Par-tay

New Years Eve 2008- We again are without family so we got together with friends to celebrate the new year. We ended up going to two different parties. We thought for sure that by 8 or 9 pm the kids would be done for. That was not the case, they stayed up till we got home at 12:30a. They did a great job!

1st party @ the Birds

The Warnicks
Here we celebrated the east coast new years.
Josh and Morgan- pop crazy

2nd party- The Anderson's pad. We celebrated the west coast new years.

It's Christmas!

Christmas time 2008- It was still snowy in the land of Wilsonville. And the poor Williamsons were all alone and far from family. Well, actually we had one of the best Christmases ever. Not only did we have snow, which is straight out of one of my childhood dreams, we spent it with friends. We first went to the Bird's house to do the nativity and lunch, then we headed over to the Warnicks for a really fun and nice Christmas eve dinner. We had a lot of fun both places.

We couldn't really leave our house to go very far for 2 wks (except, I some how managed to make it to Target and Costco). So I couldn't believe the amount of snow that had fallen. And the roads were not plowed because they've never needed them here.

The Birds house is the one on the left, we tried 4-5 times to make it up their drive-way but we ended up parking by the mailbox.

We had a great time doing the Nativity we had plenty of people to play the different characters.

The Angels

Joseph and Mary on a Donkey

The very scared shepherds

The very wise narrator

The extremely wise wisewomen

While we were there the Bird-Vontrap family played a bell concert for us.

Zach and Daddy walking back to the car

Christmas morning.

It's not very Oregonian to have a fake tree but for some reason Christmas snuck up on us.

Ben had ordered this Santa bread. It was really yummy but not so sweet looking.

Christmas was really a great memory for the family.