Christmas Day and Sunday!

Saturday: Christmas!! Roasted a 20 pound turkey, made gravy and took it to Cathy and Werner's.

First, in the morning, Ford, AA and I opened gifts, so many! I may write a separate post of all our presents. We enjoyed Ford's farmer's casserole for breakfast. 

I had a retake of Father's Day photo since AA now has her braces off.

Group photos: Hard to see Jesse and Carl in the 1st one; can't see Werner behind baby Miles in the 2nd!

Leaa showed AA how to play a card game:

Gifts: Wine and chocolate from Carl/Marsha; two Yeti type wine tumblers, chocolate red wine and a hoodie for AA; AA received money and beach towel from Cathy and Werner, we received an engineer t-shirt and a bottle of wine; snowman grapevine, card game from Leaa/Jesse.
Sunday: Ham dinner with Larry (Carolyn and Tyler begged off due to colds). I made a cherry-berry pie, delicious! LB gave us a bottle of wine plus Christmas gifts (see below).

Ham and mashed potatoes, plus the green bean casserole that Bill/Joan sent us. Yum!

Before LB arrived, we popped the champagne and took a selfie in front of the Jaguar football game (they lost).

Larry was so sweet and re-gifted some items he found and some of Charlotte's jewelry and her Step-Great Grandfather's pocket watch! I couldn't say much, tearing up now as I write this. He gave us two old games, we will try to figure out and a baked bean pot. He gave AA a sapphire bracelet that he bought for Charlotte from Kingsley Jewelers, that was Charlotte's birthstone and also AA's (which LB admitted he forgot, didn't put two and two together, both born in September), so it was perfect! Then he gave me her diamond tennis bracelet (also from Kingsley Jewelers) - which he did know my birthday is April, and my birthstone. Two for two match! 

For Ford (he said, no "men's" jewelry to gift), Larry decided to gift Charlotte's (her father's mother, Gumma's 3rd husband's watch) great-grandfather's pocket watch, LB estimated maybe was 80 years old (the watch).

We looked up the watch and found out it is a 1951 Ingraham Tower watch, which is Ford's year of birth. The Sears "dollar" watch had a different face each year, very identifiable as 1951. So Larry hit three of three with these gifts!

A Boston Bean pot used once! Larry said he loved baked beans so Charlotte made them once - and Larry said he thought the B&M baked beans tasted just as good, so she never made them homemade again!

And the official recipe; I will make a pot soon!

A wonderful and sentimental ending to the week!