So with all the Wilson grandchildren getting together at my house I decided it would be a good opportunity for a group photo. I bought myself a little remote for my camera so we could take a group photo and it was so fun (best $4 I spent in a while)! We got some good (and funny) photos too.
This is the best one I think:
But here are the rest too.
They make me laugh! Now to get all the Pittmans together sometime.
I’m surprised that I like them so much and that I haven’t found more things wrong with them to nit pick about. I keep looking at them and going oh this is my favorite, no this is, etc. I love all of them!
Glad they are done though! Now I can move on to wrapping presents!
Finished pinning on the things for our homemade stockings. Now to sew them all down!
Also made three different kinds of oreo balls, regular, golden, and mint!
Almost forgot, I also made divinity this morning before the kids woke up, no picture though.
He came up with it on his own; it actually took us a minute to figure it out!
We went to regular Universal Studios and were a little underwhelmed. It was sooo slooow we wondered how they were able to keep it open (luckily they own Islands of Adventure with Harry Potter World). We did purposefully go at a slow time of year, note to others the week before Thanksgiving is awesome for theme park visiting!
A few highlights included…
Dora and Diego, recent netflix favorites of Paul.
A longtime favorite, George. I just barely got a picture of them together as we had separated to do different things with the kids. I think Luke would have been happier if I hadn’t gotten this picture, but Paul likes it and thats all that matters!
A picture in from of the Universal earth. Who left their stroller there? Us, oops!
Favorites here were the Simpsons Ride, Men In Black Ride, and ET.
Harry Potter World here we came!
Hogwarts train.
Singing toads.
We loved everything about Harry Potter World. The three broomsticks was AMAZING, the food was just seriously awesome! Good butter beer (we like frozen), good fish & chips, good ribs, good chicken, interesting meat pastries and shepherd’s pie (the seasoning was a little weird to us muggles). The castle was AMAZING! The wand shop show was fun, the Harry Potter and the forbidden journey ride was excellent, and the little shows in the street were cute too.
I should mention we did other things while we were at Islands of Adventure this day, the Spiderman ride was a favorite, Seuss Landing was enjoyed by all the kids, and Luke did a few roller coasters all by his lonesome.
We called our vacation to Orlando a couple weeks ago a “super vacation” cause we got to go to so many theme parks. Certainly not typical, but we got some good discounts on lodging (afvclub.com for military folks), free Sea World passes (again military), slightly discounted Universal Orlando tickets, and buy 1 get 1 free Legoland tickets. Whew!
Sea World was pretty fun though and we are glad we went. I didn’t take many photos for some reason, maybe cause we were mostly watching shows? Anyhow, one of the highlights was the Polar Express ride/experience which wasn’t even supposed to start until the 25th or something. Anyhow, the big kids and Luke got to ride, but guess what Paul did?
Oh, well, he did at least get to look at the train earlier that day.
Not quite a month late yet!
Before any candy, group shot! We had a couple friends join us this year (Bumblebee’s mom was off trying to have a baby and the rocket, Joseph is our good friend from down the street and church)!
And we’re off!
And, we’re back home!
