Letting Our Lights Shine

Over the past month, we have had a couple of chances to do community service events, which allows us to as a family help think about others - it has been a great experience.  The first was the Orlando Cares event for packing food for Puerto Rico hurricane victims.  It was down at the convention center, and we packed food (chili can, chips, granola bar, apple sauce and a little dessert) in boxes.  Afterwards they fed us lunch and gave us free tickets to the Southern Women's show!  Addison was even old enough to join us, so it was a really great experience.

Starting to pack the meal boxes

Proud of this family!

As we walked out, a lady was standing there and saw Addison and gave her this crown - she was in seventh heaven! 

Pretty princess

Pretty finger nails and lipstick samples!

The next event was the Adventurers Can Collecting.  Addison has always been too young before to miss her nap, so this was the first time that Amy and Addison have gone but the Z-men have gone many times.  We actually just hand out the bags themselves and then the Pathfinders go to pick up the filled bags a few weeks later.  It was a beautiful day for the event, and it was fun to walk around outside enjoying the fresh air!

Kieran and Kaleb

Erik and Kaleb hanging out on the bus from one subdivision to the next

Our most recent community outreach was "Pack the Forest" which is sponsored by our church at the Academy gym.  The meals are basically oats, spices, rice etc in a bag that they then boil.  The event packed 65,000 meals!

Kieran tagged along with us for this one, while Addison and Daddy stayed at home for a nap!

In other news, we have also had a few weddings over the past month that we went to (one of the reasons we haven't posted on our blog for so long is that we were out of town!).  The first wedding was a coworker of Amy's from her AHS days, so it was lovely to witness their wedding celebration.  They had a foot washing as part of the ceremony, it was very unique!

We do - 18 years later!

The happy couple!

Random picture:

One day Addison insisted on taking her fishing pole to Miss Jennifer's - and actually caught a few fish!