December 26, 2008 Happy 22nd Birthday Jonathan!

Happy Birthday Jonathan! Here he is playing with his nephew Trenten. All the little kids like Jonathan. I feel sorry for him being born the day after Christmas he kinda gets cheated on his birthday..........of course I don't feel too bad for him as his parents gave him a Wii for Christmas!
~Hugs from your Auntie Sue Sue

Lunch with a Deer River High School Chum

Marlene Barrett Ketola and I have been friends since 2nd grade! How fun is that? We try and have lunch together every Christmas Season when I am back in Deer River. What a nice time we had playing "catch up" on each other's lives.

and more Christmas pics.....

Isabel with her new oven mitts!

Dad and his Senior Discount hat!

Angie and the gift she made for Grandma Reed~ She will put it on her grave (it is just the kind of thing that would of made Mom smile!)

Jeff, Angie and Tammy

The boys and their Santa Hats!

More of our Christmas............

Clarence
Jeff
Mike and Morgan
Jason and Dad
and silly Preston~ peeking out with that one eye!

Christmas in Deer River con't........

Trenton~ happiest when he had someones cane!

Dad and John

Sisters ~Sandi, Sue Sue and Cindy

Cindy and Clarence

Ami, Bryan, Trenton, Taylor and Maddi

Christmas with my family in Deer River

Charlie, Ashley and Taylor,

Gavin, Carol, Jason, Elise, Jared and Hannah

Rob, Mandy and Preston,

Gavin and Elise,

Colin

We celebrated our big Reed Christmas on Friday at the White Oak Inn and Suites in the party room. We had a yummy ham and turkey dinner with all the trimmings! It is always so fun to be together. The little ones were so excited to go swimming and open gifts! Mom was not physically with us but her presence was everywhere in the faces of her children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren!

God Comes to Us

When Jesus left heaven to come to earth most of the world was unaware of the great thing that God was doing.
He left the highest place and came to a lowly place.
He left His glory and was clothed in humility.
He left the riches of heaven to be born into a poor family.
He didn’t come into the world surrounded by dignitaries, but by animals…
He didn’t come to a palace, but to a stable...
He didn’t come wrapped in silk, but in swaddling clothes.
The rich didn’t witness His coming—they were too comfortable.
The powerful didn’t witness His coming—they were too proud.
The religious leaders didn’t witness His coming—they were too blind.
The merchants didn’t witness His coming—they were too busy.
God made the news known on a quiet hillside close to where Jesus was born.
He spoke it in phrases of wonder, through creatures of splendor, to men of low degree.
Those who were excluded from society’s fancy gatherings would be included in heaven’s greatest celebration…
Those who had little education would come to know heaven’s greatest revelation…
Those who had few possessions would come to receive heaven’s greatest gift.
What greater witnesses could there be to the coming of the Lamb of God than those who tended their flocks by night.
Like the shepherds, God comes to us in our spiritual night time to call us to His light…
He comes in our spiritual poverty to call us to the riches in His Son…
He comes in our spiritual loneliness to call us to the fellowship of His eternal celebration—
He who was wrapped in swaddling clothes has wrapped us in robes of righteousness…
He who had no place to lay His head has given us a mansion in heaven…
He who cried as His mother held Him in her arms will wipe away all our tears.

......from Meet me in the Meadows....