tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78688061004536173822012-02-16T16:42:52.182-08:00Sharing the events of our lives with our friends and family.Mike Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01841022511526107331noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7868806100453617382.post-3906989313723361252009-01-14T12:19:00.000-08:002009-01-14T13:00:10.730-08:00A week or so ago I received an email from Mickey inviting me to join Facebook. I have enjoyed it emmensly. Touching base with people I haven't seen or heard from in years. I am also excited that I can share pictures of our grandchildren. I hope my circle of friends can increase.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7868806100453617382-390698931372336125?l=mikeandjoyjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01841022511526107331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7868806100453617382.post-62735925487558336042008-12-30T12:25:00.001-08:002009-01-14T16:11:31.117-08:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_86SSECnjREI/SVqFW4KRD6I/AAAAAAAAAv8/Wlr26XdAAyo/s1600-h/DSC_0155.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285683740751761314" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_86SSECnjREI/SVqFW4KRD6I/AAAAAAAAAv8/Wlr26XdAAyo/s320/DSC_0155.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_86SSECnjREI/SVqErA8MhAI/AAAAAAAAAvc/v9gB18UXmmY/s1600-h/DSC_0154.JPG"></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Christmas has once again come and gone. What a great time of the year. We get to experience so many wonderful feelings. Getting together with family and friends. Partaking of a great array of foods and sweets. Listening to great and uplifting music. Hearing of the Savior's birth and the love of our Heavenly Father.</span></div><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">We get to decorate and light our homes in celebration of this wondrous time. I love to put the tree up. I must confess that over the past three of four years we've used a lighted fake tree. It reduces the stress 0f the event greatly. I remember how much my dad loved Christmas tree's, whether it was green or white flocked (he did love those white ones). One thing we don't do, at least in our home, that we did when I was young was the icicles. Once the lights were on and the ornaments hung we put the icicles on... one strand at a time... and it was something in the neighborhood of 25 or 30 boxes. It was so beautiful when we were done.</span></p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_86SSECnjREI/SW5P8hbfo3I/AAAAAAAAAxs/eQRv3L1nnVg/s1600-h/DSC_0270.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291254513391346546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_86SSECnjREI/SW5P8hbfo3I/AAAAAAAAAxs/eQRv3L1nnVg/s320/DSC_0270.JPG" /></a><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">This year Chris and Debi came from Chicago to visit. It was great having them and their children in our home. It was fun to have them opening presents and seeing their excitement. Over Christmas and the following day or two we got to see all of our local grandchildren. Here in this picture we have Chris, Kirk and Pat's kids... cute (beautiful) kids all. L-R: Ella, Corbin, Lucy, Nicholas, Thomas, Lexie, Jack, Christopher holding Red, Liam and Guy on the floor. In fact all with last of Jackson which puzzled a couple of the younger ones.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">On Saturday night Chris invited a bunch of his friends from years past. During that event we had 13 kids between 6 mos. and 8 years. All-in-all we had 19 adults plus the kids. Brother and Sister Romney and Bishop and Sister Jensen showed up also. Scottie Jensen looked over where we three old men where sitting on some stools and said we looked like the old Muppet's in the balcony. </span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">So Christmas 2008 has passed but we shall have the memories for a long time to come.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7868806100453617382-6273592548755833604?l=mikeandjoyjackson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mike Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01841022511526107331noreply@blogger.com3