christmas letter 2009

Dear Family and Friends[J1] ,
We are entering one of the greatest seasons of the year. It is a joy to celebrate together the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ.
January- We really didn’t have much happening I went to the Ladies luncheon at Church. It was really nice they had a good speaker. We had the BIMI missions conference: it is always nice to have the missionaries come and show us their fields.
February- was Our first Valentines Day as a married couple. I cooked a nice dinner for Jon and we had a good evening together. Our truck broke down in February and it would Cost more money then we had to fix it. So we prayed, and God answered our prayers and now we have a Plymouth Colt. It is a really nice car a 1992. We also sold our truck for 800 dollars to the guy who sold us the Colt. Isn’t God good?!?
March- our Sunday School class had It’s annual progressive dinner. It was nice of course, we both ate too much; there goes the pounds we had lost. Also in march my aunt and cousin and her 2 boys came out to see us on their way to my aunt’s house in Placentia. It was a great visit We really enjoyed seeing them just wished it was a longer visit.
April our Easter was a quiet one this year We enjoyed going to our church ‘s cantata a great service. We also went with Jon’s coworker and his wife to the San Diego Zoo It was a lot of fun. The Lord was directing us to buying our first house. We thought at first we were going to get Jon’s mom’s house, but that did not work out. So we began seriously looking around.
May-Our Church had its annual mother/daughter luncheon The theme was Bear all things’ It was really a nice time together for all the mothers and daughters. We put an offer in on a house we liked very much and hoped we could get it That house fell through, so we put in another offer on a house. Jon was working 10 hr days and weekends too so I felt like I hardly saw him. Our dear friends Brad and Lola from Oregon came to visit us at our bunkhouse.
June- - We celebrated our 1st year anniversary Sure didn’t seem like it had been a year. I helped in VBS at church. The Lord sure blessed us this year with a lot of helpers. We finally had a house in escrow It seems like you go up and down with trying to buy a house!
July- We moved into our new house! It is 1104 sq feet so we have a lot more room. It is real nice. We have some work that needs to be done with the house but that take time. Thank you for all who have been praying for us through this. God sure is good to us. Well, the minute we moved into our house it seemed like Jon started fixing things he put new door knobs on the screen doors, cause I could not get in with the old ones. Then he put lights in our bedroom which were badly needed Jon got laid off due to the nation’s economy. We enjoyed spending first year of married life in the Shorts’ bunkhouse where we were quite happy.
August Well, God provided work for Jon: some of the church people needed help, or jobs done; and God provided work. We had to paint the outside of the house. It looks much better now. We watched our friends’ dogs while they went on vacation.
Sept- Well we started serving another year with our church king’s kids Jon is the club secretary, and I help in the 1st through 3rd grade class, On Sept 12 we drove to Placentia go see my cousin. She just had a baby in July and we were so excited for her. It was a really nice time with them. On Sept 22 Jon was asked to come back to work: praise the Lord’ We have been wanting a dog, so on Sept 29 we went and got Rosco He is a miniature pincher, a very well behaved 10 week old puppy. Roy short guided Jon on some landscaping for our new home.
Oct—Our puppy was so sick he got parvo, so we took him to the vet and they gave him an IV and some shot and gave us some medications and I think the Lord spared his life So thank you all who Prayed Jon and I, and my dear friend Abby went to the Pumpkin Patch and Oak Glen for outing We had a fun time. Our church celebrated It’s 46th anniversary as a church It was a great day. Jon built a fence for our puppy it is so nice.
Nov- I turned 34 on November 10: I feel old. My husband spoiled me! We celebrated Thanksgiving with my Friend and her family we went to Idyllwild for dinner: it sure was beautiful up there. This year we have a lot to be thankful for a new house,and a healthy puppy. Rosco ran away on thanksgiving please pray he will return to us soon.
Had various friends over for dinner tried to do this once a month
Jon serves as the bookstore manger at our church, and I serve in the nursery once or twice a month.
May the new year 2010 be a great year for all of you God is good!
Jon and Jenny Sherwood

[J1]

our hearts are aching

Well we made a huge mistake on thanksgiving we left our little rosco in my best friends yard while we went to Idywild and he got out and has been gone 3 day seem like forever...please pray that he will return to my girlfriends or call us or call the pound or shelter...we miss him dearly...Hope you all had a good thankgiving...God has blessed us in so many ways..

thankfulness

I just Love this picture...we did this for our Christmas cards..This seems like the perfect picture. Well are doing well..We are so thankful for so many things this thanks giving..a new house to us,a dog that lived,our health,Jon's job good friends good church..we hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving...we have been busy fixing our house..last saturday our garbage disosal
thank goodness for home depot then the same day our tolilet decide to break so we had to get a new flusher...welcome to the life of owning your own home....

oakglen and The pumpkin patch ....

Well we went to oakglen and took some pictures and we had to share our Dog
with everyone...

We went to the pumpkin patch....

Jon had to try a squash on...........

I love my little Family......

Us at the pumpkin patch rosco would not look...we were able to

take him with us...We went on a corn maze it was fun hope you

have a great week...

Playing with a screwdriver...

God is sure good to us we thought we would have lost rosco to parvo but God sure healed
him....and now he is acting like a real healthy puppy...running ,Jumping,bitting,chewing on
our shoes etc...

We Just wish he would master going to the bathroom outside the house....

Thanks for your prayers...

Puppy Love

Well this our new puppy we named him rosco he is 10 weeks old he is such a baby...He follows me around all the time We love this puppy so much..... He started to throw up this morning Which I thought was kinda odd cause I felt it was not right so I had to take him to the vet this morning Here he is with my best friend abby...We found out the reason he was throwing up....was he has parvo...so he is at my friends house and she is giving him pedialite 2 times an hour and his medicine 3 times a day...tell we can get him through this hump in his little life...This is his 1st doctor visit..Please pray for him these next 8-9 days will be the most critical once he is passed that he should be fine...If you have dogs get them their vaccinate your dogs...The parvo shot needs to be done once a year..

This is the day we brought him home he had pravo then and the ladie did not even tell us he had it....But I beleive God sent us there to try to save his life please continue to pray for me and us...

I will keep u up to date on the his status...

The diaper bag

Well I thought I would share this with you....I made a diaper tote for one of my friends who is having a baby in november...This takes like 3 to 4 months to get it done.

We are doing well God is so good to us....

prov 4:13