December 16, 2009

Best Time Of The Year!

Merry Christmas to all!

We’d like to share with you A Holiday Greeting!

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October 4, 2009

Catch Up…

It’s literally been more than 3 years since we’ve updated this site. D’oh! A lot has happened in that time.

Kim has started her masters degree at St Joseph’s. We’ve both started Deaning at Pilgrim Lodge. We’ve taken on the Youth Group at the First Congregational Church of Wilton, Maine. Phil has also joined the Christian Education Committee and the Church Council, as well as becoming an advisor to the Maine Conference UCC State Youth Council Executive Committee, and joining the Outdoor Ministries Committee as well where one of the first things he did was work to put together the new promotional video for Pilgrim Lodge (link is on their home page).

Most recently, however, we’ve launched a new website: WiltonLights.com! Anyone who has spoken to us lately knows that we’ve been more than a little excited about the upcoming Christmas Season, and our plans to create an animated light display synchronized with music which folks can listen to with their car radio. If you’re looking for news on that, then check out the new site!

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July 23, 2006

Back From Camp

We’re back! We’re not sure what prompted us to think that 2 weeks of counseling at Pilgrim Lodge back-to-back was a good idea, but we survived and it really wasn’t quite as tiresome as we had expected. We had a great 2 weeks with a lot of great kids and old counselor friends as well. Now that we have returned and recuperated, feel free to barrage us with the usual phone calls. We can actually answer them now……

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December 7, 2005

New Arrival

Amanda and Arin just became parents again. Benjamin Philip Hilton was born tonight, December 7th, 2005 at 9:45 PM. He was very early, weighs 4 lbs 1oz, and was 16 1/2″ long. Congrats to them!

EDIT: Pictures Added: Ben’s Gallery (More To Come)

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October 22, 2005

It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

We’ve got our new Halloween decorations up for this year – a 4×8 yard ornament of Linus and Sally waiting for The Great Pumpkin. Frank is still sitting in the shed… Oh well. We’re sure he’ll get used someplace eventually. Pics have been posted, including the original drawings used to make the cut out so you can make your own.

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October 19, 2005

A Fresh Start

After a long period of abandonment, I have finally found some time to work on our own site, rather than sites for my clients. Imagine that… We’ve moved to a new CMS backend, but it’s still an off the shelf solution. I just don’t have the time to write us something custom at the moment. More to come…

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August 14, 2005

Summer Roller Coaster Trip Photos

We’ve finally posted some pics from our Roller Coasters excursion this past summer. We brought the camper and rode 27 roller coasters at Dorney Park, Cedar Point, Geauga Lake, & Hershey Park. You can either view them in context via a lengthy trip report at CoasterSims.com, but if you’re just interested in the pics, you can find them in the photo gallery.

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January 1, 2004

Photo Updates

Just a heads up to say that we’ve finally added some pictures to Baby Henry’s photo gallery, the Barn Demolition photo gallery, and we added some of our Wedding Pictures (who cares if it was over a year ago?).

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December 26, 2003

Sad News

My (Phil’s) Mother passed away on December 25th, 2003, at Franklin Memorial Hospital. She will be missed.

Full Obituary:

Linda Records Hilton, 57, of Wilton, died Thursday, Dec. 25, at Franklin Memorial Hospital.

Born in York, June 10, 1946, the daughter of Raymond and Ruby (Edgecomb) Records, she graduated from York High School in 1964, and N.H. Vocational Technical College, with a diploma in nursing.

She practiced nursing at Wentworth Douglass Hospital, Riverside Rest Home in Dover, N.H., the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Gettysburg, Pa., and at Rochester Manor as well as Sunbridge, both in Rochester, N.H.

She was a member of the N.H. Nurses Association and attended the Congregational churches in Eliot and North Berwick. She enjoyed gardening, traveling and all things British.

Survivors include two children, Amanda L. Hilton and Philip J. Hilton; their spouses, April C. [edit: now Arin] and Kimberly R. respectively; and a grandson, Henry E. Hilton, all of Wilton.

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October 24, 2003

There’s A Monster In Our Yard!

We just posted a few pictures of our first (of many to come) yard decorations for Halloween. We don’t believe in the little stake signs you can buy at walmart, or the inflatable characters that need to be plugged in 24/7. Nope. This Frankenstein is 100% homemade. He is 8 feet tall, and constructed from wafer board and paint (plywood was too expensive for decorating with when we went to create him).

Want One? We also included the drawing we used as reference which is based on a coloring book picture. Phil scaled it down to 8″ x 4″ on the computer, added a 1/2″ grid overlay, and printed it out. We then drew a 1/2′ grid on the wafer board, and copied over each square 1 by 1. After that it was just a few minutes with the jig saw, and a lot of paint.

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