Graduation, Disney World and Carribean Cruise

Wow, we're long due for some updates on here, so we'll see if we can knock out a few events from the last few months. Well, as the post title reads, we have graduated! We can't believe it, after years of being in Provo, we're all "grown up," supposedly, and are BYU alumni now! Emy does have an independent study course to finish up this summer, but I'm free and clear! In fact, I got my diploma in the mail the other day...

Emy's parents came out to Provo for graduation, celebrating with us, as well as Brock and Jamie, and my parents made it out too! We planned a trip to go to Orlando Florida to go to Disney World WITHOUT Boston. Haha, thats right, Will and Kathy took B-man home with them to AZ for 9 days, and Emy and I flew out to FL with my parents where we met up with Dan and Jenny's family, as well as Kim and Liz. We had a blast fulfilling our childhood dreams for three days at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Disney Hollywood Studios.

In fact, Emy tried out for the "American Idol Experience" at Hollywood Studios and she made it in! So what that means is that she got to perform live on stage infront of probablly 150+ Disney guests at the park for the day. The audience votes, and if you win, you make it to a finale later in the day. Well, she did amazing, singing the song, "I hope you dance" by Martina McBride; however didn't get voted to the finale. She was actually glad, because it took up a 3+ hours for hair and make-up and we wanted to get back to the rides!

We had fun with all the hat you can find in the gift shops!

Can you guess what movie this prop is from?

Yup, you guessed it, from "Hannah Montana, the Movie". We love that movie!!

After 3 days at Disney we took a shuttle down to Miami and caught our 4 night cruise with ports in Key West and Cozumel, Mexico. This was our first cruising experience and we had a blast. The food was tasty and plentiful, and there was lots of entertainment, and ample amount of nap time! Next time we go on a cruise, we want to go with friends or family, so we have our own posse' to hang with. Not that we didn't dig the alone time, but we can see cruising as a group being even more fun! Our last day in Florida after we got off the boat, we stayed in Ft. Lauderdale where we would catch our flight the next afternoon. It was quite the adventure getting up there from Miami. It took a combination of taxi, metro, train, and a 2 shuttles to get there, but it was well worth it. We were in a Hyatt hotel that we pricelined for $50 and it was amazing! We ate dinner at an authentic Argentine restaurant and enjoyed an afternoon at the beach (which was ironically the first time we really got in the ocean after sailing on it for the last 4 days!).

Thanks Mom and Dad McIntyre and Nowell for supporting us through college, but not just financial aid, but your love, prayers, comfort after those tear filled phone calls and the occasional flight home to escape and relax! We love you and we owe you guys everything! Hopefully with a college education we'll be able to support you when you're old and gray! :)

Our Christmas in Bridgewater!

We began our trip with a lot of weather. There was a huge storm so our flight was pushed back 1 day. However, there were still alot of delays so we ended up being stuck in memphis on our layover for 4 or 5 hours. We had a couple of melt downs, but we ended up setting up shop in a corner of the airport with highschool musical playing and my huge sherpa coat as a blanket. I stopped at one point and told Jason that we got through this, so we could get through anything! Plus ups and especially downs come whether we like them or not, but the downs are so much better with my family!
There was over two feet of snow in VA so we were very anxious to go play in the snow with Boston and all our neices and nephews! We didn't have snow pants or snow shoes so we wrapped each of Bostons legs in plastic grocery bags and wrapped in duck tape! he looked so funny and so flippin adorable. Although, i don't think it worked cause he cried as soon as he touched the snow. In the one on the sled he looks like a little amputee, not that thats funny or anything! hehe.

Below is a picture of one of my favorite traditions, The nativity. Ever

y year the whole Teerlink family gets together and does a big potluck lunch. After we eat, the nativity roles are assigned.

Because boston was in my tummy last time we did this, we were so excited to see what role he would play, and we were hoping he would play the role of the cute cudley sheep. He did

, except he wanted to sit in this chair and him and nathan were fighting over it.

Eventually, Alexa came over and put an end to the fighting by sitting in the chair herself. It was hilarious .
Heres somemore cute pics of Boston and his cousing Nathan in the tub, and giving kisses! Its nice to see him being affectionate, because ever since i taught him to say "hiyah" he karate chops everything, especially Nathans head. But, don't worry, Nathan gets him back with his overzealous hugs and usually knocks Boston to the ground! more posts like this one to come! Oh and here is a picture of Boston in his new snow shoes! yay for things that actually keep your legs warm!

