Christmas 2008

I know it has taken me forever to post about christmas. You were probably thinking that we didn't celebrate but celebrate we did! My WHOLE famiy came to our house this year! It was so fun! They arrived on christmas eve to start off the party. We also had our good friends the Liddles over also and had a fabulous feast. Unfortunatly we had an 80 degree christmas and our AC was broken so we all were sweating over our meal but is was still good food and good company so we really couldn't complain. After dinner my dad read the kids the story The Legend of PaPa Noel. It is about how the cajun people guided santa to the swamp by lighting bonfires. So we went to the Bonfires they have every year in Gramercy( about 40 min away).


They set up tons of bonfires on the levee next to the Mississippi river. It was really unique and kind of dangerous. Longs on fire were rolling done the hill and huge sparks were flying everywhere. But since we are so daring, we thought it was fun.
We got home really late from the bonfires and let the kids sleepily open their christmas jammies. Markie cried because he was so worried he had been bad this year and would end up with coal. But it looks like santa was forgiving this year because there were presents under our tree.


It was fun to take my family to do some of the tourist things we haven't done. We spent a day at Oak Alley Plantation. It was so beautiful and really interesting to hear all about the history of the area.

These oak trees are so huge and are 150 years old.
We left the kids behind and went to the French Quarter to see some real new orleans jazz. I could have stayed and listened all night. It was really a cool experience and I had a blast with my brothers.

Before filling our ears with jazz we filled our stomachs with some famous parkway po' boys. Delish! Thanks to my fam for coming to hang in the south with us!