The Peterson Cork Board

Paper Rose Tutorial

2011-06-22T21:24:00.001-07:00

Here is the tutorial for the paper roses. I thought this would be the easiest way to view it step by step! Can't wait to see what you make! I think that with a wired ribbon, you could make a cute hair bow out of this pattern.

are we tired of me yet?

2011-04-29T21:22:00.000-07:00

Woo Wee! I had an awesome week! Truly magnificent! I was hoping that after all the activity of our family Easter week things would calm down, but it was not to be. This week was hectic and Josie and I found out yesterday that they want us to make 400 Mickey Mouse cupcakes for the employee appreciation dinner next week - YIKES! But more on that next week! Here are some photos from this week!

Our awesome manager Janice threw us all a big birthday party since so many of us have birthdays in the summer. We decorated and played some really fun games and we had cake. What? Cake? I know you are asking if I made it - kind of! Josie and I made it together and we make an excellent team if I do say so.....and I do! We came back to work Thursday night about 6 and didn't leave until after midnight. It was a lot of work but the cake turned out so adorable! Here is a little glimpse at the mess we made!

Here is the back of our cake

And here is Josie, me and Myrtle! Isn't she CUTE!

I love her!

(if you cannot tell I am on my tippy toes and Josie is squattin' down!!!)

I have a better picture of her glasses on my camera, but I left that in my locker at work and I am too lazy to go back and get them! They are super sparkley! We covered them in our hot pink fairy glitter. She was adorable - 7 layers of cake on this sweet little lady. The student workers were exstatic when they saw me cutting them all slices of her for their Friday treat!

Now some boring work pictures!

Here is my gigantic bowl of fried rice. This stuff is awesome to stir! We were making it all in our 80 gallon pot but it was such a pain to stir all that heavy rice. And by the time it got up to temp the peas were all smashed and the celery was like mush. So Josie had me steam it one week and it turned out so much better!

Josie with her amazing crafting talent made this for the eating lounge. It adds so much to this sterile room, I love looking at it! Next year she wants to change it with the seasons which will be way fun!

Not a great picture but this is me at the 80 gallon pot starting my cheese sauce for mac n cheese.

This is Theresa, she is our cashier, safety patrol, student worker advisory lady, dairy orderer and breakfast maker all rolled into one! This woman can do it all!! This is her helping the students get breakfast all ready to serve. I believe we made breakfast burritos that day!

And lastly, this has nothing to do with work but I wanted to show you the awesome chair covers that Josie so skillfully made. When I first saw these pictures on her facebook I didn't even recognize that they were ours! I think she said there were four layers of fabric covers on these chairs, this stripey one being the last!

I found some drapes on mega clearance at Wally-World and just fell in l.o.v.e with the fabric. They make all the difference in my dining room! I wish I would have taken a before and after of that! Oh well, you get the idea! We love our new chairs!

Anyway, that is all from me! Hope y'all had a great week! We miss ya like crazies!!!!! Hope to be able to plan a trip again soon! Love you all so much!

Pirate Treasure

2011-04-03T02:30:00.000-07:00

Okay family....you ready for picture overload? I will probably have doubles of some of these. It has taken me almost 6 hours to complete this cake - and it is almost 3 in the morning, thats 4 your time. I am so tired! BUT! I wanted to post this AMAZING cake we made! You are going to be so impressed I just know it!

Some of the bits for the cakes:

Curtis painting on the "X".....

The finished island! COOL HUH?!!

Here is a little shot of an ocean creature:

And here is the 100% finished cake - What do you think?

work sharing

2011-03-01T15:21:00.001-08:00

Hey everybodee! Mom mentioned putting together a bi-weekly newsletter to send out through email and then I remembered this little site that we have! I wanted to share some photos of my job.....I know, I know, calm down, it IS going to be ever so exciting!

This is the first cake I did for the schools.
Caitlyn's school was having it's birthday, the schools here
are all named after people, so her school is named after
Marilyn Wilson.

This is Dennis, he works in the dish room. This was his
Halloween costume.....can you guess who he is?

That is Theresa in the background at the window.

(MEATLOAF)

Meet Josie!
She was frosting some sheet cakes to go
out to the elementary schools. We switch off every six
week menu cycle. I was cooking the main dishes
so she was doing desserts.

Josie came from behind and asked me to sample her

frosting while shoving it in my face!

