Charity Get Together

As siblings, we decided that instead of drawing eachother's names for Christmas, we would take that money and do something in the form of charity instead. We decided that each year one of us would be in charge of deciding how the money would be used. Our first year we started with my oldest brother, Jason, being in charge and have worked our way down. That year we picked names off of a Giving Tree and used our money to buy things for those families.
Last year, our second year, my older sister, Tricia, was in charge. We chose to buy materials and tie blankets to give to Primary Children's Hospital. We all gathered at the hospital and dropped off the blankets.
This year was similiar. My brother Jedd was in charge and chose to buy toys to donate to Primary Children's Hospital. Once again, we all gathered at the hospital and dropped them off. Both years we have been there, there has been an awesome Christmas tree display.

We are only missing 3 people: Haylee, Nate and Blake who are across the country in Georgia.
Grandkids

Sadie, Lindsey, Paityn, Hannah and Andee in front of one of the other neat Christmas trees they had there.

Andee and cousin Hannah in front of the big display. This was a Christmas Tree from Festival of Trees that goes on every year. It was pretty amazing.

Paityn and cousin Sadie with a surfin' Santa.

My brother Jedd's oldest daughter, Madison, was able to be there with us. We don't get to see her very often and we were so excited to see her. She's 12 years old and one of the "big kids" now. Here she is with the "older" girls.

Madison with her two little sisters, Lindsey and Hannah. They just love their big sister so much.

One of the reasons Jedd chose to donate to Primary Children's Hospital is because Madison has spent quite a bit of time there herself and they have always been so good to her.

I didn't even get a picture of them, but there were bags and bags full of toys and things for the kids at the hospital. It's kind of anti-climactic because all you can do is take the toys to the front desk and they just set them aside to be taken elsewhere later. I guess it's just a good excuse to get together :)

After dropping of the toys and things, we went to eat at Sizzler. We love Sizzler! You can make fun of us all you want but we love it!

Paityn and Brooklyn sat together and didn't shut up the entire time! She loves to be with the "older" kids.

Andee and Sadie sat together. Andee was her usual self and did a lot of talking and not a lot of eating. What some cheesy grins!

Kenadie having a good time with Dylan. She's just all over the place and didn't sit still for one minute.

So I guess it's my turn to be in charge next Christmas. I'm already thinking about it and wondering what I'll do. It's going to be good!