Perry Family: December 2008

Monday, December 22, 2008

Happy Birthday Savanna!!

Savanna is officially one year old today! I can't believe it! I know this sounds cliche but time really has flown! We had a great day. We took her to get her pictures taken at JC Penney, then to Wingers for a free birthday lunch. Then later in the afternoon we went to Build-a-Bear and she picked out a bear, then to Jump on It in Lindon. She had a great day!! She was so happy and excited today. I think she knew it was a special day. I will post pictures later. (especially since we haven't given her presents yet because my aunt is coming into town tonight and she doesn't want to miss the family celebration for Savanna so we are going to do that tomorrow night). We have a lot of family in town for the holidays so I will have a lot of pictures to post of Savanna's birthday and the Christmas festivities. Plus I am just plain exhausted from the day's activities! I couldn't let the day go by however without posting and wishing our darling, little girl "Happy Birthday!" She is the joy and light of our lives! She is the sweetest little girl and we love her so much! Thank you to all our family and friends out there that have played a part in her life this past year!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Birthday party for Savanna

So we had an early birthday party for Savanna on Saturday with some family and a few friends. It was fun though Savanna was not in the best of spirits. She seemed to be not feeling well this weekend but appears better now. She wouldn't eat very much Saturday night and had a bit of a fever. We don't know if she caught a little bug or if those symptoms are just from teething. Anyway, as you can see from the pictures she looks very grumpy! It was sad too because she wouldn't eat any of her cake as we all stood watching her and she usually will eat anything! Oh well! You can't always predict babies' moods! Here are some pictures of the festivities.

Guests chatting

Grumpy Girl

Dad and Grumpy Girl!

I don't want this cake!

Party food

Savanna's proud aunts: Marisha and April (TC's sisters)

Uncle George and Aunt April

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday!

Proud Parents

Saturday, December 6, 2008

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Well this week has been very busy preparing for Christmas!! I have been busy collecting addresses and sending out Christmas cards, on Thursday we got our tree up and all the other decorations and we have finished our Christmas shopping and the presents are wrapped underneath the tree!! I love the holiday feel in the air! Last night we went up to temple square to see the lights with some friends and tonight we are watching "A Christmas Story" with some friends. I have never seen it! This time of year is so fun! Enjoy the pics!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Fun videos

Finally, here are a video of Savanna! We stole them from my brother's camera. We still haven't figured out how to put the video footage from our camera in smaller segments on the computer so we can post them on our blog. We hopefully will figure that out soon. Anyway, enjoy!!

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving

We just returned Sunday from celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in Florida this year. My grandfather owns a farm near Gainesville and a large amount of extended family gathered there for the holiday. Going to "the farm" for Thanksgiving has been a long tradition in my family. I can't remember a Thanksgiving before I was married that I did not spend at the farm. However, we have not been to the farm for Thanksgiving since 2005-the year we were married. We spent Thanksgiving of 2006 with the Perry family which was a blast and last year I was too close to my due date to travel and TC's family was nice enough to drive down to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with us. Anyway, it was great to go back to the farm! There was over twenty people total there between our little family, my parents, my brothers, my cousins, Grandpa, aunts and uncles. Savanna had a great time and got a Ton of attention!! Thank you Grandpa for once again hosting such a wonderful Thanksgiving. We love you and we love all our family that we were able to spend time with. It was nice to visit with family that we do not see very much with living so far away. Here are some pictures of the festivities!

Savanna with Grandma and her Great Grandpa

Savanna with a cousin, Lynn

The beautiful Florida sunset-nothing else like it!

My brother, Spenser, at the airport

Savanna and Dad

Getting ready for the Thanksgiving Feast

Savanna and her second cousin, Amanda

Savanna with her second cousin, Sarah. They were best buddies during the whole trip!

Our cousins, Ashley and Brookes (they are twins)

Savanna with her lawnmower-a new toy she got from Grandma

The family on the tractor!

Savanna deciding whether or not she wants to pet my Grandpa's horse-Star.

Savanna in her Christmas dress

Savanna's first Thanksgiving dinner

Riding on the tractor!

Jumping on the hay bales!

Eating s'mores

Savanna and her great Grandpa

All the family

Grandpa and the grandkids and a great grandchild (Savanna-there are two other great grandchildren who weren't there along with two grandchildren)

How We Met

We met when both of us lived in the same apartment complex and were attending the same singles ward. We became acquainted as friends when one of Ashley's roomates was interested in one of TC's roommates and always wanted to hang out at their apartment. Ashley came along for moral support. Ashley has to admit that her initial impression of TC was not the greatest. She was wondering why he was trying to act like such a "tough guy" by shaving his head and going by TC. One day she asked him why he didn't grow his hair out to which he replied that he could not and she also learned that he goes by TC to distinguish himself from his father who is named Thomas Clark and his grandfather who is Thomas Clarence. TC relates that when he first met Ashley he thought she was cute and was contemplating asking her out or another girl in the ward. He did think Ashley was slightly immature because she was engaging in often frivolous activities such as throwing water balloons out her apartment window at people walking by and wrestling with guys in the apartment lounge. (She has grown up since then, TC says!) TC decided to give it a go and ask Ashley out after he came home from a trip visiting his sister, April, in Arizona. His roommates related that Ashley had expressed an interest in him. (Actually Ashley's roommate was trying to hook her up with TC and told his roommates Ashley wanted to go out with him. Ashley did not entirely object.) So TC called Ashley and asked her to go with a group to Pirates of the Caribbean. Their first official single date was to Wendy's (Way to go, TC, lol) TC and Ashley dated exclusively for about a year before becoming engaged in December of 2004 and were then married on April 23rd, 2005 and it has been bliss ever since!

About Us

TC grew up in Washington and Ashley grew up in Southern Florida. TC is the oldest and has three sisters and one brother. Ashley is the oldest and has two younger brothers. Both attended Brigham Young University-Ashley majoring in Psychology and TC in Biotechnology. Ashley received a Master's degree from the University of Utah in Social Work. Both enjoy bowling, tennis, racquetball, and watching movies. They also like music and both play the piano and sing. They enjoy spending time with friends and family.

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