Perry Family

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

TC's parents came a couple of weeks ago to meet Linnea and we had a great time with them! Here are some fun pictures! I am behind on blogging too. I need to post more but it's been kind of crazy. We are blessing Linnea this weekend too so there will be a lot more pictures to come!

Monday, March 4, 2013

Kids' Quotes

I haven't posted the funny things the kids have said lately and I really want to keep up with them. Here are a few I can think of.

Savanna

"I love that little Linnea. I just want to squish those baby cheeks!"
"We are a family! I am the big sister and I have a little brother and a little sister."
"Linnea's the cutest little baby girl ever!"
"This is the best day ever!"
(To my friend Candace) "I was the smallest when I was born, Clark was next and then Linnea was the biggest."
(To Clark) "Linnea's going to be so much fun when she grows up. She'll get bigger and bigger and she'll play with toys!"
(To me the first day I didn't have help) "Mommy I'm going to make you breakfast because you are on your own with the baby."

As you can see she love her baby sister!

Clark

(To Linnea in the hospital) "You better go to sleep. Lightning Mcqueen is outside."
"Daddy will you get the baby's eyes open."
"I'm a big brother now so I am not a kid anymore."
(About the baby) "She likes me!"
(To Linnea) "Hi cutie! Hi sweetie! Hi precious!"
(When Linnea was crying) "It's ok. I'm here. It's ok!"
(While holding Linnea) "She's going to start crying and looking for milk and I'll say I can't feed you. I'm not a mommy!"

As you can see our world is revolving a lot around our little Linnea right now. Love those kids!

Update

Here some more pictures. We have been hanging out mostly at the house with our little Linnea and we have enjoyed some visits from family and friends. My mom was here for 3 weeks and my dad came in for a day and then my good friend Candace and her daughter, Carlie, came from Texas. TC's parents are also coming this weekend and we are excited to see them. Here are some more pictures. Enjoy!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Linnea's two week stats

Linnea is healthy and doing well. Here are her two week stats..looks like she may be following in her big sister and brother's footsteps!

Weight: 9 pounds 11 ounces-97th percentile
Height: 22.1 inches-Off the charts
Head Circumference: 14.4 inches-75th percentile

Love our baby girl!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Linnea Update

So a lot of people have been asking to see more pictures of Linnea so I decided to finally put some up and give a little update on her. Linnea is doing well and we love her so much! She is a really cute baby and generally happy. She has periods where she is really awake during the day and can stay up for awhile. She is happy and then will get a little fussy when she is tired and we will have to rock her for a few minutes and then she will go to sleep. The kids are loving her and want to be near her whenever they can. I was worried that Clark would have a lot of jealousy issues with her but so far he is doing really well. She is eating well also and peeing and pooping like crazy. I forget how much they do that in the beginning! She is just a little sweetheart! Here are some pictures. A lot of people have been asking about seeing more pictures of her. Enjoy!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Linnea Perry has arrived!

After a night and a morning of contractions and 4 hours in the hospital, our beautiful 9 lb 0 oz, 20.5 inch little girl joined our family. Ashley and Linnea are healthy and happy and we feel very blessed because of it.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Clark update-2 years 9.5 months

So Mr. Clark is growing up. Clark's big accomplishment is he is now potty trained during the day. He is even waking up with dry diapers about half the time. He still has an occasional accident here and there but overall is doing very well. He always wants us to help him go to the bathroom though so it still seems like as much work as diapers.
Clark continues to like going to gym class though we probably will take a break from that for a bit after the baby's born. He also started taking a music class in January which he is seems to be enjoying though he is very serious during it and always wants to stay by me. (Both gym and music are a parent/child class.)
Clark loves to play with his cars, watch movies, eat, pretend, and do whatever Savanna is doing. Recently he has been into talking about dragons and how they are going to get us. He loves to race through the house like Lightning Mcqueen saying "Kachow!" or Show time!"
We love our little man! He's so much fun to have around. Here are some of this favorite things.
Favorite color: GREEN! (Seriously he colors everything green, always wants the green balls or bells at gym class. He really likes green!)
Favorite food: Cantaloupe! (He goes crazy for it.)
Favorite movie: Cars
Favorite song: Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam
Best friend: Savanna

Recent quotes

"There's a dragon coming! He's going to bite us!"
"There's a dragon coming. He's going to eat all our food!"
TC-"Clark what does the dragon like to eat?" Clark:"Oatmeal, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets."
(After explaining to Clark about dieing) "If we die will someone come and give us batteries?"
"Mommy you are going fast like Doc."
"All the cars won the race. They won the Piston Cup!"
"I don't want to do anything!"
"I flushed some bad guys down the toilet."

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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