Burkemper Life: December activity

December did not bring rest, but more fun times with friends and family. The beginning of the month brought some special visitors. Julie (and Chris), Kris (and Rob), EG (and Tiffany) all came for a long weekend visit. They arrived on Thursday night and departed on Sunday! It was all too short, but oh so much fun. We had a sitter on Friday night, we headed out early to catch happy hour prices...which meant more drinking (and eating). We rallied until about 2am, and I think we could have went longer, but I am sure the sitter wanted to go home. Saturday we just hung out then grilled up some delicious steaks for Chris's bday, played some euchre, and continued to put our drink on. It was so much fun to all be together, it just doesn't happen often enough. Until next year....

The next weekend Scott and I visited New Orleans to see John Prine with Iris DeMent at the House of Blues. It rained all weekend, but it was so nice to be together just the two of us in an amazing city. We ate, drank, walked, shopped, listened to live music, stayed up too late...but, since we were sans Carsten we slept in and took naps! It was glorious!!!
Starting the weekend off right, the Roddiger's (who sat Carsten for us) advised us to start off with two....um, I would have been on my ass! We had one then opted for dinner, then more drinks up and down and off Bourbon. What a night!

The following weekend was filled with last minute shopping, venturing around Austin, and preparing ourselves for the long drive home. We drove through the night on the 21st, Carsten slept the entire way...12 hours and 1 minute door to door. Christmas celebrations started on the 23rd and concluded on the 27th, all of them wonderful and more memories created. Carsten was still a bit more interested in the paper than the actual toy. Next year I am sure will be a different story. It was fantastic to see family while we were home, going to have to catch up with all our friends on the next visit...sorry. With Christmas falling on the weekend it was tough to fit everything in our schedule. We hope the holidays blessed everyone with fond memories of past and kindled new memories made. Here is our Christmas tree and pic of the best present ever!