Happy Anniversary BRIAN!!!

So, today marked 3 years of wonderful married life with my husband.  He is the most thoughtful and wonderful man I have ever met.  He is a fantastic spouse, friend, and father.  Tyson just adores Brian and I have to say one of the things that make me ALWAYS smile is Brian playing with Tyson.  Brian works so hard at everything he does no matter how big or small.  I love you Brian and thank you for 3 wonderful years of marriage.  I can't wait to see what else will come our way. 

Unfortunately, Tyson has been sick the last few days so we didn't feel comfortable asking someone to watch Tyson when he was so sick.  We didn't get to go out to dinner or movie or anything.  We will have to pick a night in the near future to celebrate!  I did go to the Nutcracker with my sister in law tonight and had a lot of fun.  Brian stayed home with our sick baby : (  I love ballet...and Brian of course!

Here are some pictures of my love and I:

Dating: 2005

The Proposal:  September 2005

Wedding Day: December 22, 2005

Honeymoon: January 2006

 

My Graduation from BYU:  August 2006

Tyson's Birth: April 2008  (So I totally hate this picture of me but it was our first family picture so it is still precious to me.  Just don't look at me. Thanks)

I wish I could share a million more pictures but these are all special pictures to me.  

Christmas Pictures

I know this is my second post of today.  I am just too excited to not share our pictures from this afternoon.  My sister-in-law took these and I am really happy with how they turned out.  Next week I am taking her pictures and I only hope I can get her such great pictures she got for my family!  It was so cold at the park.  I had of course coordinated colored sweaters but it was so cold Brian and I didn't even want to take off our coats.  Oh well, the colors still all work together!  Tyson did great.  He didn't get fussy at all and it sure helped to have his cousins and uncle making silly noisy and faces at him. Happy looking and don't forget to look at our my other post below.  You'll get to see Tyson with Santa ;)

 

The following pictures are of the kids/cousins!  Max, Madilyn and Tyson!   It was pretty hard to get all the kids looking the same way BUT we learned something today.  If the kids are freezing then they won't really run away : )

 

Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Time!

Last weekend we went to the Festival of Trees.  Every tree and decoration is donated and then any profits made go to the Children's Hospital.  It was extremely crowded (which is a wonderful thing to see) but we still had lots of fun.  There were University of Utah golf trees (that's for Grandpa Dickson, the Murray Grandparents and for my dad), Twilight trees, and the usual snowman and Santa Clause trees.  They also had gingerbread houses or rather mansions and pictures with Santa!  The pictures with Santa weren't that cheap (we got a 5x7 and a CD for $12) but I figured Ty was dressed up and anything I paid went to the hospital : ).  Here are some fun pictures that I took and then Ty with Santa!

Tyson with a fun Santa tree.  Isn't Photoshop cool?!  I took that hideous white chain out of my picture.  I am still trying to figure out how to use the feature and this was my first time so don't look TOO close!

Utah golf.  I accidentally cut off the "star" at the top of the golf club tree.  It was a giant lighted golf ball!

My favorite gingerbread mansion there!

Tyson with Santa!  He was looking at the lady at the side with the noisy reindeer : )  He did well for like 3 picture and then started fussing but didn't cry.

We're back!!

I am finally back and up and running.  Our computer crashed for the second time right before Thanksgiving.  We finally decided it was probably time for a new one so my brother, Mike, built it for us.  It is really nice!!!!!

I have so much to say!  We had a great Thanksgiving spent with Brian's family.  Tyson hadn't seen Grandma and Grandpa Carlsen for a while so he really enjoyed it!  We had a wonderful dinner.  As always we went shopping on "Black Friday".  We never really go for anything big but had fun with Jenny and Carlos and then went to breakfast!  Here are some pictures from that weekend:

Ty eating his mashed potatoes.  He had juice mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes for dinner : )

 

Sittin' down for dinner!

Sleeping with Grandpa Carlsen

Look at my fun holiday hat Grandpa got me!!!  Don't I look cute?!

Now we will jump to December...

Tyson has learned how to officially crawl and pull himself up to standing or kneeling with the help of items around the house.   Here are just a few:

The entertainment center...(his personal favorite)

Good Morning!  His crib...

The laundry basket...I was folding the laundry and Tyson came over and stood up on the outside, then fell into the basket while reaching for the clothes and then stood up on the inside!  It was so funny! : )  He made laundry fun that day.

More posts to follow soon!!!!

Usborne Book Party Update!