Daddy Baby Trip to Phoenix & GreenBuild

This last week Boston and I (Jason) spent 5 days in Phoenix. My primary reason for going was to attend GreenBuild, which is hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council. As many of you know, in June I took the LEED A.P. test and I am now LEED accreditted. This is a designation that denotes that I have at least basic understanding of green or sustainable building construction, practices, design and operations. Certainly I am anxious to gain more hands on experience, but at least I have accomplished the initial "book smarts" of sustainable design. Feel free to ask me about it, and I can tell you as much as you want to know. Anyways... this conference was a perfect place for me to network and connect with potential employers and learn about sustainable products available in the market place. I attended a job fair on Tuesday, then a full day of conference on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday I took the day off to play with my favorite little baby! Boston came with me to Phoenix because Kathy (my mother-in-law) wanted to take care of Boston and play with him. This gave Emy the opportunity to get ahead on some school work and relax some! We sure did miss her, and she claims to have missed us more!

On Friday Boston and I started off the morning playing at home, getting in the hot tub, taking a nap, and then going out for lunch! We had so much fun. Look at us at our "lunch date" at Pita Jungle which is really tasty if you ever get the chance!

At the conference I got to go to the Keynote opening plenary where Al Gore spoke, among others, and Sheryl Crow put on a really good concert! ( A full hour of her singing!) I wasn't to sure about what Al was going to say, but turns out he was very funny and a great presenter.

I was in the FRONT ROW, so I was like 10-15 feet from Sheryl!

Boston and I rode bikes around some on our free time. The weather was GREAT. One evening we rode a few miles to Ice Tango which has great frozen yogurt! We ended up going there 2x other times with Will and Kathy, they love it even more than us!

The first morning we were there, we went on a nice ride as well! Boston loves riding in this seat, we need to get one so we can go on rides at home (when its not snowing...)

The last morning we were there, I was determined to run a 5k with Boston. I was planning on running the 5 k that was hosted by the GreenBuild Conference, but it got cancelled last minute, so I found another race on google that was out in Mesa! We showed up 15 minutes before the race started, signed up and took off! I don't know what motivated me to run the race, because EmyLee will tell you, and I agree, that I'm not too anxious to go running here at home. I just wanted to do it, and thought it would be a cool memory with Boston. We did alright, finishing around 29 minutes. I thought that was descent given I never run, and I ran with Boston in the jogging stroller! All in all we had a great time in Phoenix! Thanks Will and Kathy for letting us stay with you!

Family Pictures on the Beach

On our vacation to San Diego over labor day, our close friend, Chrissy Walker, took family pictures for us! We're so grateful because we haven't been the best at documenting memories or family pictures. Thanks Chrissy!

San Diego Trip, Labor Day 2009

Well I don't have much time to write much, but I wanted to post a few pictures! We went to San Diego over Labor Day weekend, and it was an amazing trip! It was such a great get away and we made it by spending very little! (By Rapid Rewards flights, cooking at home, and not renting a car! Oh, and our condo, ON THE BEACH, was free too, thanks to Will and his business contacts!)

The best part of the trip was that we got to go with our great friends Lance and Chrissy Walker, Lexy, and Emy's parents!! Chrissy and Lexi are both great photographers and did an excellent job documenting the trip, plus they took some family photos for us too! (those are to come, except for the one at the top right of our blog).

Here are some of the fun pictures, aren't they great! (P.S. a little plug for them both... they both do photography for any event or occassion - Lexy in AZ and Chrissy in UT)

There are some great shots during this sunset, our silhouettes are awesome!

Lance and Chrissy are amazing at country dancing and they know a ton of different lifts and moves!

Surfs up man! This was BEFORE I got stung by a sting ray! That part wasn't fun, but it was the last few hours we were there!


HOTT MOMMA!
Boston's first longboarding lesson
Isn't he just the cutest!

Summer Pictures

So we're not the best at posting consitently, but I wanted to put a few pictures up from this summer. We still need to get the pictures together from Boston's birthday, but that will be soon! (We only took a video, so I need to save a couple frames from the video as pictures and I just haven't gotten around to it!)

Boston on the boat with Grandpa Nowell. Boston loved the wind in his hair, and just relaxed with Grandpa!

This is Boston sipping a RedBull at a Diamond Backs game in Arizona! Haha, no don't worry, he didn't drink any!! But he tried!

Here's Boston looking so cute when we went out to eat one night. He is so adorable!

Boston's first haircut! We cut the side short, and left a Mohawk/Fauxhawk, and thats how we usually style it too!

Mommy and Bman at the Duck Pond south of BYU on a walk!

Me and Boston at the Duck Pond

So this picture is older, but I thought it was so cute. This is Boston with his "cuz" Jackson. Boston was like 10 months here

I will make a better effort to take more pictures and post sooner, cuz Boston already looks older than these pictures! He's almost walking, and stands on his own!