These are some of the cuppies I made for
catering. They did all the food for the district
Christmas party.

Meet Melanie!
She came from another middle school as part of the
Cooks Training Program. This was our spaghetti day.
Those are our two biggest pots, the 80 and 60 gallon.
The 40 is just to the left. These are a few of the
tomato cans........

....and here a few more!
I won't post the other two I promise, just picture

this photo four times and you have a good idea how many we go through!

Here is our fajita chicken line....well half of it!
Josie makes yummy fajita chicken!

When we came back from lunch the other day we found this strange white trail on the floor going through the kitchen, out the back door and across the cement outside and then it just ended. It was sooooo weird! We couldn't figure out what is was or where it came from.....

It was partially me! I had made cheesecakes earlier that day and had thrown my empty whip topping containers into the garbage - like any good lunch lady! When we were at lunch the garbage man came and took out the trash apparently no knowing there was a hole in the bag and he dragged the thing through the whole kitchen! That stuff was sooooo hard to mop off the floor!

So there are a few pictures of me as a lunch lady!
I love my job!

I start the new cooking cycle starts this next week so I am hoping to snap more pictures of things I cook and to share them! Hopefully all of you will be able to at some point come and visit us and you can have some school lunch with me!

It is amazing how much work and planning goes into making school lunch each day!

I just never imagined!

Love you all and miss you all!

REEE REEEE REEEE REEEE REEEE

2010-10-17T21:36:00.000-07:00

Will someone call Curtis and convince him to do a remake of "Psycho" with me this weekend? ARGH! Why is he so stubborn, I mean, I told him I wasn't going to really stab him with the knife! GOSH-A!

GET elise a WALMART gc

2010-01-18T15:34:00.001-08:00

Okay, so in lie (sp) of sending Elise a bunch of stuff, we are getting her a Walmart gc. So send me your money family! SEND IT!! I am extending the deadline for one more week. Next monday, JANUARY 25, Aaron's b-day.

bless you all!

Its a new dawn

2010-01-01T19:53:00.000-08:00

YO EveryBODY!
So I thought I'd start this up again. Its a new year which means new goals. I thought it would be great to do a "lets all get healthy" kind of contest/team. No pressure for any of us to lose weight or anything, I just want to share changes we are making in our lives to live happier, healthier lives, whether its sharing a healthy recipe, telling of a new hobby, whatever.

So this year my goal is to stop focusing on how I LOOK and instead, how I feel. I want to take better care of myself. Get more sleep, eat better, play more.

What about you guys?

2009-08-11T11:30:00.001-07:00

WHERE IS EVERYONE!?

not really news...

2009-07-11T08:07:00.000-07:00

I have probably told everyone already, but what the heck, I'll post it too!

I have two job interviews next week with Baskin Robbins cake decorating....wish me luck!!

subtle butt

2009-06-21T15:29:00.001-07:00

Something we could all use, especially "Subtle Butt

http://www.garmentguard.com/

...of all the things i've lost....

2009-06-20T11:41:00.000-07:00

....i think i will miss my garden the most.....

yawning 101

2009-06-20T02:43:00.001-07:00

Yawns can be really boring. So I like to spice mine up. I don't have to do much, since my mouth is huge and when I yawn it's like my jaw unhinges and I swallow space and time.

I don't know about you, but I always have to make a sound when I yawn. I had a boss that would get so mad at me for doing this (plus, I didn't cover my mouth) and she acted like I was punching her grandma in the face. She was so personally offended by my "bad manners". I was like, "Listen lady, your job isn't to attack my yawning habits. So back off." My last day on the job I should've walked into her office, stood on her desk, and with my arm raised like a Shakespearean actor, and with great gusto, unleashed the biggest yawn I could've mustered.

ANYWAYS.....lets not go off on any more tangents....

Here are some things I like to do to make a yawn something worth looking forward to:

-add some vibrato to the end. The more operatic the better

-smack your lips at the end like you just ate some yummy pie. Like this "aaaaaahhhhhhhhh...num num num"

-my personal favorite is to throw in a chewbacca noise at the end. It always catches people by surprise

-yawning takes your mouth to its very limits, so while your mouth is stretched as far as it possibly can go, take it a step further and widen your eyes and flare your nostrils. Maybe even add a little shaking so it looks like it's almost painful to get out.

-on the exhale part of the yawn, the "ahhhhh" part, just scream bloody murder.

