Recent happenings and a one year old

Tyrel and School:
Sometimes a semester comes along that defines a person and where they are at within their studies...Winter semester 2011 is this semester. The school work is kicking my butt in a nice positive sort of way that makes me appreciate what I am learning. And best of all I wake up every morning not dreading class, I am excited to learn!

Ty and Suz and the sports they play:
We are playing on a ward coed basketball team and playing well...especially Suzi. Everyone in the ward is sure that she is the AllStar of the team and as the proud husband of a wonderful wife I agree. The funny thing about the coed league up here is girls get more points for the shots they make. For example: Suzi makes a layup she gets three points, or four points for a three point shot. So you can see that if a team has really outstanding players (Suzi) then chances are your team is pretty good. We also play on a guys and girls competitive team, with our teams both enjoying a 4-1 record. Suzi is a great defender and a lot of fun to watch, she is a difference maker on her team. We have both sprained our right ankles, but found ourselves playing sooner than we should have...what can I say we love the game.

Jules:
She is 1!!! Can you believe it?? She is slowly but surely gaining more confidence in walking, she has taken a few spills that have resulted in bruises and bumps. I am pretty sure that she is getting all of her teeth at once right now, seriously though she is going through some major teething drama. She is the greatest and the most fun I wish all of our faithful readers could come and spend a day with her because she has the power to make ones day the greatest. Suz and I love being her parents, we love drinking in the small/precious moments we get with her because we both now that before we realize she will be dating boys and the like.

This is about as brief as I could be for now, hope you enjoy the pics.

As all of you can see we love our daughter immensely!! How couldn't you??

The Adventures of Food Boy, Pt. 2

Now for the explanation of how I came to be in this movie.

This movie was filmed the Summer of 2007.  Also known as the summer I fell in love with one Mr. Tyrel.  As most of you know, we were counselors for BYU Sports Camps that summer.  One of my favorite counselors that year was Lindsay Bird.  "That name sounds familiar..." you may be thinking.  She is famous.  She is in some LDS movies ("One Good Man" and "Beauty and the Beast" and some others I think).  Well, because of her acting background, she got us in to be extras in this movie.  Ha!  It was a fun day.  The girl sitting next to me and the boy on the other side of me were also counselors. There is one other scene that I'm in, I think.  Tyrel and I just bought the movie on amazon for the high price of $3.66.  It's obviously a really GREAT movie! :)  Anyway, after we watch it I will let you know if I am in any other scenes.  This is so funny.

So yeah, there are the details for those who were wondering.

The Adventures of Food Boy

Watch this movie trailer.  Pay close attention around the 1:45 mark....

Back in the Burg

Christmas sure flew by this year.  Tyrel and I were thinking back to when we were kids and how the days before Christmas seemed to last FOREVER!  All we wanted was for Christmas Day to arrive.  We ate chocolates, ripped paper circles off of chains...and still Christmas couldn't come soon enough.  Now I find myself wishing that the days would slow down before Christmas.  I love Christmas Day, don't get me wrong. But I would have to say my favorite thing about Christmas is all the festivities and excitement leading up to it. I used to be one of those people who would start listening to Christmas music the day after Halloween because I felt like it made the feeling of the season last longer.  This year I couldn't even find my Celine Christmas CD... so, the season came and went.  Good news is I still had a great Christmas!  Especially since it was Julia's first Christmas. We were able to spend two and a half weeks in Utah. No work, no school, just play. We visit family and friends, played a lot of Wii, watched TV (we don't have TV in Rexburg, so this is a treat for us), saw David Archuletta w/ Mo-Tab, saw Savior of the World, went to Desert Star, and ate a lot of good food and treats. It was a lot of fun watching Julia open her gifts. She seemed a little overwhelmed in the Salisbury family room when she saw all of her presents, Parker's presents, and Rachel's presents scattered through out the room. So many things to touch and play with.  Of course, if given the choice to play with a cool toy that lights up and makes noises or a small piece of garbage...garbage wins. Funny girl.  Tyrel gave me some super awesome presents this year, and I'm pretty sure he liked what I gave him.  I will have to say the funniest thing he gave me was some Fun Dip candy in my stocking.  I'm pretty sure he bought that knowing it would end up in his mouth....and it did.  Ha! He did get me an awesome new camera though, so now I will post some pictures.

It was a great break as you can see.  However, we are happy to be back in the Burg.  It's snowy and cold, but we love it here.  Plus, now that Julia is back in her own bed she is sleeping like a champ! 12 hours last night.  Booyah!

10 Days in Utah

Great Thanksgiving Break!

Highlights:

- Visiting Grandma and Grandpa Salisbury and interviewing them about the Korean War days. Learned about how they met and learned that not only does Tyrel look like Elvis, but he is the spitting image if his Grandpa.  Very handsome. 

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PT 1.... IMAX. HUGE. AWESOME!

- Apples to Apples.  Teaching Parker the importance of respecting the Celine Dion card.  Tam's determination to beat me. She wishes....

- Lunch with some of the best friends I've ever had or ever will have.

- Julia being afraid of beards.  Eric and Clint, it's nothing personal. Julia loves you.

- Seeing happy grandparent's faces as they interact with Julia.

- Julia stealing toys from cousin David, who could care less.

- Brian and Kayla visiting.

- New words and noises: "baby", "night, night", tongue click, growling, smacking lips

- Julia learning to get down from standing.

