Christmas

I know this is a little late, but we both caught colds right after Christmas and are just now getting over them.

 12-24-2022 Christmas Eve

James took this picture at Dan and Robin's annual Christmas Eve Party and sent it to me as we had decided to stay home Christmas Eve because of the ice.  I tried counting the people there but kept getting mixed up.  I finally printed out a copy and wrote a number on each face and came up with 49 counting James who is not in it.

Here is James with his ugliest Christmas sweater for the contest they have every year.  Mik won but I don't have a picture of it.

I have never added a GIF file before but it appears to work.  Michelle sent it to me Christmas Eve.  Vera and I spent a quiet evening at home, after hearing about several family and friends who fell, I think we made the right decision!

Mik was Santa again this year and he was really tickled by Josie's reaction.  She ran right up and gave him a hug.

 

12-25-2022 Christmas Day

Christmas day the ice was almost all gone, we went down to Mik, Michelle and James for our traditional Christmas dinner and gift exchange.

Bev showed up for a little while and we were all glad to see she was ok after the house where she rented burned Christmas Eve.  She lost a lot of stuff and will not know the full extent until after the insurance adjuster looks at things.  Her car was damaged but is still drivable.

Before she left the girls got together for a group photo.  I normally take two or three pictures each time.  This time one of them turned out to have Mik photobombing them in the background.

Here are Mik and Michelle with the Prime Rib and Turkey they had prepared.  Mik did one end of the prime rib with no salt for me.  It was the tenderest best tasting one I have ever had.  I was happy when they sent a piece home with me.  There was lots of good food and deserts today.  Vera and Jim Karnofski, Debbie and Josh, Josh's mom Natalie and Vera had all brought something and it was all good.

Having Jordon and Jacob there really made it seem like Christmas.  They had both brought presents from home to play with. 

Jordon and Jacob played in the tunnel formed by Michelle and my legs for quite a while.

After we ate it was time to open presents.

Debbie is giving Jacob a hand with this present.

After everything was opened they started checking things out a little closer.

Vera is passing our gifts out to everyone.

More present opening going on.

Natalie is checking out the pictures that Jordon took with his new camera.

Just as the present opening finished Mik's brother Jim and his son Rome showed up.

Then it was family photo time.

I used Michelle's picture of Josh, Debbie, Jordon and Jacob because it turned out better than mine.

This is Michelle's picture also of Josh's mom Natalie and his brother Gabe.

James and I!

Vera and I had a great day with the family and enjoyed lots of good food.  Michelle and James had experimented with the two ingredient fudge and came up with one made with ground up Butterfingers.  It was so good that it is my new favorite.  I am going to make it next time I have a sweet tooth.  I hope you all had as Merry a Christmas as we did.

Here is a picture of our great grandson John Patrik playing with the Marble Run we got him.