Several of you have asked where Ryan got my blog printed at.....so here it is! The company is called Sharedbook and here is a direct link to their blog printing side (guess they do other stuff as well):
http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html
It looks pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any other questions just ask and I'll ask Ryan! It took about took a couple of weeks from when he ordered it to when I got it. But overall, he said it was pretty easy to do! One regret he has (ha ha, sounds so serious!) is that he said he wished he put the date range on the spine of the book. He just put "Dwinell Days" but he said he wished he would have put the dates it covered. Oh well- they are listed on every blog post but I'm just relaying what he is telling me!
Anyone who wants me to give a hint hint to their husband for a Mother's Day present- just let me know! Ha Ha!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Late Christmas present!
I got a late Christmas present! Ryan had my blog printed into a hardback book for me and it just arrived a few days ago. I was so excited and surprised to get this!! It is a hardback book with all of my blog posts in order with color pictures and the captions above the pictures just as I write it on here! So cool! It is 350 pages and it is something I will always treasure. Thanks Ryan for remembering that I mentioned wanting this (a long time ago!) and for researching how to do it and surprising me with it! I love it!
It's on nice paper and the quality of the pictures is really good!
Family pic on the front
Pic of Addy and Ben on the back cover
The inside cover reads:
It's on nice paper and the quality of the pictures is really good!
Family pic on the front
Pic of Addy and Ben on the back cover
The inside cover reads:
To my wonderful wife. Thank you for doing such a wonderful job of documenting the last few years of our growing family. Love, Ryan
Ahh, so sweet!
Mexico here we come!!
I had a really good sales year this last year! Woo-Hoo! I made President's Club and so Ryan and I get to go to Riviera Maya area in Mexico (by CanCun) for 5 days! We are getting excited and it will be a nice little break before I get super busy for the spring semester. I came in the number 2 Math/Science rep and the #3 rep overall in the company (out of 450 reps!).
Laying on the beach drinking daquiris sounds like lots of fun right about now!!
Laying on the beach drinking daquiris sounds like lots of fun right about now!!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Addyson!
Little Addyson Tate. My precious baby girl! She has been so sweet lately and I haven't done a blog post on just her in a while. Last weekend (on Saturday) she woke up from her nap and was crying that her ear hurt. Now, to me, this is serious. Addyson has a super high pain tolerance and rarely complains about something hurting. She is the type to fall, bump her head, scrape her leg, whatever and jump up and say "I'm okay!!" and run off. So, when she says something is hurting, is must be REALLY hurting!
I gave her some Tylenol and again, in true Lisa fashion, I called the doctor right away. I mean it was Saturday and if Addyson had an ear infection, I didn't want to wait until Monday to treat it. Dr. Sampson told me to get some over the counter ear drops for the pain (which did help- Simalicin if anyone needs them, they are all natural and just help with ear pain) and told me to call her in the morning if it was still bothering her. I gave them to Addyson and they did seem to help. She was back to normal. Sunday morning she woke up and wasn't complaining about her ear. I asked her if it hurt and she said, "Yes, really bad". I called Dr. Sampson ( only because she told me too!!) and she went ahead and called her in some antibiotics. Sunday afternoon Addyson went down for a nap and woke up with all kinds of fun gooey stuff coming out of her ear. Her hair next to her left ear was all wet and inside her ear was nice and yucky! Lovely- bursted ear drum! This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened to her. I am a little (or maybe more than a little) worried about hearing loss. So, I called Dr. Sampson for a third time that weekend (I am sounding like one of "those moms"....or maybe I am!) just to make sure there wasn't anything she would change or anything else I needed to do and she did prescribe her antibiotic ear drops. So, good thing I called! :) We went in Monday morning to get it all checked out and low and behold she has a nice hole in her ear drum. Poor baby! Dr. S said that when the ear drum bursts it is very painful and she couldn't believe that Addyson had only complained about it the day before. Within 24 hours it had bursted. So, we go back to the ENT the last week of January to make sure everything has healed. Most likely it will heal on its own, she may have to have another tube in or it may be necessary to patch the hole in her eardrum if it does not heal properly. Let's hope and pray for option number 1! She does not like me putting in the ear drops and tonight she was screaming that her ear hurt really badly. Again, hasn't complained about it since last weekend so if she says it is hurting again I am a little worried that something might be wrong. Knowing me, we'll drop by the Dr. tomorrow just to get it checked out. Okay, okay, I am one of those "would rather be safe than sorry" moms! :) Say a little prayer for Addyson that her ear heals and that she does not have any hearing loss. Thank you!
