Christmas Eve...

Christmas Eve we have a routine...

We go to our churches Christmas Eve Service..

Sometimes we visit for a while,

Then we go home and put the kids

down for the night...

At midnight we wake

drag them out of bed...

usually with Kendal yelling Ho Ho Ho...

and they stumble all bleary eyed

and confused...into the living room.

where we give them some time to wake up.

Then we watch the Grinch cartoon...

and read the Christmas story from the Bible..

We pray and thank God for the year ahead...

and then we open up our gifts..

By the time we get to bed it is usually after 2am..

We love our Christmas Eve routine..

It is so romantic with all the Christmas lights 

and candles,

and best of all...

We get to sleep in Christmas Day!  

Aunty La and Gracie

daughter Bree

 

 Marky and Esther...

(Pre-accident)

 

 

 

 

 Grandma and Gracie

 

 

Brandy...looking exhausted..

 

 

 

 Bree fighting with the terror..

Who MUST NOT BE RESTRAINED

 

Putting Jeremy to bed won't be hard...

Here's what's left of Marky's car...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finished Cookies...

 I forgot to post the pictures of the finished products...

They look are almost good enough to eat

 but I wouldn't reccomend it..

Jeremy was licking the knife..

and to top it off, had a REALLY runny nose....

mmmmm.....snotcookies...

 

 

Dad made a spongebob cookie...

 

Here is the candle that Jeremy made for me at Grandmas house...

 

...and the chocolates....

Grandma ASSURES me they were clean....

FrankenMarky....

Happy Freakin New Years...

This is how we welcome in the New Years 

here at One of the Jones....

my BIL Mark and his wife Esther were here 

over Christmas, 

and were driving back to Kamloops

The story is a little hazy to me, 

but they hit ice, and a fire truck hit them....

Talk about convenient...

Instant blankets and Jaws of Life..

(which by the way were required to take the roof off their  car

to get them out..)

 

As you can see...

Marky got a pretty bad uh....

thing.....

on his head...

They kept him in for observation...

I guess he also had a concussion

 

His wife has a dislocated shoulder...

and apparently both are pretty sore.

They are both so lucky to be alive.

 

The drugs kick in....

 

The drugs wear off...  :)

 

Fortunately they sent them back to the 
Cranbrook hospital, which is where my SIL lives...
Good...because they have no car..
no money....
Mark lost his glasses 
his shoe
and his shirt.
They are staying with my SIL until they get things under control..

Oh...did I mention...
He and his wife just got married this summer?

(LA shaved Marks head...)

We are really glad everyone is ok...
and we thank God for His care and protection...



and as Marky says..


"I'm alive and kicking...
Ow...that hurt..."

or 


"I've had worse....
It's just a flesh wound...
Have at you..."

More Christmas at Grandma's house...

 

 

 

 

Christmas-Dec. 23

 Granddaughter Cassie

 

 Nice hair Gracie....LOL!

 

Kendal

 

 Grandson Talon

 

 Give me my present..........

 

Jeremy

Gonna get into this thing...

 Daughters Bree and Gracie

 

 

Little princess