Service Project and Halloween Festivities
Today was a very busy day! We started off the day with a church service project at Feed My Starving Children, which is a food preparation and shipping charity. When you go there, you make packaged meals of rice, soy, dried vegetables, and chicken powder. Each packet is enough to feed 1 child 1 meal a day to keep them from starving to death. I went up there with the girls this time. Angela usually goes, but she was under the weather, so I got to go.
It was a GREAT experience! In just over 1 hour, we packed over 18,000 meals, enough to feed 57 children a meal a day for 1 year! What a great feeling! We are planning on doing this again as a ward activity again will be doing more than just 1 session.
After we finished up there, and after Angela taking everyone but Ben for pictures (his will come later and we’ll post the pictures when we get them back) we came home and got ready for a Halloween afternoon of trick-or-treating and a party with friends. The kids got all dressed up and went out to see how much candy they could get! 🙂
As you can see, Kirstyn dressed up as a 50’s girl with poodle skirt and all, Zach was being the Karate Kid, and Ben was an elephant. They had so much fun! The Raketic family came over to go out with the kids. Sarah stayed home, worked on homework, and gave out candy to the kids who came by our house.
They were out going house-to-house for about 1 1/2 hours or so. They got a TON of candy! We couldn’t believe it! We have enough to last until next Halloween (well, not really, we love candy)! 🙂 After coming in from the cold, we all sat down and had wonderful homemade chicken noodle and vegetable soup that Angela made and it warmed us right up! We spent the next little while in front of the TV, watching Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant. It was funny and we enjoyed it! We hope everyone else had a happy Halloween as well!
