We didn’t see the Ostler side of the family on Thanksgiving Day so we decided to get together on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I reserved the church gym for the day and we spent a good chunk of our time together working on a service project we are doing together as a family Christmas present this year. Instead of Christmas gifts for each other we decided to make humanitarian aid school kits for less fortunate children in other countries. Our goal was to get 50 school bags sewn today so that when Christmas came we would have them ready to go and be able to stuff them with all of the supplies we had purchased. We were able to get a huge part of them done today thanks to David’s awesome abilities on the serger, Linda and Mom “The sewing Queens”, David manning the iron board (can anyone say “IronMan”), My awesome cutting skills, Dan and David’s speedy hands on turning 100 handles inside out, and last but not least Dad and his ingenious invention, which only took 1 hour to create :) Thanks for all of your back breaking work today guys!
A lot of the boys time was spent turning these 2 foot by 1 inch handles inside out. David was the fastest at it hands down. In the picture above you see Dan and David in a race to see who could do it the fastest. David won by a long shot.
To keep the kids busy while we worked on the service project, Linda and I set up some fun activities for them to do. We had a movie room, toy room, play dough table, sugar cookies to frost, board games to play, Christmas ornaments to make, coloring pages to color, and chalkboards with chalk. OVERKILL?? I think NOT!! :)
The kids had a blast playing with their cousins today!
After putting all of these pictures together I noticed a reoccurring theme throughout all of them. See if you can guess what I’m talking about.
We finished out our evening with a lasagna dinner that we pot-lucked, and then moved onto the taping of our annual family Nativity video. This has been a fun tradition that David and Linda started a few years ago where we dress the kids up in costumes and video tape them acting out the Nativity Story. It makes for some fun Christmas Eve’s when we get to see the end result of all the taping and editing thanks to David Bruns, our resident video specialist.
It made for a long day. But totally worth it. The memories made will never fade.
Good Times!
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Hasn't Kayleb been pulling faces in pictures since....forever too? ha ha.
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