Only One Day Like Today: Happy New Year, 2023!

Always sad to see Christmas come and go so quickly!

We were so happy to make it through all 25 days of the Jesse Tree devotional book. The tree in this picture is our Jesse Tree, where we hang 25 ornments that coincide with each of the 25 devotionals. This is the first year we have gone through the book in about 6 years! It goes all the way back to about 1999, when we first started getting involved in a Jesse Tree project of making the ornaments with several other families.

The little snow globe is a very special new addition this year, from our beloved Smith family.

The litghted snowman is an old keepsake from our dear Marilyn Jerke who is enjoying Jesus in heaven.

And the "Merry Christmas" box holds all of our treasured cards and letters from dear family and friends.

We are so blessed to have our sweet niece, McKenna here for a few days! She came in on Thursday afternoon. This picture was taken that evening at dinnertime!