Jesse Tree #2 & #3

For anyone who ever looks at this blog, you know that I don't always get things done in the timeline that I set for myself. And so, even though we did actually do the Jesse Tree last night, I did not have an opportunity to give a report on it or even tell you what you needed if you were going to do it.

Sorry sorry sorry...really...if you were doing it I hope I didn't mess you up.

So, anyway, here was last night's Jesse Tree event...

The story was the first sin.

We had
ribs from Swadley's (for the making of Eve)
applesauce (for the forbidden fruit)
rice (for the food that they had to work for now, because of sin...because you have to cook rice...)
and crescent rolls.... just "because".

For the dessert, I wanted to have Cowtails (the are a long piece of caramel) for the snake, but I couldn't find them this year. I will need to do some planning ahead next year, because I do like those.

Darth suggested, after the fact, that we could have candied apples/caramel apples (again capitalizing on the fruit idea) and maybe we will next year.... this has always been a work in progress in the 6 years that we have done it.

What we actually DID this year was use gummy worms...which everyone liked just fine.

For the story, again, you can use Paul Dallgas-Frey (I am spelling his name correctly today...sorry Paul) who has a story about the making of Eve, the original sin, and consequences of their sin. Or you can just use the Bible which is great. Or whatever you and your family would enjoy.

We made a pomegranate and a rubber snake hot glued on a few years back, so that is what we use on our tree.

Now....for today.

We are doing Noah today...so
fish sticks
potato boats
some veggie
animal crackers
and blue jello.

Our ornament is a rainbow that the kids colored and a fake dove I bought at Hobby Lobby one year, hot glued on.

The story is actually this in the Bible, but if you use Paul's stuff, you may want to start with this one and follow through the flood (ending with a Rainbow and a Promise)

Tomorrow (in case I don't get in here until the afternoon or something) we are doing Abraham...

For the ornament we used a black piece of paper with sticker stars (kids like to do it...just the office kind, not a scrapbook kind of caliber)..ours is about 2 feet long and about 6 inches wide. We kind of weave through the tree.

And the food is
tiny pasta (like orzo pasta) for the stars in the sky
a veggie
some big piece of meat (probably not a whole calf...)
and some bread...if you are really industrious, you can make your own (not happening here) or make a loaf of frozen bread (like Rhodes). The smell would add to the senses in the story.

Planning to check in tomorrow...Happy Jesse Treeing!