We LOVE Christmas! Merry Christmas - 2009

Happy Holidays!

Jacy just barely finished her friends presents, they are soooo cute.

She put A LOT of work into thinking of 50 cute, adorable things about each friend & she gave away 12 friend presents! Whew! I am sure Jacy's friends will adore her cute poem & jars of LOVE!

Every year at Christmas we receive such adorable presents from friends! This one is my favorite one! Thanks to all friends for presents, thoughts & acts of kindness!

Jacy's stack of jars & love!
Jacy took the boys ice skating while Steve & I finished up our Christmas shopping!

THANK YOU Jacy!

we had a MASSIVE wind storm a couple of weeks ago

tumbleweeds - EVERYWHERE, especially on our fence line on the front of the property.

We worked two afternoons (after steve went into work at 2 a.m. both days, got home around 2-3 p.m.) & then we all pulled weeds, trimmed trees & then we had a

HUGE
FIRE!

to burn all of the weeds & tree trimmings.

But - three boys, gasoline, & fire do not mix very well. SCARY, actually!

THEY LOVED IT!

Trevor & his buddies having a HUGE snowball battle!

Kelcey had a sleepover & bought these glasses - she later admitted they give her a smashing headache, but they look CUTE!

the boys have been pacing, running around & driving us all crazy!

They are VERY excited for Christmas Eve!

No Room

"No room for Him," the keeper said

That night so long ago,

"My inn is crowed, don't you see,

The rooms no overflow."

"It's just a child," he must have thought,

"A family poor and plain;

My inn is filled with paying guests,

How could I dare explain?"

And thus, he turned aside from One

Who chose a humble birth

To enter into human form

And save all men on earth.

But lo, the shepherds in the hills,

Were called, the Babe to greet;

They followed then the brilliant star

And worshipped at his feet!

"No room for Him," cry men today

As through the world they plod;

"My life is crowed, don't you see?

I have no room for God.

How could I dare explain to all

My friends who question me,

That Jesus came to save my soul,

From sin, to set me free?"

O God, forbid that we become

As keepers of the inn,

And have our lives so crowded

That we have no room for Him

But now may we, Thy children dear,

Unworthy though we are,

Become as shepherds long ago

And follow now His star!

To all of our family & friends - MERRY Christmas!! 2009

Love, the Jones family