-inhale: raise both arms above your head while wiggling fingers exhale: lower back down. bow.

Do you have any more ways to make a yawn more fulfilling?

When Thomas at some beans...

2009-06-20T02:42:00.001-07:00

they knew the world was at its end.

And so...

2009-06-19T23:45:00.001-07:00

They all lived happily ever after... The End.

I'm glad...

2009-06-19T12:38:00.001-07:00

It's Friday!!!

I wish...

2009-06-18T23:42:00.001-07:00

cotton was a monkey...

i like...

2009-06-18T23:41:00.001-07:00

rock band!

{ I LIKE }

2009-06-18T22:09:00.000-07:00

my painted toes

I like

2009-06-18T13:29:00.000-07:00

Broccoli!

2009-06-12T09:13:00.000-07:00

WATCH ME

dear future me

2009-06-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

OH YAH! I heard about this awesome website called futureme.org where you can write yourself a letter to be emailed to you in the future. I wrote myself one for a year from now with the goals I would like to have accommplished by that time.

Pretty cool :)

Gas of the pass

2009-06-04T12:52:00.000-07:00

Pass the gas. (What is it about that phrase that is sooo funny? I never tire of it)

So I've lost an inch off every part of my body since I started the 3 hour thing! Yay. And I've even cheated. (1,000 calorie malt, anyone? Skookie, anyone? :) I really really like it. Love the food.

Pass gas.

Also, what about our trip to disneyland in November, guys? We are going for sure! Tom and I really think we NEED to do it because life is just going to get busier. Even if I'm pregnant during it I don't care. I just want to hang with my fam and go on a trip.

Pass gas.

Also, mom, where the heck are you? This blog was YOUR idea in the first place! CONTRIBUTE! :)

Pass gas.

Also, how about the pretty good news about mom? *CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!! We love you mom! You're a fighter and a survivor!

Pass gas.

Mae woke up in the middle of the night crying last night and said "Mom I want my grandma! I can't play with my grandma anymore!" I'm guessing she had a dream she was playing with grandma, woke up, and realized she was gone. hee hee

Pass gas.

My breasts are sore.

Pass gas.

Flactoids

2009-06-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

The other day Caitlyn was asking me about the flactoids in our garden. I just listened to her, thinking she either misheard something Curtis or I said or that she was just making up words again. Then tonight Greg asked me is Caitlyn had told me anything about flactoids and I said yes andd started to tell him I wasn't sure where she got it from, thinking she had been talking to him about flactoids recently as well. Then I noticed a he was laughing. Oh yes, Greg had taught her all about flactoids - they are little sticks in the yard that help keep some creature that I can't remember the name of out of the yard. So tonight I watched as he and Caitlyn went on a grand adventure in the yard. At some point he was stuck int he grass because of the Kaboosles and then he caught some creature called a Spectire or something like that and that are sleeping when they fly through our yards and that is how he caught one! They were playing like this for about 20 minutes! It was so cute! She loved it! And I thoroughly entertained. I think we will be making playdates more often for those two! It was sad when the two adventures had to go inside and go to bed :(

I am...

2009-06-01T13:51:00.000-07:00

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.

2009-05-31T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hi. It might be due to some weird factors or our scale is ridonkulous but apparently I lost ten pounds last month. I exercised a little bit. The end.

food inc.

2009-05-28T22:57:00.001-07:00

avocados and black butts

2009-05-28T22:28:00.001-07:00

Speakin of Avocados and naked black rumps, here is one of my favorite foods. I made it up, although I really doubt I'm the first to do it.

Sliced avocado, sliced tomatoe, little salt, little peppa, enjoy!

YUM

oh, and as for the naked black rump, I got nothin.

2009-05-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOSH I FOUND IT!!! I watched this documentary one night when I was working at Fox 13 as the overnight desk/photographer.
I'm not kidding, it has made me hungry for hot dogs ever since.

I apologize if your hunger for hot dogs will never be sated again.

Love over Avacados

2009-05-28T20:55:00.000-07:00

Okay, this picture is just making my brain go "WHA!", but it has an avacado in it so it will pertain to my story!

The other day I was at Reams grocery shopping and was headed over to grab a few of these yummy things! And what to my surprise but did I find a skankily dressed young woman giggling to much older man.

"Oh (giggle giggle) do you squeeze them to see how ripe they are?"

