Jones/Henley Christmas at the "cabin"

We gathered with the Jones family on Saturday, Dec 26th for our annual holiday celebration. We met this year at Steve and DiAnn's cabin in Clarksville, MO. The snow was falling and it was beautiful. Mom and Flo

The Henley guys tried skeet shooting for the first time and had a blast!

J.D. modeling some cold weather gear Steve had for him to wear!

The Jones ladies - DiAnn, Amber and Lesley (Justin's wife). Justin and Lesley were married on December 20th.

Happy 25th Anniversary Lori and Rod!

Happy 25th Anniversary! Lori and Rod were married December 29, 1984 at the Maryland Heights Church of Christ. Here are some pics from the last 25 years!

Some Christmas Favorites

Christmas Eve we celebrate with Uncle Mike and his family. We play games and do a gift card exchange. It has been our tradition since we were children to gather on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day we share breakfast and then open stockings and presents. Kyle on Christmas morning - waiting to open presents.

Jake playing pin the nose on the snowman Christmas Eve.

Colton, Uncle Mike and Dad playing "hot bell"!

Colton getting a chuckle during our gift card exchange!

We wrap our gift cards up in a variety of ways - this was Marlin's this year!

Grandma knew Matthew needed this hat for crazy hat days at school! It was in his stocking.

One of the games we played was giving each team a bag of alphabet pasta and 7 minutes to see how many Christmas words they could make - it got intense!

Picking through the pasta!

Carla and the "big" twins - they will be 10 in January. Carla was their first babysitter.

Eric modeling his Tyler Griffey jersey and Illini basketball shorts on Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas from the Henleys!

Christmas Eve we gather with the Henley's. This year Santa's helper "The Elf" came for a surprise visit! He was the hit! Jack, Luke, Reagin and Katy with the Elf (Uncle Marlin)
The younger cousins - Katy, Luke Reagin, Jack - Back: Colton, Jake, Eric,Matt, Kyle

Uncle Mike, Aunt Carol, Carolyn and Marlin

Adult Cousins - Lori and Rod, Susan and Mark, JD and Carla, Nancy

Marlin and Carolyn on Christmas morning

Lori and Rod

J.D. and Carla

SLU vs UMKC Basketball

J.D., Colton, Kyle, Eric and Aunt Nancy went to the SLU vs UMKC basketball game this evening. It was at Chaifetz Arena on the SLU Campus. The guys wanted to go to this game to see Alex Bazzell, St. Charles West Grad '09, play basketball. We had all enjoyed watching Alex play at SCW. UMKC lost to SLU by 7 points.

Alex is #3

Celebrating with Kyle

This is one of the things Kyle asked for . . . . .

Dinner at Bandana's

We started the morning with donuts before Bible Class. . his "little" friends Kalista and Isaac were ready to celebrate with him!

Happy 19th Birthday Kyle !

Happy Birthday Kyle Aaron! Kyle was born December 20, 1990 in blizzard type conditions. Kyle - hope your day is marvelous! We all love you! Graduation, May 2009

Christmas, 2001

Who could resist giving this child anything?

Going to see Santa at the "fancy" mall - Plaza Frontenac

Mr. Eat Neat - Ky used to be one messy eater!

What a blessing to have had him in our 2 and 3 yr old Bible Class!

What Power!

You just have to love that hair!