Happy 50th Birthday

For my 50th Birthday I organized a service project. My goal was to assemble 50 Hygiene Kits to donate to the LDS Humanitarian Center. Family and friends donated items and money for the kits. On my birthday we gathered to put the kits together. This is how the room looked before we started.

Here we are assembling them.

Here are the finished kits.

Birthday cake and ice cream followed. I served my favorite Costco cake, yummy!

For years I have asked my children not to stress over giving me a gift for my birthday or Christmas. Instead, I have asked them to give service to others or improve a talent. Last Christmas they started a warm and fuzzy jar to mark different acts service. Their birthday gift this year was to give 50 acts of service. They wrote down their service (7 from each adult and 1 from Eliza) and sent me 50 golden warm and fuzzy pompon balls.