Holleboom Family Blog: Christmas Eve with the Burge Family

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve with the Burge Family

As is tradition, we celebrated Christmas Eve with Sara's Mom's family in Fenton. Carson came down with a cold virus on Tuesday, but by the time we got to the party on Wednesday night, his fever was gone and he was starting to act more like himself. He enjoyed the party much more than we thought he would, for which we are thankful. He was a little shy at first, waking up from a nap in the car, and just wanting to cuddle with his Mama, but he perked up quickly and was soon walking around and visiting with everyone.

We all had fun at the party. It was great to see everyone and we were able to take lots of great pictures. The jokes and laughter are never lacking with Sara's family, and we always leave with sore abdominal muscles from laughing so much. Carson got lots of nice gifts - lots of fun toys to play with, a chair his size for the living room (which we just left at home since it was quite large to lug around), and some new clothes, too. We'll have lots of fun in the coming days, weeks, and months playing with all the new toys... and yes I say we because Kevin and I will have almost as much fun as Carson has playing with the new stuff. :)

Be sure to check out all of our pictures from the Burge family party in our family photo albums at the link in the sidebar to the right. Also, for those that have been to my Aunt Sharon's house before - notice in the pictures that she's had a complete home makeover on the first floor. She's recently had every single room re-done and re-furnished by Ethan Allen. Doesn't it look awesome!?!

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