{My last post of the year}

OK..the fisheye lens was fun..but I am back to my normal pictures!!  The fisheye kinda makes you feel sick when looking at them!!  So this will be my last post of 2009!  Yay! I have been doing my blog for a year and a half and now I am going to have a company "slurp" it all into ONE, BIG BOOK!!  It will be fun for the kids to look through the book and see all the things they did.  It will also be fun to see how much my photography has grown!!  I have been going back and forth on whether or not I will continue my blog.  On one hand I love to update it and have the info there for a new book next year, but on the other hand..IT IS ALOT OF WORK!!  I may just continue it and just not post almost everyday!  I don't know....I don't kow if there is anyone even out there reading it! 

Anyways..I wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  I hope 2010 brings everyone Health, Happiness and Love!!!

Oh and a very special Happy Birthday to my dad.  He would of been 61 today!!  He loved his birthday because there was always a huge celebration!!  We love and miss him very much!! XOXOX

signing off for 2009.....

{Some of Annabella and Emma at Uvillage!}

{One last Christmas post..I forgot to show you all my cards!}

{Christmas Day!}

We must have all been good in the Wilkinson household this year...because Santa brought us all kinds of GREAT stuff!!!

Emma, Lauren, Hillary, Tyler and Ian all got an iPod Touch!

Bart got this Panini Maker and the XBox 360 Elite..the Xbox is really for everyone and to make up for the fact that we bought all those Apple Products, so we better have a new Microsoft product!! LOL

I got a pair of Lululemon Yoga Pants..yes, I am actually going to start working out..I joined the gym last night.  Renee and I went Kickboxing!  I also got the Nikon D700!!!!  This makes me VERY happy!

and the girls also got the hard to find ZHU ZHU pets...


Everyone got lots of other fun stuff too.  Ryan and Jill got a new Department 56 house to start building a village.  Annabella got lots of new clothes and pre-school toys.  The girls and Hillary and Tyler got new clothes, games and gadgets.  The girls got some new Mario Wii games that they can play with 4 players. They got FIVE robes from Grandma Cyndy becasue she got all confused and sent a bunch of them..LOL.
Bart's parents also are treating us to a Cirque De Soleil show in the spring!! :) A very fun christmas.  We had a great time and enjoyed spending it with the whole family!!

Here is the scene after Santa left!!





Lauren and Annabella waking up in the morning.  Lauren was reading her letter from Santa and begging to go wake up Emma. :)



Opening the presents once Hillary and tyler got there!



Playing with the Zhu Zhu's!

{Christmas Eve}

This has been a very busy Christmas Week.  So now we are on Christmas Eve.  For most of the day we hung around the house and then after dinner, we headed over to our neighbor's house for a holiday open house.  We always have a great time at Jen and Trey's, but we headed home early so the girls and Annabella could open a few gifts.  When I was growing up, our family opened all of our presents on Christmas Eve and then the Santa presents and stockings on Christmas morning.  Bart's family opened all of their presents and santa goodies on Christmas day.  So this year we told the kids they could open a few gifts tonight and then the rest in the morning.  They didn't really care how we did it...just as long as they got to open something tonight!!

Annabella watching Lauren...she was getting a lesson on how to open presents...to any of my photography frineds reading...please forgive all these pics..I know they are not technically right, color wise!!

Annabella getting her Little People bus!

Emma loves her Paperoni's..thanks Grandma!!

Lauren sporting her new vest!

Bart..just finishing the daunting task of putting together Lauren's doll house.  About 20 minutes earlier, there were about 100 pieces all over the floor!!

{Christmas 2009}

Some shots from the 23rd. None ot the shots are SPECTACULAR..but I did rent a fisheye just to mix it up a little!! :)  At the beginning of the night we walked over to Kona Kitchen for dinner. They have the best food ever!! The girls were both little "butt heads" and got themselves in a bit of trouble so Bart told them they were not allowed to go over to the Swanson's next.  Earlier they had called and said to stop by and have a drink or two while they waited for Ryan's mom, Rebecca and her husband Dick to get there.  Once they showed up, all the kids, minus mine who were at home, LOL..along with Peter and Holly (kids at heart) counted all the presents!!  They grouped them in piles of five..ya know to make it easier! Ahh..to be young again!!

{The stockings were all hung with care....}

{Two more days until Christmas!}

Are you ready?? I think I am! :) Actually, I have no other choice than to be ready. My family all got into town last night and we have a full house and when I say we have a full house, I mean a HECTIC house too, very hectic! To top it off..I am sick...aaaack, not a good time to become ill! But nonetheless, I am excited for the holidays to begin!!

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{Visiting Santa's Reindeer..and a Camel!?!?}

Look at Santa's Reeindeer. Oh and that huge camel!! I think more people were looking a the camel than the reindeer. But not us..that thing was slobbering all over everyone..EWWWWWWWW. Seriously, kids were standing under his head that was hanging over the fence looking up at him and HUGE, strands of slobber would fall down on them. Emma and Lauren stayed clear of that. There was no way they were going to even get near that thing!! We got lots of fun pics too. Lauren brought her camera and decided she would practice. LOL! She looked like a professional product photographer out there, moving items around and setting things up for her shots. I had to kindly remind her that things were glass and mom would have to buy them if she accidently broke anything. You can even she her chimping her shots. That means looking at the screen after your shot for any of my non photog readers out there!!! Can you believe Christmas is almost here? Funny how the month of December always flies by so fast!!