Super Saturday & DCFS Service Project

For those of you who've asked, here are pics of the Albany DCFS Service Project & Super Saturday Crafts : )

For the service project we made backpacks out of t-shirts.

Lots and lots of sewing!

Then we filled the bags with blankets, stuffed animals, toiletries, books, crayons, etc.  These bags will be given to kids entering the foster care system.  Our goal was to help provide them with something of comfort/security that was their own.

Our goal was to make 20 bags.

That's 36 bags piled in the back of my car!!! 

 Super Saturday Crafts

All the wood crafts came from Thoughtsinvinyl.com.

And . . . I just liked my poster : )

The End.

Bar Harbor & Acadia National Park

Driving to Maine on Friday night it was nice and cold!  Cold enough that I was taking pictures each time the temperature dropped outside thinking it couldn't get any colder, but I was wrong!

Wait for it . . . 21 below zero!  Burrrrrr!  That's cold!

Who's crazy enough to go on vacation when it's that cold?  

That's right.  We are!

An icy winter wonderland!

To give the kids a break from being in the car, we tried to find a place to go sledding, but couldn't find a hill without a ton of trees.  So we ended up pulling the kids on the sled behind the car.  This turned out to be a highlight of our trip!  I think John and I had as much fun as the kids!

Sorry the pictures aren't great, but our photographer is seven and didn't think to move the shopping bags : )

One of my other favorites from our trip was when Gabe kept calling the buoys in the harbor "boobies."  Love this kid!

Maine was cold, but beautiful!  We sure enjoyed our time playing, resting, and relaxing!  Maybe next time we visit it'll be a little warmer : )

Christmas 2013

We've been spoiled this year by having John's parents with us for Thanksgiving and my parents with us for Christmas!  Here's some of what we did this week.

We visited The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.  If you are a baseball fan, this is a must see!

 

Christmas Morning! 

 New York State War Museum

 A great chance to play with my new camera lense : )