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!
Well, fall is here and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to get any warmer! It’s been cold and/or rainy for the past 2 weeks. The leaves are starting to turn colors and it’s very beautiful. The only problem with the leaves starting to turn is that we know winter will be here soon! 🙁 It has been an unusually cold year and we have had crazy weather. So much for global warming! This year has been one of the coolest in the record books! 🙂 I guess people will have to start thinking about global cooling maybe?
Well, Zach’s first soccer season is over. He played his last game today! When we got up and got ready to go, it was raining a little outside and it was very cold. Then it turned to SNOW! Looks like global warming is alive and well! 🙂 We bundled him up and we went and played! I was kind of hoping that it would stay snowing but it didn’t and the field was just wet. That would have made for some GREAT pictures!
Brittany had her final middle school Conference Cross Country meet today at DuPage River Park. There were 20+ schools there competing and she ran her race in just over 16 minutes. That’s a personal best for her and she is getting better and better. It was a beautiful day for the race and the course was very nice too. They got to run in and around a forest of trees on a nice path as well as down some much looked-forward-to hills. 🙂 The 7th grade girls took second for their grade and that won the school a banner to put up in the gym. Everyone was very excited!
Today was a busy day also. We started off with Zach’s soccer game. They lost, but the kids played great and they are getting better and better every week. I love the fact that the most important thing is just to have fun and that the score really doesn’t matter. We got some good pictures, but the day before at Brittany’s cross country meet, Benjamin got a really sticky, gooey finger right in the center of the lens of the camera, so all the pictures came out blurry.
Today was a VERY busy day! Brittany had a cross country meet after school today at Waubonsie High School. It was for all of the middle schools in the district. It was very cold (down into the low 40s), but she had her best meet so far this year! She came in 17th of about 50-60 8th grade girls. Maybe she runs better when it’s cold outside! She received a ribbon for her efforts! 🙂 Angela, Kirstyn, and Benjamin went to see her run and cheered her on as she ran in the cold! 🙂 Overall, Still Middle School did GREAT! The 7th graders, as usual, took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. For the 8th graders, Brittany’s friend came in 2nd.