Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Jonas family community service...

Tess and Dorothy getting all the supplies ready to stuff backpacks...


Cameron loads backpacks after they are filled with supplies
Christine helps load filled backpacks in the car...
the kids and I organizing supplies to load into the backpacks

The kids and I helped Dorothy stuff backpacks for needy kids. This is our first chance to volunteer for Joshua Ministries- Jeff and I are now on the board of Joshua ministries and so happy to begin with this backpack drive!! The backpack project has grown over the last 5 years and we now do 500 backpacks each year at back to school time. Joshua Ministries received requests for 387 backpacks so far this year. We contacted our friend Perry and once again he so generously donated 100 backpacks to our project. I love that Tess, Christine and Cameron were able to serve and spend a day helping others!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

bloopers...from our CHRISTMAS CARD PHOTO





...tried to get our Christmas photo before CHristine leaves for college...very challenging to get 4 kids to all smile on cue!!! We may have to try again before she leaves next week!!