Also, Addyson has been having some bad dreams/scary moments at night. A few days ago she was talking about ghosts. This was after she had been watching Harry Potter, which she loves. I think that might be a little big for her and I'm going to have to maybe not let her watch that for now. At 6:15 this morning I head a VERY loud shrill scream at the top of her lungs and then I jumped out of bed. She was running down the hallway screaming and crying and said a ghost had been in her room and he was tickling her on the back and laughing, Ha Ha Ha (in a mean little voice). Ahh, poor baby! How scary that must have been. She was shaking and crying and so scared. She jumped in bed with us and cuddled until I could muster myself out of bed at 7. She was really scared poor thing! Let's hope she gets over this little phase. Tonight she wanted to sleep with her door open and the hall light on.
Addyson has also been using such grown up language lately. And by grown up, I just mean big words! It's so funny to hear her sweet little voice with such big words and her r's as w's. Like this morning I was talking to her about the "ghost" and she said (in a very serious voice), "Mom, it was just so mystewious that ghost in my room". Ha- no I didn't mis-spell mysterious, just wrote it how she would say it (Shout out to Wonder Pets for this I am sure!!)! Also, when I ask her to do something like, "Hey Addyson will you go throw this away for me" or something like that, she'll laugh and smile and say, "oh surely mom" and go help me out. Such the big girl helper!
I just absolutely love the age she is at! Another thing we do at night (this might sound cheesy, but it is seriously such a sweet little moment) is we do butterfly kisses, eskimo kisses and then Addy kisses (which is just a peck on the lips). She loves this and so do I!
I signed her up for soccer this spring, so we are excited to try that out! I also want to enroll her in gymnastics but just haven't done it yet. Fun times!!
I gave her some Tylenol and again, in true Lisa fashion, I called the doctor right away. I mean it was Saturday and if Addyson had an ear infection, I didn't want to wait until Monday to treat it. Dr. Sampson told me to get some over the counter ear drops for the pain (which did help- Simalicin if anyone needs them, they are all natural and just help with ear pain) and told me to call her in the morning if it was still bothering her. I gave them to Addyson and they did seem to help. She was back to normal. Sunday morning she woke up and wasn't complaining about her ear. I asked her if it hurt and she said, "Yes, really bad". I called Dr. Sampson ( only because she told me too!!) and she went ahead and called her in some antibiotics. Sunday afternoon Addyson went down for a nap and woke up with all kinds of fun gooey stuff coming out of her ear. Her hair next to her left ear was all wet and inside her ear was nice and yucky! Lovely- bursted ear drum! This is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened to her. I am a little (or maybe more than a little) worried about hearing loss. So, I called Dr. Sampson for a third time that weekend (I am sounding like one of "those moms"....or maybe I am!) just to make sure there wasn't anything she would change or anything else I needed to do and she did prescribe her antibiotic ear drops. So, good thing I called! :) We went in Monday morning to get it all checked out and low and behold she has a nice hole in her ear drum. Poor baby! Dr. S said that when the ear drum bursts it is very painful and she couldn't believe that Addyson had only complained about it the day before. Within 24 hours it had bursted. So, we go back to the ENT the last week of January to make sure everything has healed. Most likely it will heal on its own, she may have to have another tube in or it may be necessary to patch the hole in her eardrum if it does not heal properly. Let's hope and pray for option number 1! She does not like me putting in the ear drops and tonight she was screaming that her ear hurt really badly. Again, hasn't complained about it since last weekend so if she says it is hurting again I am a little worried that something might be wrong. Knowing me, we'll drop by the Dr. tomorrow just to get it checked out. Okay, okay, I am one of those "would rather be safe than sorry" moms! :) Say a little prayer for Addyson that her ear heals and that she does not have any hearing loss. Thank you!
Also, Addyson has been having some bad dreams/scary moments at night. A few days ago she was talking about ghosts. This was after she had been watching Harry Potter, which she loves. I think that might be a little big for her and I'm going to have to maybe not let her watch that for now. At 6:15 this morning I head a VERY loud shrill scream at the top of her lungs and then I jumped out of bed. She was running down the hallway screaming and crying and said a ghost had been in her room and he was tickling her on the back and laughing, Ha Ha Ha (in a mean little voice). Ahh, poor baby! How scary that must have been. She was shaking and crying and so scared. She jumped in bed with us and cuddled until I could muster myself out of bed at 7. She was really scared poor thing! Let's hope she gets over this little phase. Tonight she wanted to sleep with her door open and the hall light on.
