The Drury Family

Other Christmas Pics

Grandma & John...

Mommy & Ethan...

Holly & Cooper...

Erik, Aunt Debbie & Jessica Johnson

Holly, Cooper (hidden behind t-shirt) and Alex...

Grandma, Grandpa & the boys...

Cooper playing with new truck...

Holly, Cooper & Alex...

Mommy and the boys...

Boys & their new toys...

Toy lost under the couch...

Uncle Mitch & Aunt Debbie...

John (resembling Hugh Hefner)...

Ron & Chong Hull (Mary's parents)

Ethan in Kendal's car...

Geoff & Jaime Graves (cousins)...

Uncle Chuck & Grandma Drury...

Ryan Graves & father in law

Michal & Kendal...

Nanna & Ethan...

The whole cooking crew...

Brad, Mary, Ron & Chong Hull

Bev, Jason, Brad & Lindsey...

Mary and her good friend Kat...

Daddy with his boys (my personal favorite)...

Christmas morning we woke up bright and early, came downstairs and checked that Santa had come and eaten his milk and cookies. Sure enough, we had been here. We did stocking and presents from Santa here at home, had a quick breakfast and packed up to head for Nanna's house (Jason's mom) for Christmas Day. We had a great time visiting with Jason's sister, Lindsey, and his brother Brad and Brad's wife, Mary (my brother and sister in law). It was a fun morning of watching the snow, opening presents, visiting, and spending time as a family. Here are some pictures at Nanna's house:

Nanna and Ethan...

Playing basketball with new hoop...

Playing with the new fireman and policeman puppets from Aunt Lindsey...

Left to right - Ethan, Aunt Mary, John & Nanna...

Ethan and Aunt Mary (robes were a present from Uncle Brad & Aunt Mary)...

Daddy & Ethan...

Later that evening, we went over to Uncle Bob and Aunt Kathy's house for Christmas dinner. It was great to visit with everyone and Uncle Brad and Aunt Mary surprised us with the exciting news that they are pregnant!!!! Everyone is thrilled for them...they will be wonderful parents!

Luckily, Jason had his trusty camera to capture the reaction of the parents to be telling the family and the grandparents to be hearing the news:

Brad & Mary (the parents to be) just before telling everyone...

Mary's lovely parents Ron & Chong viewing the home pregnancy test...

Bev (Nanna) absorbing the news...

This holiday season was full of many blessings. We are thankful for each other, our family, friends and good health. 2009 is sure to be wonderful!

Christmas Eve

The Drury family has been busy, busy, busy over the past 2 weeks. My sister, Holly, her hubby Alex and their son Cooper (our adorable nephew) came home on Friday Dec 19th, just missing the huge airport delays and arriving just a few hours after schedule. We had lots of fun visits with them over the course of the 10 or so days they were here.

The day or two before Christmas, we all spent the day at my parent's house playing in the snow with the kids, sledding, etc. A good time was had by all!

Before we knew it, Christmas was upon us and we spent Christmas Eve at Shelley's parent's house celebrating. All the kids had so much fun, especially when Santa (otherwise known as Grandpa in disguise) made a surprise appearance, handing out candy canes and presents to all three of the boys (John, Ethan and Cooper). John and Ethan loved Santa, but Cooper was a different story...let's just say that Santa was not his favorite thing about Christmas this year. At one point during the evening, John leaned over to my mom and said "Grandma...I like (yike) Santa". My mom got a good giggle over that. Here are some pictures of Santa:

Sitting with Grandma as Santa ho, ho, ho'd his way into the living room (everyone looking a little uneasy):

Ethan was first and immediately went right over to Santa and climbed up on his lab. He studied Santa's face for the first few minutes as if he was thinking "you really look familiar to me", but he didn't figure it out this year that it was Grandpa. When Santa asked Ethan what he wanted for Christmas he said "I want that" and pointed to the candy canes in Santa's hand.

John was next and was a little nervous at first, so I (mommy) had to take him over to Santa and set him on his lap. Once he saw the candy canes he was sold on Santa and happily sat there (also curiously staring at Santa once in a while):