"Yes!"

"Oh (giggle giggle) I never knew that (giggle giggle)"

"Oh!"

And so on and so forth went this cute little couples conversation, "where do you work?" "I own my own company" "wow" " yes me and my brother-in-law own it" blah blah blah. So this little love/giggle fest kept me from attaining the veg I was in need of, so off I went to get my fish. But somehow that coupld followed me around the store, giggling and making flirtatious comments. I could hardly stand it and was ready to just leave, so as I traveled to the front of the store to join the long ques of people, I noticed them once again. They were now exchanging numbers. The old man fumbled briefly to find a card, worried I think that if he hesitated a moment longer this young "lady" might realize what she was doing. Much to the delight of both their raging hormones, he was able to find his card. A few more giggles, a little grocery purchase and the trophy was out the door. The man was all smiles. I watched his smile grow bigger as I am sure he imagined what he was going to tell his children, "we found our love over avacados."

How about...

2009-05-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

The Peterson Cork Board?

My Lunch

2009-05-27T10:47:00.000-07:00

By Aaron W. Peterson

3 lbs

2009-05-27T09:08:00.001-07:00

So I mentioned on my last post that I had started the 3 hour diet on Sunday. Today I was thinking,"there is no way this is working. I'm eating so much food and so much GOOD food (like cheese and cookies) it's impossible." Jorge promises you that you will lose 10 lbs in the first 14 days, which is a good amount. So this morning I weighed myself. I have lost three pounds in the last three days. Um, that's awesome. Even if I didn't want to lose weight, I would still follow this eating plan, because honestly, it's so realistic, something you can do the rest of your life, and soooo good. Go get the cook book! its nummy.....

3 hour "diet"

2009-05-24T16:14:00.000-07:00

Okay, here I go. So I started the 3 hour diet eating plan yesterday, and so far I've LOVED everything I've made. I love his cookbook and I think it was a great investment. Plus, he has four different eating plans you can follow: meat lover, carb lover, veggie lover, and healthy heart. Well, I'm a carb lover, so any "diet" that cuts out carbs I'll stick to for about one meal and then its over. And it has plenty of yummy stuff in it that I love, like cheese :)

This morning I had the Breakfast Banana Split. It sounds kind of weird, but I assure you, I was literally licking the plate (I'm not kidding)

(for one serving)

1 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt

1/2 teaspoon flaxseed oil

1 small, ripe banana

1 Tbsp peanut butter

1 1/2 Tbsp wheat germ

1 6-ounce glass skim milk

1. Mix together the yogurt and the flaxseed oil in a bowl

2. Split the banana in half lengthwise and spread with peanut butter

3. Top with the yogurt mixture and sprinkle wheat germ

4. Eat up with a glass of cold milk

It was seriously soooo good!

I also made super easy tortilla pizzas for lunch today, and they were a hit:

(4 servings)

Four 6-inch flour tortillas

1 cup prepared pizza sauce (I couldn't find any, so I used tomato sauce and then added Emerils Garlic and Parmesan seasoning. YUM! and 0 calories, too)

4 ounces shredded low fat cheddar cheese (1/2 cup)

4 ounces shredded part skim mozerella cheese (1/2 cup)

4 ounces shredded low fat swiss cheese (1/2 cup) -(I couldn't find shredded low fat swiss cheese, so I just used a whole cup of the mozerella)

4 cups mixed salad greens

1 1/2 cup fat-free salad dressing (wishbone salad spritzers Italian is really good)

1. Preheat the oven 350 F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

2. Place the tortillas on the baking sheet and spread with the pizza sauce and top with the cheeses.

3. Bake until the cheese just melts and the tortillas are crisp, 6-8 minutes

4. Meanwhile, toss the salad greens with the dressing and divide between four plates

5. Serve each person a pizza and a salad

tonight I'm making Spinach and Turkey Lasagna. I'll let you know how it turns out!

Meanwhile, lets get sharing, girls!

"ohhhhhh goooooodie"

2009-05-07T12:41:00.000-07:00

I think this place will be awesome! Thank Liss for setting this all up, can't wait to share share SHARE!

Yay!

2009-05-07T09:34:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the Peterson Sharing blog! I know, the title is lame, but I was too lazy to get creative.
Mom had the idea to start a blog where we can share recipes, tips, fitness advice, and whatever else you want to share with each other. So here it is! Get postin!