Operation Christmas Child Has Come and Gone

I have to say that I love children and love to do anything that I can for them. Our church told us about two weeks ago that we would be doing Operation Christmas Child again this year. I got excited and asked Andrew how many we could do. I love what this stands for and the children that it goes to! Andrew said we could do one of each this year! I got really excited then. So, last Tuesday night we went to eat at Wiseguys' Pizza and went shopping for the boxes. We spent so much time looking for great ideas to put in the boxes. It was so much fun. Andrew was a great help with the boy's box! He became a kid again and enjoyed playing with the stuff. I didn't think to take the camera shopping with us, but I did get pictures of us trying to pack them. It was like playing Tetris trying to get all that stuff in there. We finally made it work though.

I'm glad we bought them a toothbrush and paste due to all that candy that we bought them! Andrew trying to figure out how to close the box!!

Andrew's thinking, "I've got it!!" Casper and Lady thought they should try the candy out first!

As you can tell from the picture above, Lady loved the candy!! No I didn't let them eat it! They got to lick it for as long as I could hold on to it! So, yesterday at church was the day to bring all the boxes in! Our church pulled in 60!! I was so proud!! THe kids will love them!

Please help pray for the boxes and the people are going to help deliver them. I'm so glad God could provide us with the funds to do two this year!

Fall(Spring) Cleaning

I have been for a long time waiting to really clean my house. I wanted to do it over the summer, but since I had to take a class then, I decided to do it this fall. Let me tell you, my house really needed it. I started on it two weeks ago and finally finished on Friday. What I hated the most is the clean up after the cleaning is done. If you don't get that, let me explain. It's like putting the mop bucket up, vacuum cleaner, and placing the chairs back around the kitchen table. I hate that part! I have also pushed the furniture (Thank you Andrew!!) around and shampooed all the carpets, washed the base boards. I've gotten in such a serious cleaning mode that I even moved the washer and dryer and cleaned behind them. Here are the pictures:

I even used the vacuum cleaner hose to put down in the dryer hose to suck out all the lent. That was gross, but at least I know that if there's a house fire that that is not the cause.

This next picture is one of the closets that I wanted to clean out last year, but ran out of time.

I should have gotten a before picture, but I forgot. Take my word for it; it looks so much better and things are not falling out on you when you open the door!