Christmas 2010!

I'm tellin' you, we had a very blessed Christmas! It was so much fun this year! Not stressful. Not busy. Just fun! I loved every minute of it! (I always do. I just love Christmas and I am sad to see that it's over.)

My side of the family's Christmas is always on Christmas Eve. This makes things so much easier because we don't have 2 places to be on Christmas. We had a great time at my parent's house on Christmas Eve. We ate, ate and ate some more and then later that night, we opened gifts.

My little family at my parent's house on Christmas Eve.

This is Steven and Trinity opening her gift.

This is my dad with his Kindle that he got. It was a huge surprise!

We slept until about 8:00am on Christmas morning. We woke up, ate some chocolate :), and then Steven read to us the Christmas story out of Luke 2. After that we had prayer and then we started opening gifts! Trinity absolutely loved opening her presents this year. It was so much fun to watch her. She was determined! She would open up a gift and then go for another one. She didn't care what was in the packages, she just wanted to open them!

This was our front yard on Christmas! I am so glad we got a white Christmas!

This was Dottie, Steven, and Trinity waiting on me to stop taking pictures so that Steven could read the Christmas story.

(Please excuse my messy, messy hair!)

Ain't she sweet! It took us forever to open presents because Trinity is just getting the hang of it. She was very particular about where the wrapping paper went after she ripped it off the package. It either had to go into Steven's hands or in the trash. Even small little pieces. She doesn't like to make a mess I guess!



We went to Steven's parent's house around 5:00pm Christmas night. They always have a wonderful meal! There was just too much food to choose from! They absolutely spoiled Trinity this year (and always). Her aunt Andrea got her so much stuff! Including a pair of Twinkle Toe shoes from Sketcher's! I love 'em!

This was one of many toys that her Granny and Grandaddy got her! She loved this baby!

I love this time with family. I can honestly say that I have never had a bad Christmas. I am so thankful for God's blessings on us this year. I told Steven the other night that I feel like our little family of 3 is the most blessed family on earth! It seems like God is always pouring down blessings on us! And then we were blessed with an awesome New Year's revival at church. I know I mentioned it in the last post, but I can't even describe the help I received from that revival! Praise God for His sweet mercy and grace on our family!

I'm Here!

Well, I promise that I have not fallen off the face of the earth! I'm sure that you all (all 3 of you!) were worried about me! Ha! It's been pretty busy around the Jones' house lately. And to beat it all, Steven has decided that TODAY we need to start spring cleaning. So, I am starting with our bed room and I'm going to work my way through the house.

Last night we took down our Christmas tree and that always results in a mess. And now I have to figure out what to do with all those toys Trinity got for Christmas!

We did have Christmas and yes, I did take pictures but I haven't looked at them yet. I know there are hundreds so its going to take me awhile to go through them. We even had to stop opening gifts so that Steven could empty my memory card because it was filled up! So I will post about Christmas soon!

We just came out of a weekend revival and I'm telling you, it was awesome! I got some much needed help and I know that the rest of our church did.

Well, this is a random post, I know. So I guess we'll just get more random here! Anyways, I have made 2 New Year's resolutions. The first is the one that everyone makes. I want to lose some weight. Blah, blah, blah! The second one is, well, let me just say that I have this horrible habit of biting my nails. Eww! I have done it since I can remember and I am ready to quit! So my second resolution is to stop biting my nails. If anyone has any tips on this, please let me know!

So I guess that's all that is on my mind now. I have bored you all long enough!

Pre-Christmas Fun!

We've been having tons of fun here at the Jones house! This has been the least busy Christmas I have had since I've been married and I've loved it!

I wanted Trinity to make something to give to some of our friends and family. There isn't much she can do yet but I decided she could finger paint! I cut out cupcake letters with my Cricut machine and she painted the top part of them. She loved getting messy!


Yes. She has paint on (and in) her mouth! By the way, if you ever do a finger painting project with your child, make sure you have water! Steven had the water turned off because he was fixing one of our sinks while Trinity was finger painting so we had to wash up with baby wipes. Not a good idea!

