Wilson Christmas 2010!

The Wilson family Christmas gathering is always a blast! With lots of kids, sweets, and...NOISE!!!!
Peter, Matt, and Maggie anxiously awaiting presents!

Sam getting ready to open!

Ohhh, what'd he get???

Jed with his new cap guns!!!

Sarah, Cal, and Jed having fun playing (or trying to play) a game!
Hey, it's kind of hard to get three little kids to cooperate when taking a picture! :)

Bowling...
This year instead of the grand-kids exchanging gifts between each other, we decided to go bowling!!!

Just the girls!

Every year, around Christmas time, Mom and I go to a play and out to lunch. Well, this was Maggie's first time to go as she's now old enough! We went to a Cinderella play and she loved every minute of it!

All dressed up holiday style!

Maggie and I waiting for it to start!

Shepherds

Our Shepherds: Abe, Cal, Jed, and Maggie.

Our little shepherd boys!

Advent Nights!

One of our favorite things to do at Christmas Time are family advent nights. We usually make a craft, light a candle, Dad reads the bible and usually a Christmas story, and then we have a snack and watch a movie!
Watching a Christmas movie!

Dad reading a Christmas story.

A Christmas tradition: Making hugs!

Ike, Maggie, and Abe.

Turkeys!!!

We saw 8 wild turkeys in our yard! We usually see them a couple times a year!

First Snow!!!

Trimmin' the Tree!

One of our annual traditions is going to cut down the "Best Christmas Tree Ever". We found it (although it was a little less "best" than normal)!
Ben and Caleb at the tree farm.

Maggie giving Jed some assistance in hanging his ornament!

Deck the Halls...

...with wreaths and tree-ees!

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!!!!

This year I really wanted Mom and I to surprise Maggie and let her do the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique! The "fairy god-mothers in training" give "princesses" a royal makeover there, and I really wanted Maggie to be able to do it since I had gotten to a couple years ago. Maggie was soooo excited! She had wanted to do it so bad! Well, Mom also surprised me and let me get mine done too! It was so much fun, they truly do make you feel like a princess! Here are some pictures!

Beaches and Cream!

This is our second time to be able to go to Beaches and Cream. The cheapest thing for our family to get is a HUGE sundae called the kitchen sink. They actually bring it in a sink, and it comes with cake and brownies in it and TONS of toppings...AND A WHOLE CAN OF WHIPPED CREAM on top! This year we did end up getting another small sundae so everyone could have a little more though!

Magic Kingdom!!!!

Ben took this awesome picture of the Wishes Spectacular fireworks Show!

Cal on the boat to the Magic Kingdom

Cal and Maggie with Pinocchio!

Riding the carousel!

Mary Poppins and Maggie, "Practically Perfect in every way"!

All of our family with our 3D glasses before Mickey's Philhar-Magic!

Maggie and I

Donald Duck and Maggie
(Maggie was the brave one who went up to all the characters!)

Princess Aurora and Princess Maggie! She got to meet Cinderella and Belle too!

Abe with Mickey's Mail box!

On the train

Mom and Maggie

Abe racing a go cart/race car!

Joshua and Stephen!

We got see Joshua and Stephen at college while we were in Florida! It was lots of fun!
Here we are at dinner with Joshua and Stephen!

Alligators!

While we were heading down to Ft. Lauderdale Florida for an auction benefit, we drove on a highway lined with rivers filled with alligators! Abe counted around 156 or something!!!!! And they weren't dinky little things either, these were like 8-10 foot alligators! Then we stopped off a nature thing to see them up close but still in the wild! Here are some pictures: