Changes: New job, new apartment, new baby!

In the last couple of months lots has changed in the Peterson home. Dan accepted and has started his new job at UCLA hospital. (The 3rd highest ranked hospital in the US!) He loves it so far. It's so much different from the VA. He says now he feels like he is running an actual business. He manages a couple of different departments within the hospital. The clinical Neurophysiology and Pulmonary departments. In the first week he was already training a seminar on customer service.
To go along with the new job we decided to upgrade our apartment. We have an extra room and more importantly a dishwasher!! It still makes me sick to think that in Utah or pretty much anywhere else we could own a brand new nice spacious house with what we pay in rent. Oh well, but we are like 4 blocks closer to the beach than our old place. The new place has worked out great except for the cockroach and the apartment down the hall got robbed the other day. It was important for us to find a place that is in our current ward. We love our ward. Dan just got called to be the Young Mens President. He will be great the boys all already love him.
The biggest news of all....THE NEW BABY!!!! Everyone pretty much knows but it's exciting to be able to announce it officially. (which Dan did in his talk today. I didn't even know that he was going to do it!) We are so excited and we already have been lucky enough to have 4 ultrasounds to see our cute large lime. (that's what size fruit it is this week) I'm a little over 3 months and decided to take my first tummy pictures. Even though you probably can't see anything I am noticing little by little it is getting larger. I'm so excited to be going through this at the same time at Nichole and Dan's sister Nen. My friend at church is only a week behind me too.
Things have been going soo well and we are very grateful! We can't wait to see everyone in Utah next week!

You can see in the lower pic that our apartment is a mess!! I will post pictures later of the new place when we get everything all settled in.

Somebody is pregnant!

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IT'S FALL

Dan had a day off for Columbus Day so we went up to Sac for the 3 day weekend. It was soo cold and windy!! Living in LA made us forget that it was October. We went to this huge pumpkin patch and had lots of fun. Sometime on the drive our camera got smashed so we now cant tell what the picture is going to look like..we just have to guess. (just like yours Nichole) oh well the pictures turned out fine and we'll just have to get a new one during the after Thanksgiving sales. It was fun to be able to hang out with Stevie, Sherd, and Chandler. (we missed you Jordan!) Even though it was such a short time we always find a way to have so much fun. I'm so excited to see the whole fam for Thanksgiving!!

Well I'm at work and Ella is asleep and I should be studying but I decided that I need to post something even though I have no pictures because I'm not on my computer. Dan has finally received a job offer at the VA. And he had 3 job interviews at the UCLA hospital last week. All of the jobs look really good. I want him to get out of the VA while he can I'm scared he will get sucked in forever. It's weird cause I would think that I would be sad that we haven't found good jobs in Utah or Sacramento but I'm actually really liking it here in LA. It would be nice to be able to buy a nice house and be close to family and friends but we really growing to love all of the traffic. j/k that's the one thing I could stand to live without. We are planning to go to Utah soon and I'm excited to see all the new babies that have been born! Well for now we are waiting for other job offers to come. The one that Dan is most interested in is the Chief Administrative officer for the radiology and oncology department. He said that he dominated the interview and they are looking for someone just like him. He is such a different person when it comes to his work. He is such a hard worker and I'm excited for him to be getting all these offers. He deserves it!!!

So I'm pretty much the worst blogger EVER!! It's been awhile so I have lots of pictures. We have been really busy for the last couple of weeks. We went home for the 4th and had tons of fun with the fam. We went to the parade and watched the fireworks. We went to John's Incredible Pizza!!! We had so much fun and we won tons of tickets with the Deal or no Deal game. My sister Sheridan came home with us and she has been here for over a week and my other sister Chandler flew in and we are all having a blast. Next week we meet the rest of the fam in Atascadero. Here are some pictures of our last couple of weeks.

Fun Free Friday giveaways!

So my sister Nichole told me about this blog www.sweetlifeinthevalley.com they have a giveaway every week! This week is a layers swimsuit!! Anyway they also have lots of cute ideas and recipes on the page. Check it out!

Go Lakers!!

The Limo ride to the game

Ella (the babe that I nanny for) in Laguna Beach...she just had a little bite of a chocolate Malt!

Ashly's son Ammon and I in her dressing room

The last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy!! I was able to go to a taping of Dancing with the Stars to help watch my cousin Ashly's baby backstage. It was pretty cool to be able to see all the stars. It was the 100th episode so all of the past stars that have been on the show were back. I ran into Syesha from American Idol in the bathroom. It was right before she went on stage to preform. I hung out with Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris(the hosts) in their dressing rooms and even was up close to Randy Jackson. They taped American Idol the same night so thats how I saw all of them. Then after the show at the Grove I ran into Kelly Kapoor from the Office!
The next night we were able to go to a Lakers vs Jazz playoff game 8th row with our friends Matt and Carrie!! Denzel Washington was right in front of us along with Jack Black and Kelly Slater. We even got free T-shirts when we got to the game and I ended up selling mine for $20 bucks!! So we made money by going to the game.
Then last weekend we went with Carrie and Matt to their beach house in Laguna Beach! It was our first time in Laguna Beach and we had so much fun. They had a private beach and we had fun just walking around all the cool shops and eating yummy food.
As you can see we are having a ton of fun here in LA!! So come and visit us!!