, and iguanas. We had quite the adventure driving on dirt roads, two flat tires, our car broken into( some hippies saw the guy throw his bear bottle through our window. They chased him down and beat him up and got matts cell phone back!) The Life in Costa rica was a great reminder of what is really important in life and it is family and friends and not the material things in the world. We are so greatful we had the opportunity to go! Life is still busy we are building a new home and hopefully will be moving in the next couple of weeks. I am anxious to get settled in and have life calm down a bit.
Here are a few picts from ours trip.

Marleys first time at the beach. She loved eating the sand!

Kaiya swimming at the arco iris. She has bcome quite the little fish.

At the butterfly gardens in Arenal

This is the only surfboard taj would get on.
He says " you fall in the water when you surf and
then you get eaten by a shark!"

In Arenal the resort we stayed at had the
fastest water slides in the world! Matt
was having more fun than the kids!

We went Kaiaking in Samara. This beach also had
really small waves so Alissa could surf!