What an amazing experience we all had this week! We were contacted by 2 family friends about helping some families out for Christmas. As a foundation we decided that this falls right in with our mission statement and helping the children of the world! As a group the guys all got together and went shopping! After going through donated items and our trip to Wal-mart we were able to put together a huge Christmas surprise for 3 families! Each child received several outfits, socks and undies, and their Christmas wish lists were filled, with extra surprise presents to boot! 
Two of the families lived about 15 min. from us and we went as a group to deliver the gifts to them, the little kids were adorable and their eyes were huge as they watched us walk in with brightly wrapped gifts!
 The last family was about a 2 hour drive away. It was snowing hard and we had to drive through a canyon to get there, but as we were on our way, the weather cleared long enough for us to make it! This beautiful little girl sat shyly on a chair in the front room, while her mother stood by and talked with us, tears streaming down her face. Both parents recently lost their jobs. As a group we gave her an Elmo live doll and Ellie of course jumped up on the chair with her and "helped" her, showing her how it worked! It was a great experience! The best part: As we loaded back into the truck to head on our 2 hour drive home we looked up to the 2nd story window..that shy little girl was standing in the window with a huge smile on her face, waving and blowing kisses to us! One of the boys commented "That made my year!" Indeed the whole experience was life changing! We plan to help additional local families during the holidays in the years to come!