A Very Berry Christmas Bash 2008

The annual Berry Christmas Bash was a blast this year! We celebrated the weekend before Christmas with my dad's side of the family in Jackson, MS at my Aunt Bridget and Uncle Jimbo's house. They just built a BEAUTIFUL house with a pool on a mini lake. Like every year we had our Chinese Christmas exchange after dinner; however we did have a slight intermission for the arrival of my Aunt Cissy who showed up 3 hours late. The pictures in the dark are of the entire family going outside to greet her...ha! She showed up with her green boa and 99 pounds of homemade fudge and the party started again. The best gifts of 2008 were an empty bottle of Kahlua that Aunt Cissy brought, Cable Guy pj bottoms with a matching ski mask my brother bought, and a donkey the rests on his back to hold a bottle of wine that Aunt Beth brought. I think Drew and my framed license plate turned into a clock of the Texas Longhorns was pretty bad itself! The lovely pair of HUGE black panties and the pen with feathers (Drew got it..ugh) were brought back! My cousin Matt and his wife Ginny brought their six week old baby Grant so everyone was so excited to see him. I actually got a sneak peek with him 3 weeks ago when I was in Houston for a weekend to visit my g-parents. We love our crazy family and are so blessed to have spent some Christmas fun with 38 of them! Not everyone could make it but most did. We missed my grandmother like crazy and the party wasn't the same without her. I can still remember her at past parties sipping on her wine and telling all of us to behave. You see us Berry's like a party... Enjoy!