Christmas with the Dwinell's!

We had a GREAT Christmas this year with the Dwinell's!   It is always a fun time with all the cousins and this year was no exception!  Addyson and Ben love their cousins so much!!!

And Ben LOVES his Uncle Dusty!

The boys love Ben!  And Ben LOVES them!!! 

Ben trying on Addy's new headbands......:) 

Nana and her babies!

Easy Bake Oven here we come!!

We got Nana and Pops a new door mat!  Love it!

 

Ben's big presents were a new table and chair set and his bubble mower!

P and her new bike!

Addyson and her new bike!  The boys got new bike ramps (as you can see in this pic also) Fun times!

Parker and Ben playing outside!

We had a great time with everyone and made lots of memories!!  

Christmas with MiMi and PaPa

This year we had Christmas with MiMi and PaPa (my parents) on Christmas Eve.  We switch back each year between my parents and Ryan's parents and it works really well!  We got over there mid-day so we could hang out while Ben took his nap.  It's really nice that both of our parents have the full set-up at their houses with pack-n-plays and everything we need so that it's very easy for the kids to do whatever they need to do! 

Here is MiMi and Addyson



MiMi and Ben





Addyson and Hallie both got new cute chairs for thier rooms.  Addyson loves hers!




Sweet Hallie!




Ben got a cool tool bench with built in saw.  He loves it!  He loves to tinker with things like this....just like his daddy!




It's always a mad-dash to open presents.  These two aren't competitive or anything.....;)  Ha!  They are just like sisters!





Ready to do some yard work!




With his new blower of course! 





Ryan scored some really nice new Ostrich boots! 

 I got lots of "stay at home mom" clothes gear!  Ha!  What is this you might ask??  Not elastic waist mom jeans or anything....don't worry peeps!  Just comfy "non-work" clothes that I can throw on to do stuff around the house, go run errands, etc.  Warm up suits and the like.  I've been thouroughly enjoying them!  I also got some black sparkely Toms, gift cards and more that I honestly can't recall at the moment.  I know I liked it all though!!  We cooked a yummy Prime Rib dinner, twice baked potatoes, green beans and all that yummy stuff.  My mom is a great cook and so that's always nice to go home to a nice home-cooked dinner like we had growing up. 

Christmas Eve Brunch at Grams!

Grams had her annual Christmas Eve brunch at her house again this year and we had a great time!  We are SO lucky and blessed to have the kid's great-grandmother who takes such an active part of all of our lives.  How many people can say that?  She is wonderful and we love her so much! 



The kids all get their special decorated table with sugar rimmed OJ in champagne glasses.  They feel so special! 




Mmmmm this stuff is good! 



We love Grams!



Grams and all of her great-grands!  (Minus Caleb who wasn't in the picture mood!)




Addyson, of course, found an i-phone to play with.  My how things have changed!



Nana and her sweet Bennie!

Love this one! 

Christmas 2011

Better late than never on this post, right?!?  We had a WONDERFUL Christmas this year with so many gatherings with family and friends.  Truly a lot to be thankful for!  A few weeks before Christmas (on Ryan's birthday to be exact!) we got the news that Ryan got a promotion with his company and we would be moving to Kansas City, Kansas.  WOW!  Huge transition for us, but exciting at the same time.  All of that deserves another post of its own, but I mentioned that here because it really made all of our events with family and friends that much more special this year, knowing that next year will be a little different.  Having said that though, next year will be good kind of different because when we do come in town it will be 24 hours a day of Ryan, Lisa, Addyson and Ben so get ready for that!!!  :)  

Addyson wanted to have big carrots for all the reindeer, so that is what we did!  And one little cookie for Santa!

Addyson with all her loot!

Ben with his new tractor.  Ryan was probably more excited about this than anyone!  Ben loves Daddy's "big" John Deere and so we had to get him one of his own.  He loves it!! 

A Christmas favorite- the Happy Napper!!  She watches way too much TV! 

Ryan surprised me with my "stay-at-home-mom" purse!  Loved it!!!  Hands free while I'm out with the kids!

During the present opening, Ben wandered off to sissy's room and found a random marker!  Poor baby was not happy when I took it away from him! 

Ben just HAD to try out his new tractor! 

Addyson't big present this year was a Kindle Fire which she loves!  (And so do mommy and daddy- those things are cool!)

More posts to come of Christmas with the Dwinell's and Foushee's!