Monday, January 18, 2010

Sports Photo Shoot

Tysen and I went to the park with all of his different sports ball to take pictures for his new "big boy" room. It is sports themed and I wanted some cute framed pictures of him playing sports...HIS FAVORITE!

Now I just don't know which ones to pick.





















Friday, January 15, 2010

All That Matters is...He Thinks He is Helping

I was cleaning out the pantry and It was one of those times that I was so focused, I blocked out all other sounds from my brain.
Tysen was in the kitchen with me but I did not notice the work that he was doing. He was very busy as well.
He opened the dish washer and decided to unload it. I caught him in the middle of putting away the silverware (yes, even the knives) in the silverware drawer. He knew exactly where those went. He just wasn't tall enough to sort them.
He took out the plates too. After opening several cupboards, I guess, he figured that the plates didn't belong in any of the cupboards that he had opened because he eventually put them on the dining room table.
Even though I had to put all of the dishes where they really belonged, it was so sweet to see all the effort he put into putting the dishes away in, what he thought, was the right spot.
(please let this be a permanent trait of his)
I couldn't ask for anymore.

Friday, January 1, 2010

2 year old Check Up!

Tysen, you are 2 already and doing great!
Aside from getting the flu like three times this season, You are healthy and very smart.

You do not have anymore physical therapy (because you were doing too well)

and your understanding for things has shot through the roof!

You weigh 29 pounds and stand 32 1/2 inches tall.

You are in the 50% for your age, even though people are constantly commenting on what a
BIG, solid boy you are.

You are such a healthy boy.


Being 2 has brought on some new and interesting attributes.

You now have a mean voice and a nice voice and you are learning when to use them.

You also have quite a temper and you like to FREAK OUT when you don't get your way.

There is also hitting and a little bit of scratching which usually leads to time out and then a sweet hug and kiss. (time out is a new 2 year old activity that we have now)

You test Mommy and Daddy to see how far you can go before you get into trouble.... you've tested this theory many times and yet it seems that you still need to test it over and over and over and over!

Aside from all the "normal" 2 year old behavior, you have become quite the talker! You like to talk a lot and you come up with new words everyday. You surprise Mommy and Daddy with how much you understand.

You can count to twenty (with the exception of 3 numbers)

And you are very interested in your alphabet.
You like to ask everyone "How Do'in?"
and you like to ask "What time is it?" every five seconds.
You LOVE to be around people! You love to say "hi" and "bye" to everyone in the store...which usually starts up a conversation, which makes every shopping trip take about double the time it should.
You have an amazing memory!
After meeting someone once, you will always remember their name and you will make sure to call them by their name.

You have memorized the words to many songs.

When we drive somewhere familiar you always tell Mommy where she is going.

And, because you have an OBSESSION with climbing stairs, you seem to always remember the places that have stairs.
(the stair obsession is getting to be a bit much)

You are a very sweet boy. You love to ask for "suggles" from Mommy and Daddy. You say your own prayers and you make sure Mommy and Daddy are both present before you say them. You hug and kiss Mommy and Daddy randomly (my favorite).

And if anyone around you is emotional you make sure to ask if they are "ok?" and then you get emotional too.

You love to say "bless you" when ever anyone sneezes.
Tysen you get funner and funner to watch grow. You sure are more of a handful now and you can really bring down the house when you are mad, but you also bring a lot of joy and love to our world. You are a happy, outgoing, emotional (cry at the drop of a hat... like Mommy), loving 2 year old boy!
We really are lucky!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Morning 2009

I loved Tysen's face when he saw his power wheel quad bike. He rode it around and had to get a feel for it. He kept pulsing the button that makes it go. so he was stop and go for a while until he figured out that if he held it down it would keep going. :-) We took more video this year than pictures. So we only have the one family picture. That is ok because we can watch the great video footage we got.
Tysen got:
Aquadoodle
computer
shopping cart
train set
tonka trucks
microphone
....among other things
Daddy got:
Bike
Universal Remote
Sage TV
some tools
blue ray DVDs
cologne
Mommy got:
Necklace
Lens
cricut
VS Jammies
Perfume
"Gone With the Wind" Blue Ray
Here we are in our matching jammies on Christmas Morning.
This Christmas morning was special because we were able to deliver some presents to a needy family. It was a very special experience to shop for each person and to deliver them (anonymously) on their door step Christmas morning. We were able to teach Tysen about giving this year which is something we want to be a priority every year.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Grand Canyon/ Polar Express..Choo Choo

For our Christmas vacation we took a trip to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon and to ride on the Polar Express train. The Grand Canyon was so gorgeous with all the snow around. We took one train to the Grand Canyon; then, we got back and rode on the Polar Express train, where we met Santa Claus. Tysen now has a new found love for trains since experiencing them first hand.
This vacation was the perfect thing to do before Christmas to get us in the spirit! It was filled with lots of fun family time and beautiful scenery. And we got to experience the prettiest white Christmas ever.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Merry Christmas!