- T-Day at Clint and Abby's. "Do tourists go to Heaven?", "Watch out or you'll get nailed", excuse my language "Oh Hell!"

- Yummy Dinners

- The biggest STORM EVER!

- And so much more...

Love the Holidays!  Can't wait to see all the Utah family and friends during Christmas!

Family Pictures

Our very first professional family photo shoot! We had such a fun time having these pictures taken.  You can't tell in these photos, but Julia was rather cranky.  It took a lot to get the smiles out of her, but luckily our photographer was on the ball and captured the split second smiles. I love the more candid pictures she took when we weren't looking. These are just a few of our favorites so we thought we would share them with you.

Half an hour later....

Here's one little cute one I got to post... I love picasa.

Sorry for the delay...

For some reason it takes forever long to post pictures and videos.  I think it has something to do with our internet connection. This is the reason for the lack of posting.  I do apologize to all of our active followers (are you out there???). I tried again today, but no luck.  It truly is unfortunate because we got a new video camera that shoots in HD and has a program to make it super simple to upload videos to the internet. There is a lot of adorable Julia footage I hope to one day share with all of you.  For now I will give you an update via words...

Julia is now 7 months old.  For the longest time we wondered if she would ever learn to army crawl or just go straight to crawling.  Then bang, one night she would just get in her hands and knees and wobble back and forth, the next day I almost lost her when she army crawled into the kitchen and under the table. Now she armys everywhere!  The other day I had left her in the living room to play with toys while I did my hair.  Next thing I knew I felt a little hand on my foot...our first game of hide and seek :)

Despite the joy that being mobile has brought to Julia, she has been in some pain lately.  All four of her top teeth are coming in at the same time. Two have broken skin and two are just about there. The funny thing is the two on the sides are coming in before the middle ones. Before we saw the middle two on their way I feared her cute little smile would have a few bad days.  In my mind I pictured the two side teeth completely in with a huge gap in the front...Kinda weird.  I'm sure she would have rocked that look anyway.

Tyrel has just about made it to midterms.  From about 8 to 5 ever day he is either at work or school.  Julia and I love when he is able to come home and play at the end of the night.  Of course, now that sports are in full swing, there isn't a whole lot of hang out time.  Tyrel and I are on a softball team together, then each on individual flag football teams.  I'm also playing competitive soccer which means practice twice a week and games on the weekends.  Sometimes I feel we are over scheduled, but it is so much fun!  We love our sporting events!

Well, there's an update for you.  Sorry again about the lack of pictures and video. I will keep on searching out alternatives.

Grean Beans

Pearly Whites

Recent Happenings

Grandma and Grandpa Pehrson came up for a visit to see our new place and help us clean some carpets.

The Salisbury's came up a couple weeks earlier to help us move.  Thanks family for being there for us!

Julia spit-up in Mom's mouth...directly into Mom's mouth!

Learning to sit up on her own

 Loves to roll over on her tummy...followed by crying and squirming.  Apparently she has forgotten that she learned how to roll over from stomach to back long before she learned back to stomach. So she lays on her tummy and cries until you help her flip back over. Silly girl.

Learning to eat rice from a spoon.  Slow learner...but a super cute learner at that! 

Going out for walks and jogs everyday.  Sure-fire way to stop the fussy monster.

Julia's first trip to the Splash Park here in Rexburg

Not her favorite day...

Sporting a cute hat

Tasting the leaves in our backyard

Aunt Rachel came to visit for two weeks. Tam also made a trip up for education week. We took Julia to their hotel for a swim. Pool much more successful than splash park. (PS Rach, could you post those pictures somewhere sometime?)

Photo shoot courtesy of Aunt Rachel

Too-Too provided and made by Aunt Becky.

Went up the canyon to the Atkinson property for the 4th of July. Quick pose for a cute picture with Grandpa Salisbury.

Tyrel wearing something girly and weird on his head.  This seems to be a common occurence.

Just having a good time in the canyon

And that's about everything that happened in the month of July.  Great month!

All Shiny and New!

After 10 LONG months of waiting, Tyrel, Julia, and me have finally made our move to a new apartment. Oh this place is amazing! Two bedrooms, a bathroom that I don't have the squeeze into, closet space galore, a special storage room just for us, kitchen, nice big living room...bliss! It's been fun getting everything all arranged and moved in. Things turned out even better than I thought. I found an amazing deal on KSL where I got two cute couches and a homemade lovesac for $100. To make things even better we sold our old love seat couch for $80 so we basically got a new living room set for $20. All I have to say is it pays to look on KSL!
I'm super excited about Julia's room. I've never had the opportunity to decorate a little baby room before! My mind has been racing with ideas. I'm thinking a light springy green, pink and black for the colors. I've gone to walmart to price some material for curtains, and I can't wait to get started. I'm also going to tryout the whole turning something old into something new thing. My sister-in-law Abby is my inspiration on this one. Abby, you are so creative and awesome when it comes to decorating and doing cute things! I just love your home! Anyway, I will be sure to post some pictures about all of this soon. If any of you would like to come visit and see the live version of our new place, you are more than welcome to! And, with the bigger place, we'd be more than happy to house you! Ha! Much love family and friends! I hope you are all doing well.

Motherhood

Moms....ENJOY! (The music is clear down at the bottom if you want to turn it off)