Wild and Wonderful Wills: Happy New Year!

I am ashamed at how much time has gone by since I last blogged...but if you have the stamina, I plan to catch all three of you readers up on the Wills' lives...so grab a drink and sit back and enjoy!!

Kate Wills' birthday celebration seems to go on for quite a while...but her two favorite celebrations were at her Godparents' house and her birthday party! It's hard to believe my baby girl is EIGHT YEARS OLD!!

Grandparents' Day at school fell during this celebration time, too!!

Germantown Indoor Swimming Pool was the venue for Miss Kate's party...and a luau was the theme...she did most of the planning herself!

As Thanksgiving approached...Kate's class had a day where parents could come and see all the work they'd been doing...like visiting a Plymouth Settlement...take a look...

Thanksgiving Day is one of my very favorite times of the year...coincidentally...one of my very favorite people ever usually visits then, too! If only California wasn't across the country!

A new tradition...building gingerbread houses on Thanksgiving Day!

Everyone at one table!!

Our annual trip to Rehoboth had a few glitches...

...but we still had an amazing time and got some great pictures on the beach!

We got our Christmas trees at Mayne's Farm this year...everyone helped cut them down!

Basketball is in full swing this winter...I only have pictures of Miss Kate as it is her debut season...but will take more in the upcoming month of the boys. Everyone is on a team they are enjoying...and it's a nice break for Bob and I that each kid is only on ONE team!!

CW decided to grow his hair out...and just as he hit the "I can flip my hair back like Justin Beiber" stage...

...it all came off again!

This is the CW we are accustomed to!

We had the honor of attending Hannah's ballet company's rendition of a Christmas Carol...she was amazing!

Anastasi women baking Christmas cookies...an annual tradition!

The Anastasi Christmas Party

I took a day off school to take Kate to the American Girl cafe with some of her friends...we had a great time and I believe started yet another Christmastime tradition!!

Kate's class joined the rest of the second grade making gingerbread houses..however, Kate's class made German homesteads...they had been studying German culture!

On December 22, we celebrated Megan's Adoption Day with one of our favorite families EVER!! The kids are always hamming it up when they're together!

Kate's Godparents gifted her with a mani/pedi for Christmas!

Christmas Eve...

Christmas morning....

Christmas at Grandma and Chip's house...

we were all gifted with safety vests for Christmas...

...they came in handy as the sun went down and everyone was trying to figure out how to get the football out of the tree...after throwing tons of rocks at the football, Jake came up with a brilliant idea...let's take a big rock, throw it on the pile of rocks to split it into smaller rocks, and then throw more...well, that idea led to...

...THIS.

Jake cut his finger open and had to have it glued back together...nothing like a little ER visit on Christmas Day!

The very next morning, bright and early, we headed to Tennessee!!

We had no idea how blessed with space we were...

...until this happened...

...look familiar?

YUP...transmission problem...again...

however this time, it resulted in needing to leave the van in Roanoke for the week...

we rented a car...and let's just say the space wasn't quite the same...

at the end of the Tennessee pictures, you'll see what I mean!

Doesn't matter how we got there...this is what was waiting for us...Evan Robert Wills, 6 months old. He is such a happy guy...and Robert and Kim are wonderful parents...we had a great time being together!