Sunday, November 11, 2007

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Operation Christmas Child or That Shoebox Thing

{I don't think I've ever done this; Mike brought me home from church. ::snort:: I have that underlying migraine, and symptoms of a bladder infection, he found out right before we taught Sunday School that he has to preach in the 2:00 service.....During the 1100 service Mike would have been teaching Children's Church (usually only our children) and I would have been in the cry room with Stacia. So the older boys stayed for service and the littles and I are home. Mike is preparing for the next service. SO.....I'll update on THIS!}

We have been putting off shopping for our shoeboxes because I was DETERMINED that I would do this with the family.

We made it happen yesterday afternoon. We had planned one shoebox per person - 9 boxes (maybe 11 as we'd count the girls too).

We went shopping - some to Walmart and some to Dollar Tree.

These balls only work well in BIG size 13 New Balance boxes. ::snort::Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

These dolls worked great.

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Believe it or not THIS is organized!
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Mike bought 4 soccer balls and 4 pumps to put in boxes for older boys. We had heard that they got more boxes for younger children than older children so we did 4 boxes for 10-14 yo boys and 4 for 10-14 yo girls. They were fun to put together.
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We met our goal. We had to call Mr. & Mrs. K and ask them to bring us more shoe boxes - which they were happy to do. We had 16 boxes when we were done.

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The girls taking boxes into chapel. Arielle is wearing a OCC t-shirt; she's not just being sloppy at church - you NEED to know that. ::snort::

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Jared manned the inventory table, the older boys helped pack them into big crates after service. Here are the boxes that were up front when we had to leave.
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The older boys came home with more boxes. THEY hadn't filled any as they were at work...this saga continues. This is a really fun Christmas service project. You fill a shoe box, put a check for postage ($7) in the top of the box, and attach a tag telling what gender/age the box is for. All the forms can be printed here . I decided I was NOT writing 20 checks for $7 so I'll simply donate online and I wrote "doanted online" on the form. We were told to fill a box even if you can't pay the shipping for each box because others give year round to help with the postage of the boxes.
I'm going to go drink a gallon of water, some apple cider vinegar and cream of tartar and lay down....
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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket PARADE!!!!

This weekend is full of events celebrating Veteran's Day. Mike took Arielle and Nolan to watch the parade. Jared marched in it with CAP. I put a movie on for Zander and Staica (Ugh) and went to bed with a heating pad and 2 Excederin Migraine. Not to be psycho, but I think these meds are doing bad things to my stomach. LOL

Here are some photos in no particular order. I think Mike knew most everyone in the parade. LOL

Staging area and CAP float
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Our wing commander and sweet wife
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Our favorite participant
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These TX Longhorns are HUGE
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No W TX parade would be complete without a representative from the bug world ::snort::
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Balloons
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There were clowns, highschool marching bands, political floats, some princess of some sort, and lots of military representatives...but this is enough for a taste.
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