Charly's new sayings

Charly has quite the way of making all of us laugh sometimes. This week she has been full of new sayings and most of the time is with the response from me of "What was that". The other day I was putting water in the bath and she comes up behind me and asks me,

"Mom do you want a piece of me!"

Of course I was shocked by what she said so I asked her to repeat it. When I realized that I was correct in what she was saying I had to just laugh. I have no idea where they one came from.

Then last night I was doing the dishes and I hear her say,

"Mom shake your booty!"

Now I know where that one came from because her Aunt Hailey tells her little girl to shake her booty all the time. I just thought it was funny that she was saying it to me.

For all of you that do not know Charly is obsessed with the movie Mama Mia. She loves it. She knows the words to all the songs and is now doing some of the actions. So lately when we watch the movie when the song Don't go wasting your emotions come on she climbs up on my lap and puts her hands on my cheeks and sings to me. It is really quite funny. For those of you that have seen the movie she does the crawling in that screen also. I just have to giggle everytime that scene comes on.

As far as for the rest of us Chris will graduate two weeks from today. He has been working really had and we are really proud of him. Now if we could just find a job it would even be more exciting. I am doing good. The baby is really active. He definately wants to make sure I know he is there. The other night Chris felt him completely roll over and he asked me how I sleep when he is so active. Well lets say sometimes I don't. I am 27 weeks and things are going good. I am looking forward to some warm spring weather. Yesterday we got a foot of snow. It was really depressing, but that is Utah weather for you. It can snow one day and be 70 degrees the next week. Don't we all just love it. I promise to try and get some updated pictures this weekend and post them. Have a wonderful weekend.

LONG Needed update

Where did the last two months go. I am truly sorry it has taken me so long to update my blog. Life has been so busy at my house. Chris is going 100 miles a minute in school. We barely see him. But we only have four weeks to go and we will be done. He will officially graduate on May 1st. I am so proud of him.

Charly is getting so big and talking so much. She is getting to that stage where she wants to pick out her own clothes. If she could she would wear pajamas all day long. I have to tell her it is dirty so that she will get out of them. It has been warm off and on a little bit so I have been wearing flip flops and I have pulled hers out also. She now will not put socks on. She wants her sandals. She is more like her mom everyday.

Well for those of you who do not know we are having a

BOY.
We are so excited. I am still a little overwhelmed because I have no clue what to do with a boy. I didn't grow up with brothers, so I am pretty much clueless, but I think we will get through it. We have rearrange Charly's room to make room for him. I am 24 weeks along and to be honest I am ready for him to just get here. I am ready to just hold him and see him. I know, I know I have a long way to go. When I found out it was a boy everybody tells me that boys are easier and they are lazy so I have been praying for him to be a good baby. Well he is the most active little thing ever. So, so much for wishing for a lazy baby. He is already keeping me on my toes.

I promise to do better at keeping this blog up-to-date and I will add some pictures soon. Thanks for being patient with me. Talk to you all soon.

2009

"Ready, Get set, Go" 2009 is here and their is only one week left in the month of January. We have so many exciting things coming up this year I am afraid 2010 is going to be here sooner than I want it to be. Well let me tell you what is going on in our lives for 2009.

Charly made a great start by falling off of grandma's chair and getting a concussion on January 2nd. I mean she did even give us a full week into 09 before we had to have something happen. We didn't take her in but we new that is what she had. When she fell I have never heard her cry like that before. She was hurting. Lucky she did not try and caught her fall because she had a pencil in the other hand, so things could have been worse. When she stopped crying she immediately wanted to fall asleep. We kept her awake by giving her a bath but not ten minutes after her bath she through up. It was a really long night and I am just glad that it is over and that everything is good.

Chris will graduate in April. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! You have no idea how excited I am for him. He has really worked hard for this and it has been a long four years but we are finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

Lastly we are having another BABY. We are 15 weeks along and getting more and more excited everyday. This little one is due on July 14th. So lets all hope for my sake that it is a warm summer not and a scorching hot summer. We get to find out if this is a little boy or girl on the 17th of February if the baby corporates. Charly is going to be such a good big sister. For awhile we would tell her that mommy is going to have a baby. Her response to me was "Mommy, no baby." Now when I ask her where the baby is she points to my tummy. I am so excited her this new adventure and to continue the growth of our little family.

To add to that my sister Sydney is pregnant with me. She just found out that she is having a boy and I am so excited for her. She is two weeks ahead of me. I am so excited to be pregnant with her. It is fun.

Well I will keep all of you posted on things and I hope you all have a wonderful 2009.

Thanksgiving and Christmas

Over Thanksgiving we got to spend with my family. I love it when I get together with my sisters and we always have enough food to last days. We got the opportunity to spend five days up in Idaho. It was so nice to just sit around and do nothing. (And when I say nothing we literally did nothing) To me those are the find of breaks I love. I am not the type of person who like to be on the go all the time. I am more than satisfied with just hanging out with friends and family and just being together.

Doing the every other year this with Chris's family and mine with holidays made it that Christmas was in Utah this year. Which for me was excited yet sad. I am always sad when I do not get to see my family but I am learning to share. (Slowly but surely)

The month of December we got pounded with snow. When they say it is going to snow it snows. So the plan was that Chris's parents were going to come to our house Christmas morning. Then we starting thinking maybe we should just go up there. So we watched the weather and they kept saying their was going to be an awful storm on Christmas Day. So we were preparing that we were not going to go up their and we are glad we didn't. The road were yucky up in Ogden so it was a good thing we stayed home. I am going to stop rambling and get this post finished.

