Christmas 2008

The Jenkins Family

Madison and Caleb with Great-Grandma Ireton

My Sweet, Silly, Amazing Hallie
Ruth and Bob Ireton with 7 great grandkids

Beth with her youngest cousin Alice

All 8 cousins, well sort-of..

Christmas Eve

Christmas Morning

Ginger Bread Houses

What better way to get ready for Christmas

than to make Ginger Bread Houses!

Ireton Family Thanksgiving

Bob, Lori, Nate, and David relaxing after a yummy meal.















My sweet Uncle Richard and Aunt Lu

Cissa and her red heads

Uncle Bob, Aunt Glenda, Aunt Donna

The Beautiful Family

Save the Boobies!

60 miles in 3 days, an Experience of a Lifetime!
Cissa, Mindi, Amy, and myself on the walk.

Our tent...

A very welcome sight on a long walk...

Everyone deserves a Lifetime of Joy!

The City that NEVER sleeps!

We are home from the Big Apple. This was our second mission trip to NYC. It was a short trip but it was packed full of experiences. We spent Thursday walking around the city. On Friday we went to the Hope Center for training. We went out with the Relief Bus on Friday night and Saturday morning. I loved being able to serve the people of NJ and NY again. We continue to pray that God will show us how to start a similar ministry in OKC. Here are a few pics of our trip. We have a lot more video than pics this time.

New York City Relief

Last September Ken and I went with 4-H.I.M. to NY and served with New York City Relief. It was a huge blessing to get to love and serve the people of NY and NJ. This week Ken and I are going back to NY on an exploratory trip. We are believing God has a plan to start a similar ministry in OKC. This is a God sized vision. I look forward to seeing it materialize.

Amy and Willy at the soup bus.
Ken and Jeff at the Hope Center.
Here is part of our group in front of one of the Relief Bus.
The Harlem soup bus group

Nature Class

My kids are so blessed to have Aunt Amy teaching them nature and art. They are learning so many things from their aunts. Here is a picture of a Monarch crystallise. Very beautiful.


The kids found this so interesting.

Beth takes art very seriously.
Hallie and Madison painting butterflies.
Learning about photosynthesis.
Hallie's bag of leaves

Beth
Draden
Madison

Painting Nature

Yummmmmm!

We made some more yummy food for our families in cooking class. Madison, Beth, Hallie, and Draden enjoyed learning about the different food groups and the food pyramid. Here they are showing off their chicken pot pies.

We also made monster M&M cookies!

Hiding Spot

This was just too funny to pass up. The kids played hide and seek while the Mystery Cake cooked. Hallie loves this game. She is always trying to come up with new places to hide. Here is her newest spot, but don't tell her I told you. I may be in trouble for giving away one of her secret locations. Shhhhhhhhh...

Cooking Class

Madison and Draden spent the day at our house. What a full day it was too! The kids had a picnic lunch in the living room. The weather didn't cooperate for an outside picnic. I heard so much laughing that I don't think they noticed.

Here the kids are getting ready to make dinner for their families. Lasagna Yummmm!

We also made Mystery Cake for dessert. Draden and Madison each took theirs home, but we all sampled Beth and Hallie's cake. Much to our surprise we all liked it. When you see the kids ask them what the "Mystery" ingredient is. We are going to do cooking class at the Jenkins' abode every other week. Now to figure out how to top Mystery Cake...