These are the ornaments after they were finished. They didn't turn out as "Christmasy" as I had hoped but they are still cute!

Sunday, the kids got to open gifts at church. Here they are all lined up!

This is Trinity with her gift.


On the third Sunday of every month, after Sunday school our church goes to the local nursing home. We usually sing and then our pastor preaches. This Sunday was a special Christmas service. So we sung Christmas songs. But Trinity, Kari and Malachi got to dress up and walk around the halls and meet the residents. They loved seeing the little kids dressed up as Mary, Joseph, and a little angel!

Isn't she the cutest angel ever?!

This is Mary, Joseph, and the little angel.

Aren't they so cute!

Here is our tree stuffed with Christmas gifts! We will be ALL day long opening gifts! Which is fine by me! Thank you God for blessing our family.

Trinity Is 14 Months Old!

Trinity is now 14 months old! I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. She has changed so much in the past couple of months. It seems like she changes every few minutes! Here are some things about her at 14 months...

She has 3 teeth coming through which makes her having a total of 11 teeth! Wow!

She loves to eat chicken. It is her favorite food. (Besides sweets!)

She knows where her nose and belly is.

She can tell you what sounds a dog, cat, fish, and tiger make.

She says "ite" (bite) all day long!

She still sleeps through the night.

She has a little attitude!

She can shake her head no.

She says "Oh, Pee!" Which means oh, pretty!

She loves to blow kisses.

She is in size 12-18 month clothes.

She is in size 3 diapers.


This is Trinity at 14 months.


This is Trinity at 2 months.

I have a story to share about Trinity.

Trinity has been on this throwing things away kick. Which is fine, when it is something that actually needs thrown away. I just got a new sewing/embroidery machine. I also just ordered around $50 worth of embroidery thread for it. I haven't had much time to use it so I just put the box of thread on top of my machine and left it there. Well, last week I needed the thread and couldn't find it anywhere. I looked all over the place. I pretty much tore the house apart looking for it but it was no where to be found. I even looked in our storage building and it wasn't there. After spending all day looking for it and wondering where it could be, I finally decided to look out in the place we put our trash bags until the garbage people come and get it. Well, in the second bag I picked up, there it was. I was so excited to find it but also frustrated to know that Trinity threw it away. I guess I'll have to go through the trash before I take it out now.

Trinity is at such a fun age! I can't wait to see what she learns next!

Prayer Request

***Update***
Updated to say that everyone is doing fine! Thank you all for praying!



I have a prayer request for all you my friends. My friend Ashlee text messaged me tonight wanting Steven and me to pray for her because her throat has hurt her for 3 days and she said that the pain is moving down into her neck. She can't eat because of this. She said that Matthew and Chris were getting ready to pray for her. She has blisters all in her throat. It sounds to me like she has strep throat. If that is the case, I believe it is contagious. Please pray that Matthew, Kari, and Malachi don't get it.

Also, please pray for Steven. He came home from work today sick. Trinity has been sick all week and I've been sick since Sunday. Trinity and I are both better, praise God! But please pray that Steven will be healed.

God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we could ask or think! That's just what He does! Period.

(This was posted from my iPod, so please over look any misspellings!)

Our Christmas Tree

Well guys, we finally got our Christmas tree up! Last week we finally had the time to put it up. I love our Christmas tree. I think it is so pretty! I was a little (a lot) worried about Trinity messing with it but she has been great! She likes to look at it, but she doesn't touch it! We haven't had a problem with her and I am so glad!

This year I put a tree up in Trinity's room for her.

She loves it. I decorated it in all pink! I like

her tree better than mine!

Playing In The Snow

We had our first "big" snow of the year over the weekend. I was so excited to let Trinity play in the snow. She actually liked it! I had her so bundled up that she couldn't move though. Ha! She looks like a little Eskimo!

This was Trinity's first big snow last year. Look how little she was!

This is us with the first big snow this year.

I'm really hoping that we have many big snows this year!