Merry Christmas To All!

For our Christmas Eve Eve we got together with the Beck family and had a wonderful dinner and played the traditional Beck Bingo. We all had a great time.
One of the bingo prizes this year was a puppy. Sue won it and took him all the way back to Kaysville with her.
On Christmas Eve we decorated sugar cookies for Santa. And after that we delivered Christmas to a family. The family was not home so we laid everything out and it gave us all such a good feeling.
We came back home and had a delicious meal. Chad read the Christmas story and we acted out our parts. We used costumes from our ward Christmas Party so we were all decked out. We had a wonderful time with our family. Merry Christmas To All1

Gratitude

Things I am most grateful for are my beautiful grandchildren.

I was also grateful to have my family home for Thanksgiving. We had a great time together eating and afterwards we went sleigh riding behind Chad's four-wheeler. I only got dumped out three times. Kate and Karson were the best riders.

After thanksgiving our family tradition is to take down thanksgiving and put up Christmas. It usually takes all day Friday. On Saturday Chad and I went up the mountains to get our Christmas tree but the roads were so slick we almost slid off the road. I begged Chad to take me home because I was so scared. So on Monday we went up again, Pomerelle way this time, and we got our tree. We had to walk in knee deep snow for quite aways but we finally found our Christmas tree.

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BSOPPS

Burley Special Olympic Partners....these special peer tutors are the BEST. I have been so blessed to know these kids through Kristi. They give of their time to help others, feel important. BSOPPS held a halloween bowling party for the special olympic kids. They treated them with pizza and prizes. Kristi won the "Scariest Costume" award. When we got home Kristi was worried and wondered if she really looked scary. I told her no but witches are supposed to be scary. Fred Flinstone a.k.a. Alex Greener was her bowling parner.
Two of the cutest girls there happened to be related to Kristi. Melanie and Delta! We are so blessed in our family.

Pumpkin Patch

When we were in Mississippi with Kiley and Eric, we went to Sam's club and on the way out a lady was putting lots of groceries away in her car. Chad helped her with her groceries and then she graciously gave us free tickets to her Ceder Hills Farm. It was a great place to go, filled with farm animals to pet, corn mazes, straw mazes, train rides, pony rides, and of course a huge pumpkin patch. We had a great day. It was Aila's first outing.
If you are ever in Mississippi I recommend this place!

Two New Additions

Lucy Jean Jones was born August 25th. She weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces and was 19 inches long. The proud parents are Jared and Abby and big sister Grace.
Aila Pierce was born September 27th. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 21 inches long. The proud parents are Eric and Kiley and big sister Kinsley.

Jones Family Camp

This year the Jones Family went camping at the Oakley Stake Camp. It was a great place to go especially because of the new showers and bathrooms. I remember going there and we had to dig our own latrines..... and use skunk grass.... We had a fun time playing Family Feud ( of course the Chad Jones family won due to the fact that Kristi came up with the winning answer!)

We also played Celestial Companions during the course of our stay there. Chad and I were in the winning round and we got beat by Ashley and Craig by a mere point. Our prize was flannel pajamas with a turtle neck. Our last night we had a testimony meeting it was a spiritual night for all of those there. We sure did miss Dee's family this year but we sang all of their songs that they have made up in past years. (Three camping days still lie ahead, I hope they're fast a miss my bed)

What happens when you associate with friends for a long time?

You start dressing alike. This was our Stake Relief Society evening "Embraced in the Arms of His Love". It was a wonderful evening. For the meal.....before the meal... the tables were all adorned with lavender place mats, lavender napkins and lavender sprinkled cupcakes. For the meal we had chicken salad on top of a leaf of lettuce, a cresant roll, fruit salad. After we ate we moved into the chapel where beautiful music was playing, Jolene conducted and they had produced some of the best video presentations I have ever seen. I just wanted to cry...but I knew if I cried Kristi would really cry. We have the best Relief Society sisters ever!
You know you have associated with family for a long time when......You get together for Father's day and everyone brings a pasta salad.....I'm serious, everyone. A week later when your brother -in-law is home from Brasil with his family and you get together again only this time everyone brings carmel popcorn.....Did you know there is alot of different flavors of carmel corn? Next time we get together we are going to assign a dish.