Today we hauled our stash of donated clothing and shoes up to the 28 foot trailer that's going to haul them to CA. We took our van and my parents stock trailer to haul them. We brought 155 bags of clothing and 18 bags of shoes. We are guessing the total amount loaded today from us and what the other 3 families had was 400 bags of clothes and 200 of shoes. Back in Dec Jared and I took another trailer full of stuff we collected up there of about 100 bags of clothes and 30 of shoes so needless to say I'm DONE with shoes and clothes (for now) lol
A friend on Facebook offered some garage sale leftovers today to us from their high schools fundraiser sale so one of the families that live closer will be getting those today. We hope to have the check from this in about 2 weeks. We already know we were nowhere near our goal but we tried our hardest......thank you to everyone who gave us stuff:) we appreciate it very much :)
This was our stock trailer
Yeah.....my van got stuck in the mud after we had unloaded and were trying to leave!!! One of the other dads had to tow us out with his truck after we unhooked the trailer then the men and 3 teen/tween girls lifted/turned the trailer by hand and myself and 2 other mamas stood on the back of the trailer to hold it down.....fun times y'all!
My 13 year old twin nieces and 11 year old daughter on the way home after unloading it all.
Your nieces look like you! Remember the money would have been great but the donations are going to a great cause and the orphan story was shared many times. You may never know this side of heaven how many lives are and have been touched by this drive.
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