Hello 2012! I'm excited about this coming year :)
Christmas week was fun and eventful. My mom and dad came for a week and we had a wonderful time with them :)
We took the FrontRunner train down to Salt Lake City. We ate dinner at the Blue Lemon ~ great food :) We also walked around Temple Square and looked at the lights. Amazing. I think every twig on every tree was covered in lights!
We went to the 11pm Christmas Eve service at our church and opened stockings.
Christmas day was relaxing. We got up and opened presents. Then we had our traditional Christmas breakfast ~ sausage gravy and biscuits. Both made from scratch. Yum!
The girls both had to work after breakfast. We had a simple Christmas dinner of ham, baked sweet potatoes, raspberry applesauce jello, olives, pickles and homemade rolls, steamed broccoli and corn. Delicious!
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| DJ and I saw this at TJMaxx and had to buy it for Ben. It's a traditional Italian cake. We had these at Christmastime when we lived in Sicily. Ben especially loved them. |
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| These next pictures are Ben snowboarding last Monday. He was so happy to be on the slopes again! |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our church, Alpine Church, did Missions Week again this year. Not everyone can go on a missions trip so Alpine Church decided to give people the opportunity to "go" on a missions trip right here in our hometown. This past Monday we packed boxes for pastors in Mexico. There are 298 indigenous groups in Mexico. They each have their own language ~ some of them also know Spanish.......some not. The pastors in these areas have next to nothing to work with as they reach out to their own indigenous group. The boxes we packed have a variety of items in them such as toiletries, school supplies, food items, etc. The pastors are so grateful to receive these boxes. Tuesday morning found a semi truck from Feed My Starving Children pulling into the church parking lot! Exciting! We did this last year and it is FUN!! FMSC is based in Minnesota and is a non-profit Christian organization. Basically how it works is this: ~ Our church paid for 200,000 meals ~ A truck brings all the supplies needed to set up stations so we can package those meals ~The meals consist of 4 components: 1. Rice, the most widely accepted grain around the world. 2. Extruded soy nuggets, providing maximum protein at lowest cost. 3. Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian flavoring to give growing children the critical nutritional elements they need. 4. Dehydrated vegetables for flavor and nutrition. ~Tables are set up and it runs like an assembly line. Scooping the food into bags, weighing it, sealing it and boxing it up. ~People sign up for 2 hour shifts. You know that you are being a blessing by doing this but believe me...you will leave feeling blessed and grateful to have played a small part in FMSC's outreach! For more information on Feed My Starving Children go here: http://www.fmsc.org |
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| The truck is here! |
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| Time to unload |
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| soy and rice |
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| Tables ready for stations to be set up |
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| This was at the end of our shift but you can see how the stations are set up |
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| 32 bags in a box ~ this is life saving food for so many children. This food is shipped to nearly 70 countries around the world. ~~~~~~~~~~ There's no better way to spend Christmas vacation than reaching out to others sharing the love of Christ! I'm so grateful my husband and kids enjoy doing this as much as I do. It was wonderful that mom and dad were here to help too. They loved it. I hope you are excited about this coming year. Happy New Year! ~JanMarie |
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