Ringing in the New Year!!

Or.....is it Christmas again?!!

 Ha ha!

With all of the sickness, we were finally able to have our

Burke Family Christmas party!

We are so big any more, that to hold these parties at one of our homes, is tight!

Morgan Pavement is very kind to let us use the upstairs board room!

It worked perfectly!

Everyone brought food to share and we all had gifts for the names we had drawn.

We ate dinner and got all caught up with each other.

It seems like the older our families get, the less we see of each other.....

with everyone's lives so busy it is harder and harder!

Trav and I had asked everyone to email us 20 pictures or so of each family

from all of the going on's in 2014.

We made a slide show and watched it together.

That was so fun, and awesome to see things that each family did over the year.

Think that might have to be a yearly thing.

We just did that on a whim because there is a large screen tv in the room

and thought it would be fun to entertain everyone with a quick slideshow, 

but it ended up being something really neat.

My own family better watch out......I think it will be something we do as well!

After we watched the show,

we cleaned up and let the kids sit in a circle to open their presents.

These cousins LOVE being together.

It is so fun to have so many all different ages to be with.

We had a great time and were glad to finally get together!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Burke family!