Everyone has their own way to PaRtY it Up...and the Wilkerson's are no different. For y
ears our family (my siblings and parents) have had a big family Christmas party (we still do). But last year my kids decided that with everyone growing up and moving away that it would be fun to start having a Christmas party of our own as well. I loved the idea. This year was our 2nd annual Wilkerson Family Christmas Party. Everyone came over to our house for an afternoon of CeLeBrATion. We ate a stuffed potato bar (mainly because everyone loves it and it feeds alot of people), played games and made
ALOT of noise!!! The kids have rotated names for a gift exchange for years, but decided that since not everyone is here on Christmas morning to open gifts, that they would all exchange their gifts at the party. Its neat to see the thoughtfulness that goes into each of their gifts. They aren't the "just because gifts", they really try and think about what their person would like and use. I was with Cameron this year, shopping for Halle. I was giving him all kinds of different ideas of things that he could get for her, and with each one he would say, "is that somethin
g that she would REALLY LIKE?, because I want to get her something that she would REALLY, REALLY LIKE!"....It was so sweet. He finally picked her out a book that she wanted, which came from
the heart because he is always razzing Halle and Kim to put their books down and spend more time talking to him or to do something with him instead of reading. After having to postpone the Christmas party by 1 week because of the weather, Dayna and Jack were able to come out for the family party and spend the afternoon with us. Everyone laughed and ate and played games. We threw marshmallows at each other in the "marshmallow toss game". We also played the present game...the one where you have to roll the dice and get doubles, put on a hat, gloves and then try to open up a finely wrapped gift (wrapped 1 million times and with duct tape as well!) before the next person rol
ls
doubles. The first person to finally get the gift opened, gets it....this caused ALOT of rumble and scuffles around the table. I'm not sure it was to get the gift or just to see who was the fastest gift opener and be claimed CHAMPION....regardless of what it was, it was fun and everyone went away happy....another year almost over and another party done...and many, many fun memories to last for many Christmas's to come.
ALOT of noise!!! The kids have rotated names for a gift exchange for years, but decided that since not everyone is here on Christmas morning to open gifts, that they would all exchange their gifts at the party. Its neat to see the thoughtfulness that goes into each of their gifts. They aren't the "just because gifts", they really try and think about what their person would like and use. I was with Cameron this year, shopping for Halle. I was giving him all kinds of different ideas of things that he could get for her, and with each one he would say, "is that something that she would REALLY LIKE?, because I want to get her something that she would REALLY, REALLY LIKE!"....It was so sweet. He finally picked her out a book that she wanted, which came from the heart because he is always razzing Halle and Kim to put their books down and spend more time talking to him or to do something with him instead of reading. After having to postpone the Christmas party by 1 week because of the weather, Dayna and Jack were able to come out for the family party and spend the afternoon with us. Everyone laughed and ate and played games. We threw marshmallows at each other in the "marshmallow toss game". We also played the present game...the one where you have to roll the dice and get doubles, put on a hat, gloves and then try to open up a finely wrapped gift (wrapped 1 million times and with duct tape as well!) before the next person rolls doubles. The first person to finally get the gift opened, gets it....this caused ALOT of rumble and scuffles around the table. I'm not sure it was to get the gift or just to see who was the fastest gift opener and be claimed CHAMPION....regardless of what it was, it was fun and everyone went away happy....another year almost over and another party done...and many, many fun memories to last for many Christmas's to come. 
3 comments:
It was soooo much fun!!!!
It looks like you had fun. It's nice to see you were all there. Your little family is getting big.
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