Our Jesse Tree

During Advent we have been making ornaments for a Jesse tree. A Jesse tree and it's ornaments are a way to follow the story of salvation history from the creation of the world through the birth of Christ. Everyday we have learned another part of the story (through Holy Hero's Advent Adventure) and have made an ornament for our tree. The ornaments have a symbol representing a person or event.

Last Advent we made paper ornaments and taped them on a paper tree we made. This year our good friends, the Rosamonds, sent us some nice wood pieces that they cut from a birch log, and we have painted some nice ornaments that we can use year after year. We got a 3 foot tree to hang them on.

Here are some of the ornaments we made. We've added to them as the weeks have passed. We weren't able to bring the tree to GA, but we did bring the ornaments and added them to Grandma's tree so that we can continue the story through the last week of Advent.

We hope you have all had a blessed Advent preparing for the joys of the Christmas season!!