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So... this morning, we set out on our adventure for the day. We got the girls 5-point harnessed in and set out for the chiropractor, church, His Way Christian book store, lunch and finally, home. "Are we going to Africa now?" a sweet voice says somewhere between the chiropractor and the church. After a quick chuckle, we assure Mia that we're not going to Africa. However, what could possibly be going to Africa are number of the 29 boxes that were filled several days earlier for the Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child program.

A little back story: For the past couple years we, as a family, through our church, have been filling shoe boxes with things a that poverty-stricken children might need. After last year's program ended Mia told Mommy she wanted to fill 26 boxes this year for the needy children.

A few seconds later Tanya regained consciousness and asked Mia again, how many boxes she wanted to fill. Again, the answer was, "Twenty-six."

Well, as the last day to turn in the boxes approached, our Bible study group and Fusion family stepped up to help wrap, pack the goodies into all the boxes and get each box sponsored.

Today we dropped off all the boxes at His Way. Everyone did their part.

Carrying,


Stacking,

  

Rolling,

And, of course, posing.

We topped it all off with pizza from Ledo's. Can't go wrong with Ledo's.

For some reason Simone keeps trying to eat lemons.  I'm not one to argue.

Enjoy these 41 seconds of hilarity.

It's amazing - the heart this little girl has for others.  If only more of us, me included, would dream like she does. Big.  Would you have thought that a, then 3-yr old, little girl would have said "twenty-six" when asked how many of the world's poorest children she wanted to bless this Christmas?  If a little girl can bless 29 children with shoe boxes filled with fun & function, how many people could we bless if we thought outside the box a little and picked a number higher than we could count?