Christmas 1981
There's actually no photos of this Christmas!
Christmas 1991
I got my first camera for Christmas in 1991, and the first photo I took on it was off our balcony
Then I took it to church and took a photo of Chrissie in front of Red Car
Obligatory family photos Christmas morning
On boxing day we had Mum's family over for lunch
My camera
Mum's camera
All the cousins on Mum's side
Me with Lauren, Rebecca and Rachel
Don't know what we did with Dad's side of the family - no photos
Christmas 2001
Christmas Eve we went and visited Grandma at her nursing home
Christmas Day David and I went home for Christmas lunch at Mum and Dad's
This was taken on my first digital camera - the Olympus
Sydney was covered in bushfire smoke and the sky was quite eerie (but my camera didn't really capture it)
Christmas 2011
Stu and I headed up Boxing Day morning for lunch with my family.
We then had a touristy holiday in Sydney with Kore.
Christmas 2021
Woke up quite early, so put a turkey roast into the slow cooker for the morning. Still experimenting with using slow cookers to do the turkey for the club Christmas in July events instead of the bbq. Had a lovely relaxed morning with the sweetie, although probably a bit too relaxed - by mid morning I was feeling under a bit of pressure to get all the veggies on. Ended up only six minutes late getting stuff into the oven - not too bad ;) But we also had to work through quite a long todo list to get the house organised, as we only had a day's notice for plans with Mum and David to be established. Also the huge siamensis in Stu's tank died which was pretty sad.
All the veggies - sweet potato, parsnip, carrot and potato; potato bake; asparagus caesar
The slow cooker turkey (after I'd yanked out a chunk to see if it was done). This was a "festive edition" turkey roast so it had stuffing. I also added about half a litre of stock and a couple of tablespoons of corn flour to keep it moist and make its own gravy. I also turned it down to low for maybe an hour and a half in the middle, and turned the turkey half way. It was fall apart tender and it had lots of mush we could eat as well.
Christmas lunch!
The table decorated for Christmas
All the leftovers!
Mid afternoon we headed over to Annie's for dessert and drinks
Stu thought it would be fun to take Stumpy over as well. He reacted by pooping all over the lounge. Ha.
Daisy
Immy took this "selfie" of me
So that was a lovely afternoon.
On the way home we saw this funny cloud
Then Mum arrived. We had snackages for dinner as we were all quite full, and watched an episode of The World According to Jeff Goldblum on fireworks.
Merry Christmas!!
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