We didn't get as many of these out this year as we would've liked So, we just wanted to make sure we wished all of our friends and loved ones a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Decorating the Christmas Tree 2009

We got our tree the other weekend and it has been sadly bare until now. We woke up today and it felt like the perfect time to decorate out tree. So we got out our plastic ornaments and our colorful lights and decked out the tree. Tysen was all over the place trying to do everything at once. He was so amazed by all the new "toys" that were brought down from the attic to decorate the tree with. He didn't want us to do anything without him, until after about 15 min, then he was ready to move on to bigger and better things.
Setting up the (non breakable) nativity scene.

Putting up ornaments with Mommy


Trying to do it himself.."I can do it Mommy"



Helping daddy put the hooks on



Maybe Daddy can help

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Work Christmas Party

Since I was young, I have always LOVED to get all dressed up to go somewhere. I still get very excited and in this case it was much needed. I am 7 1/2 months pregnant and I really needed to take time for myself. Getting all prettied up rejuvenates the soul, I think. Even though it didn't start out very fun because when I went shopping for a dress I only got more depressed as I looked at my round figure in a bunch of ill fitting dresses. Thank goodness I came across this dress, which isn't even a maternity dress, because I was about to give up and it would've resulted in wearing sweats to Dan's Christmas Party. :-)
The Work Christmas Party was fun and I even won a $50 gift card. We had a yummy dinner and had a great time spending our fake money at the mock casino night. I am getting pretty good at Black Jack, I'm too scared to play anything else...maybe next year.
I was very proud to be on my hubby's arm all night. He always makes me feel like the only woman in the room. He looked very handsome as well. I even loved that we were color coordinated (like prom or something)
It was exactly the night I needed with my husband.


Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas Stockings

I wanted to do these last year but there were...complications

So, I made sure to get them done this year before CHRISTMAS!
And even though my house is in shambles, I should be doing a million other things and my child was a little neglected for a day...We will have stockings for Christmas!
I'll go straighten out my priorities now :-)
...I'll do the new baby's next year






Friday, December 11, 2009

BIG BOY BED!

This had to happen before the baby came....


And it did...with little to no problems. (except that Mommy cried at the sight of her big boy in his big boy bed)


Mommy's Number 24 Birthday

DISNEYLAND!!

Love the lights
Love the rides
Love that Tysen wanted to ride the carousel 20 times
Love the music
Loved Tysen's face on the Pirates of the Caribbean
Love that it is Christmas time
Love that I got to spend my Birthday with my Family!

Why is he crying....it's Disneyland!

Cookie Day!

Every year we have a cookie day with Dan's family and we make gingerbread houses. This year we had it in our backyard. The kids made some cool houses and by the end of it we had candy everywhere and frosting all over the concrete, the basketball hoop, the hammock, and the KIDS! What is cookie day without FROSTING WARS!
Dan working hard on the construction...I said I would decorate :-)


Working away, trying to build the BEST!

Decorating our mini-me house


We ended up with a pool and all...the boys were very creative but, mommy made the house look gooood!

Everyone with their awesome houses!
Love this tradition!

Tysen's Number 2 Party

SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTED 11/25/09

For Tysen's number 2 birthday we just had Family over for dinner and sang happy birthday! Aunt Emily made an Elmo pinata that Tysen was not sure about hitting at first...But, after all the other kids hit the Elmo head Ty got right in there with them. Aunt Shelley (the cake expert) made the Elmo cake which was SUPER yummy. And Ty loved all of his Elmo decorations (which we left up for a few days just for fun). Tysen got lots of ELMO toys (are you starting to see a pattern yet?)and he got his first Geo Tracks set.
We have a tradition in our family that after the Happy Birthday song is sung and the candles get blown out the Birthday person has to BITE THE CAKE!
Tysen completely went for it...no questions asked!
Tysen is so good at being the center of attention...he thrives off of it!