Addyson has also been using such grown up language lately. And by grown up, I just mean big words! It's so funny to hear her sweet little voice with such big words and her r's as w's. Like this morning I was talking to her about the "ghost" and she said (in a very serious voice), "Mom, it was just so mystewious that ghost in my room". Ha- no I didn't mis-spell mysterious, just wrote it how she would say it (Shout out to Wonder Pets for this I am sure!!)! Also, when I ask her to do something like, "Hey Addyson will you go throw this away for me" or something like that, she'll laugh and smile and say, "oh surely mom" and go help me out. Such the big girl helper!
I just absolutely love the age she is at! Another thing we do at night (this might sound cheesy, but it is seriously such a sweet little moment) is we do butterfly kisses, eskimo kisses and then Addy kisses (which is just a peck on the lips). She loves this and so do I!
I signed her up for soccer this spring, so we are excited to try that out! I also want to enroll her in gymnastics but just haven't done it yet. Fun times!!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Merry Christmas Day!!
Christmas Day was lots and lots of fun! Addyson is at a PERFECT age for all of this and that makes Christmas so wonderful! She woke up Christmas morning and was super excited that Santa had come! Bennie Boo didn't quite know what to think! He found some wrapping paper and a candy cane full of M&M's and he was a happy camper!
Wow! Look at all of my stuff!
Mmmm, this is a good teether!
And a yummy box!
Addyson got so much fun stuff! Dolls, a Horse, Moon Dough, books, accessories, clothes, you name it!
Ben got a sit and spin zebra! Woo Hoo!
Later that morning Addyson had a bought with her asthma. Poor baby!
After we opened up all of our presents at home from Santa we headed over to MiMi and PaPa's house. (My mom and dad!) The girls were very excited!
Lots of fun presents over here! Ariel jammies!
Book with Addyson's name in it!
Ben was entertained by the Jack in the Box!
Cute rain boots!
Lots of clothes! Thanks MiMi!
Yea!! I love presents!
Addyson LOVES stuffed animals.....she got a Simba!
Ben got lots of fun stuff too! Books, trucks, clothes, toys!
Addyson got a talking Jesse doll. This was definitely her Toy Story Christmas! She got Toy Story 3, Jesse, and a whole set of Toy Story figurines. It's her newest obsession!
My mom got the girls a princess tent to keep at her house- they loved it!
While the girls were off playing and Ben was asleep, the adults finally got to open some presents!
Next came my parents surprise. In October we had Paige take Addyson, Hallie and Ben's pictures. I have been dieing to give them the pics and so I was excited to finally be able to show them! Paige, they LOVED them! Yea!
Then came the tears when she saw ALL of them- they really were surprised and loved getting the pics! They had no idea and so that was a fun surprise!
Ben woke up from a nap and got to open his presents! Little Brother jammies!
He really likes this toy!
Lots of books to chew on. He has started liking books more lately!
A big Wonder Pets toy that sissy was a little jealous of. She loves Wonder Pets- I'll open this one when Ben gets a little bigger!
Love this picture of Bennie Boo! He was ready for some Christmas dinner! Showing off his 2 bottom toofers! (Which is as of this posting bottom 4 toofers- he got 2 teeth in the last 2 weeks!)
Ryan hanging up the pics. There are actually 2 more but I didn't get a final picture.
After all the days excitement there is nothing like a group bath! Ha!
Ben sure thought it was fun! :)
Thank you mom and dad for all of your hard work! Christmas day was perfect and so much fun! We all had such a nice time. Love you!!
Good morning Ben! Merry First Christmas!
Wow! Look at all of my stuff!
Mmmm, this is a good teether! 
And a yummy box!
Addyson got so much fun stuff! Dolls, a Horse, Moon Dough, books, accessories, clothes, you name it!
Ben got a sit and spin zebra! Woo Hoo!
Later that morning Addyson had a bought with her asthma. Poor baby! 
After we opened up all of our presents at home from Santa we headed over to MiMi and PaPa's house. (My mom and dad!) The girls were very excited!
Lots of fun presents over here! Ariel jammies!
Book with Addyson's name in it!
Ben was entertained by the Jack in the Box!