Because of the Thanksgiving Holiday my e-show for the Usborne Books will close on Friday Dec. 5th at midnight. If you still want to order or wish you had ordered visit my post on November 28th and you can see the link to order online. Once again we, all of my family just love these books. Our computer still frozen so we are working on getting a new one but for now I can only get limited time for email so I may not get back to you as soon as I have in the past.

This week with NO computer!!!

Hey everyone. Our computer froze and we haven't been able to turn it on for about a week. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did! On Wednesday I got my bangs trimmed. They are still sweepy but can be regular bangs too I suppose. In december I will pay to get the full bangs. I am excited. I saw Twilight on Saturday and I loved it. A few different parts from the book but that is okay. The characters also really grew on me. Tyson is offically really crawling everywhere and likes to try to pull himself up to stand. Sorry my thoughts are just jumbled but we're at my inlaws house and I wanted to do a post to explain where I have been this last week! Just so you all know the Usborne Book Party that I had on Saturday is still open. That means you can order online. The party will be closing soon so don't miss your chance. I have emailed a lot of you but I still wanted to reach others that I haven't. Tyson really likes the Touchy Feely books (and let's face it, I like to touch them too!) The link is below. What could be a greater gift then buying your kiddos educational and fun books for Chritmas?! Happy Ordering!

You are invited to an Usborne Books eShow to explore the world of Usborne Books. A child's interest in reading and learning is stimulated by the lavish illustrations and informative content. There are over 1300 bright, colorful and fun titles covering activities, puzzles and a wide range of subjects for children of all ages.
Usborne Books - the books kids love to read!
Hosted by: Ashley Carlsen
Place: www.ubah.com/HOS132378
When: Today thru 11/29/2008 11:59:00 PM (Hopefully we wil be able to extend this a few days!)
Everyone is welcome, so invite a friend.
It's a rewarding experience when a child opens a book and discovers the magic of reading.

Thanks everyone! Happy Holidays!
-Ash

Bangs

I need everyone to be COMPLETLY honest when they leave their comments.  I am seriously thinking about getting bangs.  Not just the sweepy bangs that I currently have but REAL bangs.  Ya know, the ones that go to the eyebrows and are tapered and such.  I just feel like everyone has the sweepy bangs.  Even 10 year old girls in ballet class have 'em.  I totally love them but I don't want to be just like everyone else.  Plus hair just started growing in by the part we had to make for the sweepy bangs and it looks hideous.  The small hairs stick straight up and I can't fix em!!  So there are my reasons.  However, I think you have to have a certain face and stuff to pull it off.  So, I ask you my friends and family, Can I pull it off???

--Ashley

Tyson Eating

This was Tyson eating a few weeks ago. Watch his wrists. We get a kick out of it every time!!! Enjoy

What my day consists of...by Ty

I thought it would be fun to share some pictures of how my day typically goes.  Here it is...

I wake up and after I eat I roll around on the floor in my jammies with my favorite toy, Hippie the Hippo.

I then read a good book.  Well, I actually eat them but to me it is the same.  Thanks Grandma for these delicious books!

Next, I take a good long nap.  It usually is about 2 hours long...zzzzzz

I wake up, eat and usually practice my crawling skills.  I then watch mommy sing and dance around the house.  She is so silly.  I then take another nap in the afternoon.

My day gets really great when daddy comes home.  He plays with me on the floor.

He then feeds me my bottle and baby food while mommy is out teaching dance.  On this particular day I was feed prunes and I DID NOT like it.  Mom and Dad better not feed that to me again.

 

Then I get my nails clipped some nights by daddy.

I usually get my bath, bottle and then it is bedtime!  I love my life!

-Tyson

Happy Halloween!

I was so excited to dress Tyson up and take cute pictures of him in is tiger costume.  However, he wanted nothing to do with it.  I'm still not sure why he protested so much.  Any time I set him down next to the pumpkins he cried.  At first I thought that he was hungry, then perhaps he didn't like the costume.  Anyway, some of the pictures are cute but if he isn't crying in the picture then I snapped the shot during one of his breaks to breathe.

The costume had a tail and everything!

 

He calmed down if Daddy was holding him. 

Instead of going trick-or-treating (because Tyson can't and wouldn't know what was going on anyway) we went to a party.  Our friends Joe and Heather did a great job with planning, decorationing and providing a yummy dinner.  We also did a murder mystery party and turns out I murdered Tommy Gun!  I didn't know I had it in me.  : )  Ty was up way past his bed time but he had fun with all the attention he got.  Here is a family picture of us at the party. 

