Lysabeth's Favorite Things

Oprah does a show of her "favorite things" and now...I do too! So I want to share a couple of my absolute favorite things:

The 1969 Jeans from GAP




My favorite jeans! They are mid-rise, stretch denim and come in long sizes! Every pair of jeans in every store across america comes in low-rise which I hate. I don't like to exaggerate the muffin top, I like to tuck everything in. Love em.


Ballmania Lip Balm


Premium lip balm SPF-20. I found this lip balm in the gift shop at the Luxor Hotel in Vegas. It's the best lip balm in the world! It lasts all day and is pure medicine for your lips. I cannot live without it. I have to buy it on ebay now since my Vegas one ran out. Not your mama's blistex.


Katy Perry Black Shatter Nailpolish






This one is new for me. I bought some two days ago and I love it! You paint your nails any color you want, and then apply the black on top and it shatters and makes this animal print design. It really works. I'm a fan. I read a newspaper article on it a few weeks ago, about how salons can't keep it in stock since it's so popular. I can see why.


Lindor Truffles



Most delicious chocolate treat in the world. Melts in your mouth....lasts only a few minutes...cuz I eat them all!


Settlers of Catan




I love this game, but have not played it in ages. It's fun and addicting. It's like monopoly tho and takes a couple hours to play. Love it.

Wedding Present

A neighbor gave this crock pot to us for a wedding present 11 years ago. I still have it and we still use it once a week! The best wedding present to give someone. I cannot live without it.

Julie and Julia




Move over Top Gun, there's a new favorite movie of mine! I love food and Julia Child and that makes this my new favorite movie. I've tried making some of her recipes and they are amazing. Now I make my scrambled eggs Julia style.

Okay bloggers that's it! Now I want to see some of your favorite things!

It's been a while

You see this old man playing the organ? Well that's me, every other Sunday. That's my new calling. Playing the piano and the organ are NOT the same thing. I like playing the piano. I do not like playing the organ.

Nothing new going on at the Christensen house. Shaylee is taking gymnastics and loves it! She gets better every week. She starts soccer again in 2 weeks. I am not looking forward to freezing cold rainy soccer games. Kate starts preschool in the fall, that is if I can get her in anywhere. Everyone's booked. Tyler is so much fun. He is a really cool kid. He turns 3 this year and I think we will take him to ride the trains in Farmington. I thought that he would be into Star Wars and super heros, but he likes trains. Aaron is still working for Marketstar and loves it. He is nervously awating a new calling...hee hee hee. CO-ORGANIST! Just kidding. And I still work at Cinemark and nervously waiting to meet my new boss. Stay tuned.

Surviving Christmas

Well, we survived Christmas. Aaron was out of town for 6 weeks for work. He had to go to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania every week for 6 weeks right during the Holidays. It's one of those things where you're glad he did it AFTER it's over. But we survived none-the-less. The kids had a wonderful Christmas. Tyler finally got his cozy coupe and trains and the girls got a giant size barbie dollhouse. Every girl needs a dollhouse.






We took the kids sledding for New Years Eve. I've never been so cold in my life. It must have only been 13 degrees outside that day.



We finally got to ride the front runner to Salt Lake to see the lights. This is Tyler anxiously waiting for the train. He loves trains. You can see it on his face.





The girls at temple square.

Mystery Dinner

Every year the Christensens have a Halloween party. The past couple years we've been doing mystery dinners. This year was Pirates. Everyone's costumes were really great this year! It has been so much fun to see all the different ideas that each one of us comes up with. I couldn't remember the girl names, but I wrote the boy names.


Long John Silver

Blue Beard

Cabin Boy

Blind Pew

Captain Henry Morgan

Black Widow











We took the kiddies to trick or treat at the Dinosaur Park. Ty is a scarecrow this year and we made his hat. I took lots of pics cause he's just so dang cute.

Layton Lightning

RED

Red heads have less hairs on their head than blondes or brunettes.







So I got this idea to write a blog about Tyler's beautiful red hair. Can I just tell you how cute I think this boy is! There's only two things in this world that he needs, his sippy cup and his blanket. - Oh, and an unlimited supply of Baby Einstein videos- Every time he sees a white car he yells "Big Guy!" That is code for Aaron. He love to eat tomatoes and Lucky Charms and he loves to play with his Chevron cars. I love that he always says "Daddy" with a British accent. I can't get mad at him. I tried once....I just couldn't do it.

I LOVE his red hair! So I did a little research about redheads and here is what I found:

Did you know that only 2-4% of the human population has red hair? Red hair is most common in the northern and wester European countries. Scotland has the most redheads, Ireland has the second. About 46% of the Irish population carry the gene for red hair. So how does hair come out red? Especially when neither Aaron or I have it? Well, when the person receives two copies of the recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein. People can carry the gene, but not have red hair. I'm pretty sure AC and I both carry it. The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive color. They have more of this light pigment than they do of dark pigment. Fair skin is associated with red hair, and freckles. This is because redheads have low concentrations of eumelanin throughout the body. They are also able to produce more Vitamin D in low sunlight than blondes and brunettes. Red hair is the rarest natural color in humans. I found a list of significant persons throughout history that you didn't know had red hair:

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Napolean Bonaparte - We're actually not really sure on this one
Christopher Columbus
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
Antonio Vivaldi - composer "The 4 Seasons"
King David - he kicked the crap out of Goliath
Galileo Galilei - Italian astronomer and physicist
Cleopatra
Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Winston Churchill
Vincent Van Gogh
King Henry VIII
Calvin Coolidge
John Glenn - astronaut, politician
Charles Darwin
William Clark - of Lewis and Clark
Danny Elfman - composer
Marily Monroe
JK Rowling - author of Harry Potter books
Sarah Ferguson - Dutchess of York
Willie Nelson
Conan O'Brien
Harold "Red" Grange - football hero
John Beck - was quarterback for BYU



I'd like to be able to say my son grew up to be the first redhead President, but I can't. He could be the 5th tho. He could be TY CHRISTENSEN - quarterback for BYU! He could be the next big politician, composer, author, poet, artist or late night talk show host! He is definetly funny. Either way, I love Tyler and I hope he grows up to accomplish great things and possibly make history! Red hair rocks!

End of Another Summer

THE LAYTON LIGHTENINGS! This was Shaylee's first soccer game this season. Actually, this was the second, the first time she went to the ER instead of the game. She chose number 4 because that was always Aaron's number when he played soccer.




My garden was very successful with peppers, so it was a HOT summer! The wildlife ate every tomato that turned out, so I didn't get any yummy tomatoes this year. Grandma Sheryn always grows good tomatoes so I ate some of hers.

NUMBERS!

1. The number of trips to the ER this year.
2. Number of times pulled over. (But only one citation thank you very much)
3. Number of temples visited this summer.
4. Number of trips to the splash pad.
5. Number of barbies Shaylee has gotten for herself.
6. Number of times Tyler watches Baby Einstein each day.
7. Number of times a week Kate pees her pants.
8. Number of months until Disneyland (maybe)
9. Number of trips to Lagoon.
10. Number of movies I've seen this summer.
12. Number of BYU games this season.
13. Number of times I've eaten at Cafe Rio this summer. (and that's just Thursdays!)
zero. How many more kids we're gonna have.