Hey y’all!

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas with your families. I am still hanging out in southeast Oklahoma with my family. It has been wonderful to spend a few days down here with everyone. Here are a few pictures from our Christmas!

Christmas Eve, we went to Mom-mom and Grandaddy’s house to have Christmas with all of the family.

Mom-mom and Grandaddy with the grandkids

Cousins!

C made a sweet ornament for me!

Our tree!

After Mom-mom’s house, we went home to exchange gifts with just the four of us.

Awkward arm shelf :)

I got some really cute clothes!

Taylor Swift’s Journey to Fearless DVD!

Daddy got an iPod touch

Momma got a new digital video camera

Colby got a watch

Hershey had a great time playing in all of the wrapping paper

I got money for my BlissDom ticket!!

We opened our stockings on Christmas morning before church

After church, we went back to Mom-mom and Grandaddy’s for lunch.

Marcel came over to exchange gifts. He and Colby played air hockey and Wipeout on Kinect!

Jessica and I exchanged gifts on Christmas Eve

She got me a ladybug necklace from Vintage Pearl! I loooooove it!

Sweet P and Aunt Ashley!

She had the cutest Christmas outfit! “Little Miss Glamorous!”

It’s hard to believe that Christmas is already over! We had such a wonderful time!

The winner of the My Memories giveaway is Mia! Mia, I will contact you!

*Don’t forget to check out my post on In My Twenties!*

Hey y’all!

Between Christmas shopping and Christmas parties, I have watched absolutely NO real TV this week, so I really don’t have anything for y’all today. I’d love to see what y’all have been watching! Link up with Neely and me!

Hey y’all!

Today, I’m borrowing a little Christmas quiz that I saw on Amber’s blog on Monday!

Hands down, hot chocolate. Preferably from Starbucks with peppermint in it :)

Santa usually does a little bit of both. The big item will be unwrapped along with a couple of smaller ones. The rest will be wrapped.

Always white. I think they look so much prettier.

Nope, we never have

At my parents house, we usually do it the weekend of Thanksgiving because it’s usually the last time Colby and I are home before Christmas. Up here, I usually try to have it up pretty quickly after Thanksgiving.

Dread it. It’s pretty to look at as long as I can stay inside, but I hate being cold, I hate when the snow gets yucky, and I hate having to drive in it. I would rather it stay away.

I have been ice skating once, my freshman year of college. I went with the guy I was dating and some friends. I could roller skate and roller blade, so it was pretty easy for me. It was fun!

I do! My favorite gift is a sweet doll named Robin. This doll went everywhere with me. I still have her, and I hope to pass her along to my little girl one day!

Definitely spending time with my family. It’s nice to get away from the craziness of every day life and just be together. Also, I love getting to eat Momma’s Paula Deen brownies :)

See questions 6 and 14.

I love our ornament tradition! I blogged about it on Regina’s blog and In My Twenties recently.

I have a silver bow at the top of my tree.

Of course both are lots of fun, but I just love giving! I love seeing someone’s reactions when they open something I’ve picked out. It’s exciting!

They aren’t bad, but they are messy!

I don’t really watch many Christmasy TV shows, but my favorite Christmas movies are Elf, The Family Stone, and Love Actually.

“My Grown-Up Christmas List” turns me into a puddle.

*NSYNC’s “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays”, duh.


Hey y’all!

I hope y’all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was really busy, and I am POOPED!

Friday night, I babysat J and A. We had a great time, and we made paperplate snowmen I found on Pinterest.

They were soooooo much fun!

Every time I take pictures of the kids with their crafts, they always want to take my picture with mine! Romeo jumped in the picture too.

Saturday afternoon was Tracy’s babies’ 1st birthday party!

They had an adorable Thing 1 and Thing 2 party! Tracy did a fantastic job.

Me with the birthday babies and their sweet momma!

It is incredibly hard to believe they are a year old already! Time has flown by, and God has brought them so far this year. Tracy and I had a few moments to talk about how scary things were when they were born, how little they were, the day she went into preterm labor, the day she found out she was having twins (after I’d been teasing her about having twins), and the day she first told me she was pregnant. So many prayers have gone up for these sweet babies, and God answered our prayers in such a phenomenal way! Birthday parties are so special, but this one was extra sweet!

Sunday evening, my Q group met for a Christmas party. We shared a wonderful meal and had a Christmas ornament exchange. I was a terrible blogger and took no pictures :(

One of the ornaments from our exchange last year came back this year, and it was the first ornament opened.

Yeah, that’s a Michael Jackson ornament. We decided that it should come back every year and go home with someone new!

A couple of fun things are happening around here this week. First of all, I am so excited to announce that I am joining the team over at In My Twenties as the Tuesday blogger!

Neely, Heather, Jessica, and Leslie are all great girls, and I’m thrilled to be blogging with them. My first post goes up tomorrow, and I would love it if you would check it out!

Also, I will be guest posting on Neely’s blog on Wednesday for her 5 Do’s and a Don’t series. Be sure to stop by and read it!

I hope y’all have an awesome week!



I don’t know about y’all, but I was a huge Fear Factor fan back when it was originally on. I know, ME of all people! I would never in a million years do any of the stunts on that show, but I sure loved to watch other people!

Did y’all watch? Link up your TV talk with Neely and me!

Also, don’t forget to enter my giveaway!

Hope y’all have an awesome weekend!

Hey y’all!

I am super excited to share a fun giveaway with y’all today!

I was recently contacted by My Memories, a digital scrabooking software company. I received their My Memories Suite software to try out.

I have always been a big scrapbooker, but I have always done it the old-fashioned way. With all of my pictures being digital, I was very excited to get to try a digital program.

My Memories Suite has so many great scrapbook options! There are fun premade album templates where you just plug in your pictures and words to create cute pages.

There are also TONS of cute backgrounds and embellishments to create your own pages!

The program was very user-friendly. All of the pages above took minutes to create. I am definitely looking forward to putting together more fun albums!

So, what’s in it for you?

My Memories is offering one of my readers their own My Memories Suite software program! If you are a scrapbooker, I think you will definitely enjoy this software.

Here’s how to enter:

*Mandatory: Be a follower of Ashley’s Carnival Ride and visit My Memories website and tell me the name of your favorite digital kit.

Extra entries:

Follow me on the Twit

Follow My Memories on the Twit

‘Like’ Ashley’s Carnival Ride on Facebook

‘Like’ My Memories on Facebook

This giveaway will close next Thursday, December 22nd at noon central time.

Also, if you don’t want to wait for the giveaway, My Memories is also offering a $10 discount on My Memories Suite for my readers. Enter the code STMMMS49654 at checkout to receive your discount.

 

 

What are you pinning this week? Link up with Michelle!

 

*Also, don’t forget about my giveaway tomorrow! I think it’s going to be fun!

…*NSYNC’s “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” plays on your iPod.

Hope y’all are having a great week so far! I’m having a little bit of blogger’s block this week, and I hope to be back on track in a day or two. I have a giveaway coming on Thursday, so be sure to look for that!