The Jesse Tree

I'm always looking for something different to do for the holidays and this year I stumbled upon the Jesse Tree. I had never heard of it before, but, after a little research, decided it would be fun for all of us. It is basically the main stories of the Bible along with the lineage of Christ, hence the name Jesse tree. I downloaded and printed the pictures and every night one person would color and cut out the picture ornament and Koby or Baylee would read the verse that went along with it. We put a smaller Christmas tree upstairs and deemed it the Jesse Tree and that's were all the paper ornaments are hung.  We also had each kid draw another kid's name to have a Secret Sibling gift exchange and those gifts are being put under the Jesse Tree, as well. Some nights are hard to get us all together to read and color, but it's been a fun and educational time as we try to keep our focus on Christ when it is so easy to be distracted by other things!

The older kids were at basketball this night so Troy and Kelby read out of their Bible! Hard to believe they are reading!  They are growing up quick!