Cute rain boots!
Lots of clothes! Thanks MiMi!
Yea!! I love presents!
Addyson LOVES stuffed animals.....she got a Simba! 
Ben got lots of fun stuff too! Books, trucks, clothes, toys!
Addyson got a talking Jesse doll. This was definitely her Toy Story Christmas! She got Toy Story 3, Jesse, and a whole set of Toy Story figurines. It's her newest obsession!
My mom got the girls a princess tent to keep at her house- they loved it!
While the girls were off playing and Ben was asleep, the adults finally got to open some presents!We got my parents a food saver. We use ours all the time and love it!
Next came my parents surprise. In October we had Paige take Addyson, Hallie and Ben's pictures. I have been dieing to give them the pics and so I was excited to finally be able to show them! Paige, they LOVED them! Yea!
Then came the tears when she saw ALL of them- they really were surprised and loved getting the pics! They had no idea and so that was a fun surprise!
Ben woke up from a nap and got to open his presents! Little Brother jammies!
He really likes this toy!
Lots of books to chew on. He has started liking books more lately!
A big Wonder Pets toy that sissy was a little jealous of. She loves Wonder Pets- I'll open this one when Ben gets a little bigger!
Love this picture of Bennie Boo! He was ready for some Christmas dinner! Showing off his 2 bottom toofers! (Which is as of this posting bottom 4 toofers- he got 2 teeth in the last 2 weeks!)
Ryan hanging up the pics. There are actually 2 more but I didn't get a final picture. 
After all the days excitement there is nothing like a group bath! Ha!
Ben sure thought it was fun! :)
Thank you mom and dad for all of your hard work! Christmas day was perfect and so much fun! We all had such a nice time. Love you!!Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve morning always starts with a brunch at Grams' house. This is one of my favorite things we do! Everyone gathers at Grams's house and she makes a big breakfast and all of the cousins exchange gifts and we give Grams her presents as well. She always makes it very special for all of the kiddos. They get to drink OJ out of special champagne glasses rimmed with sugar. As you can imagine, this is a very popular thing! The kids love it!
Bennie Boo was right in the middle of the action- actually trying to pull off the tablecloth in this pic! This boy is all over the place!
Nana with Addy and Ben. Notice Ben sticking his finger in Addyson's drink.... little stinker!
Me with my babies!
Family pic!
The blue sweater vest twins!!
Grams got the girls charm bracelets- this picture was them showing me their bracelets.
Addy and Uncle Dusty
Later that day we went by Grandma and Grandpa's house. I didn't bring in my camera over there so I don't have any pics. It was nice visiting with them! 
Bennie Boo was right in the middle of the action- actually trying to pull off the tablecloth in this pic! This boy is all over the place!
Nana with Addy and Ben. Notice Ben sticking his finger in Addyson's drink.... little stinker!
Me with my babies!
Family pic!
The blue sweater vest twins!! 
Grams got the girls charm bracelets- this picture was them showing me their bracelets. 
Addy and Uncle Dusty
Later that day we went by Grandma and Grandpa's house. I didn't bring in my camera over there so I don't have any pics. It was nice visiting with them!
After all of that, we went over to Nana and Pops house and the kids played for a while. We went to the 4:00 church service. Addyson always likes to dress up in the nativity and here she is as an angel!
We had our big Christmas dinner with Ryan's family that night- beef tenderloin, potatoes, salad, bread. It was all very good! We were all exhausted after such a busy day. We came home and crashed! Thank you SO MUCH to Nana, Grams and Jana for putting together such a great day. It is so much work to put on brunch, snacks, and dinner for 20 people and they did a great job. Everything was much appreciated and we had a great time! Love you!
Here we go!
I am going to attempt to get all of my Christmas pictures up! I know, I know- Christmas was 2 weeks ago. That's just how things go sometimes around here! Actually I have not been on my computer much at all, which has been nice! Back to work tomorrow and I will be really busy for a few months, so thought I better get these up now! Thursday, 12/23 the kids had a Christmas party at Vanessas. She was so sweet to be "open" the whole week of Christmas (minus Friday) and I was able to get so much stuff done! Ryan and I went over for the kids party. They all exchanged books with each other. They also got a new dog a few weeks ago and they named her Emily. She is with me and Ben in the pic below- she is really sweet!
The kiddos at the party- minus Hallie, Gabriel and Ben
The kiddos at the party- minus Hallie, Gabriel and Ben
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