We went to my Mom's house on Christmas Eve to spend time with her and Tori (PJ was in Minnesota with Dad). We made a big turkey dinner and all sat down to eat (I was right, as good as it was, Dillon's birthday dinner was better). Tori got a VERY generous Secret Santa gift so she went and bought my mom the new Planet of the Apes movie which she had been dying to see. We all really liked it.
Wilson tradition says you can open one present on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning, but we had mom and Tori open our gifts that night. We got Tori the most random assortment of things: a half eaten PB&J sandwich, matches, tin pan, gas line water remover, and cockroach repellant. She was not happy until I explained it was for a chemistry experiment (then she freaked out).
My sister is a total pyro, so I knew shes love this.
I just hope she doesn't kill anyone with it...
I just hope she doesn't kill anyone with it...
Christmas Day we went to church and opened gifts. Then we played ESPN Monopoly (I have been banned since Christmas 2 years ago, so I was on my best and least manipulative behavior). By the time we finished our first game Kyle called us on Skype! We also got to Skype with the Holm's in St. Cloud and marveled at how bug the Crookston's kids are already!!!
The day after Christmas we all packed in the car and drove up to Twin Falls Idaho to visit Aunt Paula and her family. Joey, Crystal, Chelsie, Audrey and their families were all there too. These are my double cousins, aka our moms are sisters and our dads are brothers so we share all 4 grandparents. Now you should know that this family is has a nasty sickness... they are die hard Packer fans.
Aunt Paula said we could come visit with one condition: no purple allowed. So naturally we all work Vikings jerseys. Tori wore #4 Favre, Mom wore #42 Sharper, I wore #28 AP, and Dillon wore #54 customized Holm. As we walked up the driveway we could hear people screaming lock the door!
Aunt Paula changed into green and reluctantly
agreed to take a picture with us.
agreed to take a picture with us.
If there's one thing you should never do it's leave yourself logged on to facebook when Tori is around. Aunt Paula got a kindle for Christmas and made this mistake. Tori did all the typing and I may or may not have told her what to write, but we changed Paula's status. We were on our way to the falls so we hoped she wouldn't notice right away, but it was barely 2 minutes before she was screaming, "AMY! Give me back my kindle!" I of course claimed innocence. We had changed it to, "After years of living a lie I have to confess, I bleed purple! Go Vikes! Packers Stink!"
Aunt Paula was desperate to delete the status before any of
her friends saw it. Her panic made it even funnier!
her friends saw it. Her panic made it even funnier!
We went to the falls, which we not what I was expecting. I guess I was thinking something like Bridal Veil Falls, and we got more of Niagara Falls. Really beautiful and awesome.
After we mostly hung out and played games. Dillon and I got our first taste of Settlers of Catan. We also played the dice game. It's a simple concept: everyone gets a paper and the goal is to write the numbers 1 to 100, but there's only 1 pen and you can only write when you roll doubles. It sounds dumb. In fact it took some convincing to get people to play. Within 2 minutes Brian was screaming "Why is this so fun!?".
Wilsons tend to be a tad competitive... it was really fun.
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