New Years 2010 in Winter Park

Yesterday we drove up to Winter Park to meet our friends Weston and Amy and their new baby Cody. They used to live here and now live back in Texas. It was so much fun hanging out with them again. Both Amy and Weston's families along with some of their friends rented a house up there. I think the house slept 16 so that would have been a good time! We rented a room at a "no-tell motel" in town. Hey man, at least it had a couple of beds. That's all we asked for:-) We took my nephew Austin with us and had a great time with him along. The twins adore him and he is so good to them.

We started off the evening hanging out at their house and then we all made our way to dinner at Heck's Tavern at the Devil's Thumb Ranch. The place was amazing and I'd have to say, the perfect setting for a New Year's Eve dinner. If I counted the people in the pictures, I could tell you just how many people there were but let's just say that it was alot. We stayed until about 11pm and by that time, Hunter was in full meltdown mode. He is SO accustomed to his 8pm bedtime and definitely his own bed. I was surprised at how well Reagan did staying up that late. Everyone else stayed and listened to the band but we had to go back to our fancy motel. I wished Ryan a "Happy Texas New Years" at 11:20 as we dozed off to sleep. I figured that was good enough since at that time, it was officially New Years in Texas!

This is what you get for $160/night in Winter Park on NYE! Wow! What a steal!!

The Johnson's (minus Cody) and The Edwards

Amy with her mom Terri

Chick a bow wow Weston

Sassy lady

Awwww.....

I can't help but laugh at this picture. Oh Reagan... you have done that so many times yourself!

Me and Austin

All the guys ready to go out.

All of us at the restaurant

One of the tables

Our table

He didn't even make it out of the parking lot before he crashed. He didn't even bat an eye while I was getting him ready for bed!

Here were the tubing hills that we didn't get to go down. It looked like a freaking blast though!!

I think the twins need one of these

Oh.. Hunter definitely agrees with that!

Hunter & Austin

The Edwards Fam

Austin & Reagan

The little man was so ready to leave.

When he saw me get the camera out to take a picture of him throwing a fit, he yelled "NO Momma!!" HAHA!!!

Oh.. what a fun day... and some messy hat head.

Let's hit the road jack..

I think this picture was taken about 4 minutes after we got on the road and then didn't wake up until an hour and a half later when we pulled onto our street. Good times!!!

Christmas Day 2009

This year was the first year we could actually do the whole "video the kids coming down the stairs" thing. Of course I can never get video to download right on here so I will have Ryan get some of it on here soon. It was so fun watching them try to figure out why in the world there were so many goodies under the tree. In fact, yesterday when Reagan woke up she said "I want mo presents". Just lovely...

After we opened our gifts, we went over to Mom and Dad's for Christmas dinner. We had all planned on playing games that night but we all left for home around 6:30. We were pooped! Then at around 1:30 that morning I had to take Hunter to Children's and found out he had croup. I know it sounds crazy but I was very relieved to hear it was just croup and not a scary case of H1N1. I know.. I watch (and read) too much news.

Reagan in her fancy new chair

The boy loves him some Elmo!

All dressed up in her Christmas Day dress. It didn't last very long though..
Dad & Mom (Is it me or does Dad look like he's gonna pick a fight with someone?)

Reagan went from her pretty dress right into her warm jammies.

Ronda & Tyler. Tyler was SO stoked to get Tiana from "Princess & the Frog". Ronda said it's a great movie.

Ronda & Trevor

Umm.. I think Trevor was pretty tired.

Evidently Lewis was pretty tired too....

Hunter got a sweet, new toolbelt from Ronda, Gary, Tyler, & Trevor. He wore it around ALL day and even had the saggin' jeans to complete the look.

Ahh.. finally home, bathed and all comfy ready to watch The Grinch.

Yes.. his sissy steals everything from him. He's secure in his manhood though to get comfy in a pink, flowered chair. Notice he's got Elmo though so he's all good.

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!! Sadly, I'm sure next Christmas will be here before we know it. Happy New Year!!!

Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve. Absolutely love it!!! This Christmas Eve was perfect. There was a ton of snow on the ground and a ton of family around. We went to church for the Christmas Eve service. Of course we had to get there an hour early because if I ever have to sit anywhere behind the 2nd row in church, I have a coronary and the Christmas Eve service is always packed. Besides, our pastor, Steve said he always relies on me to be in the 2nd row so he can tell how he's doing with his sermon. Evidently I'm an animated person and have no fear of laughing at something funny even when the rest of the congregation has yet to wake up. Afterwards, we went over to Mom and Dad's for dinner. Mom made "Snow on the Mountain" which was soooo good. Never in a million years did I think I'd like something like that but it was awesome!

When we got home, each of us opened our Christmas Eve present which were new pajamas. Yes, I copied that Christmas tradition off of Modern Family. On a side note, if you haven't watched Modern Family, you have NO idea what you are missing!

Hunter was just not in the mood for pictures at ALL!

Boppy & Reagan
See? Told ya.. he just wasn't in the mood for pics.
Dustin & Hunter

Trevor and Reagan in Grandma & Boppy's bed watching Elmo... or Barney... They were worn out!

Here was all the loot left by Santa!!

Snowball Fight!!!

We definitely had a white Christmas this year but the snow started falling two days beforehand. My twins (I've had to call them that this week since my nephews are also called the twins) had a blast in the snow as they always do. They even got to witness their very first snowball fight.

Ryan absolutely loves when teenagers are around. It actually gives him an excuse to act like one! Hunter's trying to help in the snowball fight but his gloves were giving him some major issues:-(

I think this picture is Reagan laughing at Austin's (I think it's Austin..) pants falling down.