In case you can't see Brian was Hugh Hefner and I was well, a (modest) bunny.  I sprayed Bri's hair with grey dye and he wore a robe and silk pajama pants.  We all had a good laugh.  Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

Ballet Video

Another Tag! : )

Tagged

Eight Shows I like to Watch
1.  Friends   2. Today Show  3. Life  4.  CSI: NY or Miami  5.  The Biggest Loser  6. So You Think You Can Dance  7. The Big Bang Theory  8. and FRIENDS again

Eight Restaurants I like to eat at
1. Applebee's  2. Chilis  3. Cafe Rio  4. Los Hermanos
5. Panda Express  6. In-and-Out  7. Wendys  8. Rumbis

Eight things that Happened today
1. Taught Ballet 4  2. Taught Pointe class  3. Went to dentist to get my retainer fixed 4. Picked up the house 5. Made dinner
6.  Did the dishes 7. Talked to Joe and Heather
8. Dropped Ty off at my brother's house

Eight Things I am looking forward to
1. Going to Tai Pan tomorrow
2. Sleeping
3. Talking to my mom!!!
4. Going to Wal-Mart
5. A party Sat. night
6. A tail-gate party Sat. afternoon
7. Hearing Tyson laugh in the morning
8. Going out to lunch tomorrow

Eight Things on my wish list
1. Photoshop
2. A new lense for our camera
3. A house
4. Brian to make it into the U of U
5. That I could continue to nurse Ty (doesn't look like it anymore though)
6. To have healthy children
7. That I would get to the temple more often                                    8. To get some more scrapbooking done

I have to now tag 8 people.  Bree, Heather, Stephanie, Katy, Tina, Marilyn, Mom, Emily

...and just for fun here is a cute picture of Tyson in his winter coat!!! I love my boys : )

Twilight Character

So I took some quiz to find out which Twilight Character I am.  I turned out to be Esme.  I tried to post the picture but it didn't work.  Here is the link if you want to find out which character you are!

http://twilightersanonymous.com/quizzes/find-out-which-female-character-you-are.html

Next, I got tagged.  I've been tagged lots but here is the latest tag I received.

Picture Tagged!
by Marilyn
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload 4th picture from 4th folder
3. Post

This picture is from June 2008 after I had just gotten my hair cut with bangs.  I had previously made a post about this.  I was hoping to get a totally random photo but this is what I got!

Here is the "I Love your Blog Tag".  You have to answer in one word and then tag 7 people!

1. Where is your cell phone? Table
2. Where is your significant other? Springville
3. Your hair color? Brown
4. Your mother? FUN
5. Your father? SHY
6. Your favorite thing? games
7. Your dream last night? nothing
8. Your dream/goal? HOUSE
9. The room you're in? Livingroom
10. Your hobby? scrapbooking
11. Your fear? drowning
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? anywhere
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? decisive
15. One of your wish-list items? photoshop
16. Where you grew up? Texas
17. The last thing you ate? crackers
18. What are you wearing? pajamas
19. Your TV? On
20. Your pet? none
21. Your computer? laptop
22. Your mood? content
23. Missing someone? Mom
24. Your car? Honda
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? OldNavy
27. Your summer? hot
28. Love someone? absolutely
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? saturday

That was a little tricky...

I award the following 7 people with the "I love your blog award" and in so doing tag them to complete the above questions.

Emily, Mom, Kacie, Kristin, Melissa, Heather, and Laura

Pumpkins

I suppose we all go to the pumpkin patch in October no matter where we are.  I have some friends that just posted pictures from their pumpkin patches in Texas and Washington.  I guess we all can't help ourselves when our kids look really cute around those round, orange pumpkins!  I spent a few hours at my friend's house on Saturday while Brian was at his GMAT prep course.  We had decided to go to the patch that day when he got out of the test.  We were able to go with my friend Lindsey and her husband, Rob, to the patch.  It was a lot of fun and we all seemed to have trouble committing on which ones to buy.  Brian, Tyson and I each got a pumpkin that represents our size.  This was our first time and it was lots of fun.  Thanks Linds and Rob for going with us!  This patch was great.  If you want to know where it is let me know.  It was really neat to look at them all attached to the vines. 

 

Our little pumpkin.  He did not want to sit still.  He wanted to touch every single pumpkin!

 

Me and Ty!

 

Friends forever!

Tyson with Daddy!  And below are some group shots at the end!