So we had Christmas by ourselves. We put Chary to bed Christmas Eve and we started putting out her fun stuff. Chris got to put together his first santa gift. I don't think he was thrilled about it but guess what it will not be your last. We got up the next morning and Charly walks out and looks at her new desk, the stroller, and the new baby doll. Then she looks under the tree and sees that their are tootsie rolls and we asks me to open it. So I guess that was more exciting then the rest. The first few presents she opened were some new sticker books, puzzles, and coloring books. By the time those were opened she was done. She did not want to open anything else. So we went and had breakfast, open presents from each other, and then just left the rest until Charly wanted to finish. I think we finished opening her last present at 6 pm that night. It was a nice relaxing day. We had fun. I have added some pictures to show you some of that morning.

Christmas Eve Frosting cookies for Santa

Opening her present Christmas Eve

Eating her tootsie roll

So excited about her books

My daughter is not a poser is she

Dad showing her how to use her MP3 Shaker from Grandma Lauri and Grandpa Terry


Charly and Dad

Charly and mom

Feeding her baby (she will be a good big sister someday)

Halloween 2008

This year for Halloween we got to go up to Idaho and spend it with my family. Charly got to go Trick or Treating with her cousins. It was fun to watch her. She has fun but you can tell my daughter is kind of a nerd when she asks at about the third house if they are going to give her a book. She loves books but I just had to laugh when she asked. Charly was a little Indian this year. I am not an artist so she just has triangles on her cheeks to represent her war painting.

Charly and Mom

Charly and her cousins

Taylor was no in the above picture and she was just to cute so I had to add her seperately.

Snapfish:Photo:Owned

Snapfish:Photo:Owned

Family Pictures

Over Halloween weekend my family got together and did family pictures. It has been a long time since we have had a professional take them and that chance for all of us to be there. They turned out so good.

The Leonardson Family


My little family

Mom and Dad with their girls

Mom and her daughters

It is not very often that you get to have a picture with all of us and I am so glad to finally have one. I can't wait for the time when I get to move closer to my sisters. I miss them so much.

Scentsy Consultant

Scentsy Consultant

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www.scentsy.com/ashleyd

Buy. Host. Join.

On October 24th I decided to become a Scentsy Consultant. I have never done something like this before but thought I would give it a try. I had my launch party on November 6th and then have had three parties since then. I have had so much fun being in my friends homes and seeing the excitement of people when they see how much fun Scentsy really is.

Now of all times is why I am so excited for Scentsy because of Christmas. Scentsy candles are amazing gifts. We have some really good packages just for this time of year. I really want to thank everyone that has supported me so far and hope that all of you will spread the word. Also if any of you want to Host a party let me know. It is so easy and you can earn so much free stuff. I hope all of you have wonderful Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays.

Love you all.

It has been awhile

Can you believe the month of November is only a week away. Thanksgiving is going to be here before I know it and then CHRISTMAS. Wow I am not ready for this. Most of all I am not ready for the cold weather and the SNOW. If the snow could stay on the side of the roads and not on them then I would enjoy winter more. Ok let me catch you up on what has been going on in our lives. It is not very interesting so don't get to excited.

The first of he month we went out and took family pictures. We had a good time. Our friend did such a good job. I love them.

Chris is half way through his semester at school. Which means we only have one more semester to go. I am so looking forward to him graduating. It will be nice to have College life behind us and have Chris start using the skills that he has learned. This is my opinion Chris may have a different one. All I can say is I am tired of being a single parent three nights a week.

Charly is talking more and more everyday. Her new thing right now is O KAY. I would tell her it is time for dinner or please take this to your room and her response is O KAY. She is really quite funny. This morning I was trying to get her up so we could get ready to go and I will tell you this my daughter is not a morning person. She must get that from her mom. I went in her room and turned her light on and tried to get her up so we could get dressed. She grumbled at me and told me no. So I left the room with the light on and went to finish getting ready myself. Next thing I know I hear her tell yell NO MOM and she slammed her door shut. I looked and Chris and thought "She did not just slam her door in my face". So what do you do. I don't think she really understands what she did, ok ya she probably does but I think I was so surprised by her actions that I didn't know what to do but laugh. Does is sound like I have a drama queen on my hands or what. I mean we bypassed the princess stage and went straight to queen.

Lastly we have a new pet in our house. Chris took Charly out yesterday and bought her two goldfish. When they called me and told me my first question was did you guy something to put them in. And of course he did. Then I asked what Charly thought. He told me that she wants to hold them. He said she keeps squeezing the bag. When I got home Charly took me in and showed me her fish. I asked her what their names were. She told me Dad and Mom. I laughed and asked her again. I guess we decided on Elmo and Blue. Not sure which one is which but those are there names. She was able to feed them last night and Chris told me that she kept telling them "UP FISH UP" because they weren't going up to get their food. I will keep you updated on how long they last.

7 Weird Things

My sister Lindsey and my friend Maria have tagged me to write 7 weird things about me. So here you go.

1. It frustrates me when a cupboard door is left open especially in my kitchen.

2. My closet it color coordinated. That way if I want to wear something black then I only have to look in one section.

3. I organize any candy I eat by colors. I eat all the duplicates first to where their is only one color of each left. Then I eat my least favorite color first leaving my favorite color to eat last.

4. I love to shop. It is not that fact of just going shopping it is a hunt for the good deal. The best deal I have ever found is I got a khaki jacket on sale for a dollar. It was great.

5. I hate wearing socks. I will wear flip flops or sandals until it snows. I do not care how cold it is I will not put socks on.

6. When we go grocery shopping I have to organize the cart. You can't just throw things in their it has to be in some kind of order.

I could only think of six for now. If I think of one more I will add it. I tagg Katie, Angelique, and Mardi.