This was the big "65" birthday and all Marv wanted for his birthday was for each of his children to do a "Family Service Project" in the area where they lived. So Sunday we headed for Newbury Park where Lisa and Marrianne put together Marv's favorite dinner, "Pizza" and salad. Each person made their own pizza and then Dan put them on the barbeque....yes, we had barbequed pizza's and they were delicious!
These two girls put on a little singing show.
Madison had been to a school carnival where she wone a pie or a cake. She chose 'cheese cake' since that was grandpa's favorite. We also had lemon pie and ice cream.
HERE ARE THE DIFFERENT SERVICE PROJECTS 
Matt was the first "Service Project" we received in video. "We had a lot of fun doing the service project. Plus, because everyone new it was for Grandpa, we had no whining or complaining. Thanks. Great idea. i think for my Birthday I'm going to ask for clean bedrooms. (ha-ha)". Their family helped the city plant flowers in pots, with the twins laying in the shade under the table where all the beautiful flowers were. Hopefully I will be able to figure out a way to include the video soon.
Our automatic sprinkler controls had broken, so without telling us, Dan put in a new one which also has a remote. Dad really likes the remote. Here's what Lisa had to say about their project: "As for us, we worked all day Saturday (literally) on their/our yard/garden and counted that. It was a huge project. Wow, they have a big yard with tons of weeds. The kids are still young and wanted to do something a little more for grandpa, so we came up with the candy gram below. The kids had so much fun and they were even more excited to share the candy with grandpa. So, happy birthday Dad! We love you!" [And the berries she picked were delicious]
Ruth and Ben have some friends by the name of Kirk and Gretchen who live down the street from them and are in their ward. They were expecting a baby and shortly before Gretchen’s due date Ben and Ruth realized that neither of them were at church. On their was home they drove by Gretchen and Kirk’s home and saw that their car was not there. They were suspicious and decided to call Kirk’s cell phone leaving a message “We noticed you weren’t in church today, and the secret cameras we have inside your home told us no one was home. If our suspicions are correct, you are having a baby and are probably totally hungry. If you would like us to bring you some food, please call us back and we’ll drop some off for you. If our suspicions are not correct, please disregard this message.” It turned out they were, in fact, at the hospital having a baby, and both were hungry since neither of them had eaten all day and being Sunday the cafeteria was closed. Less than an hour after receiving their phone call, Ben, Ruth and Ashley were on their way to the hospital with a bag full of hot food and snacks. Kirk and Gretchen were amazed and very appreciative of their wonderful hot meal, “I want to get pregnant again ASAP so that we can get some more Harrell gourmet on the go food.”
Joe's family did a service project up at the Elk Ridge City office this Saturday morning. They weeded and clipped the hedges and flower beds in front of our city office. "Here are some pictures. Happy birthday dad. Hope you have a wonderful day".
For Youth Conference this year, the youth in our area decided to do a service project for the people living in the Reublic of Malawi which is located in southeastern Africa. John's family have decided to make this their family service project in helping collect things. Marrianne has been collecting clothing, while Madison and Brooke are asking the children from their school to help provide school supplies to be sent to Africa. John has done research on the area to teach their children.
This is what Marylyn family shared: "As a family, where everyone could help, we decided to make chocolate chip cookies for four people who have impacted our lives in some way. Andy made the cookies, Annika helped me make the cards and we all went together to share our appreciation to our friends that we chose. The card says, "Kindness: Pass it On". The families were very appreciative of the kindness (and yummy cookies) and also excited to now do something for someone else. I spoke with a couple of the mothers later in the week and they mentioned how excited their kids were and were already making a list of people they want to do something for. The reason why we chose this service project is because I don't think we share our appreciation for others as often as we should. This was a great way we could do that, and hopefully this gesture of kindness will continue on and make others feel good as well."
Here's from Dave's family, "We spent on Saturday working our tails off doing service for a sister in the ward. She has a farm outside of town and her husband isn't a farmer by any means... So she was worried about getting the farm ready for spring. David told her we would be out to help.We had racks and diggers etc. and took care of her front yard area which is bigger than our house and yard together. We racked out all the dead under growth and then Mikal would drive the tractor to scoop it up and then dump in the back field. We had a pile that was the size of two vans parked next to each other of leaves and brush etc. We felt really tired but really good to clean up the area, now she wouldn't have to pay anyone to do it. :0) we had accomplished a small part to help her on her large farm. After we were done, we helped her burn the pile talk about a bonfire. It was really cool and took 2 days to burn, still had a lot of moisture from the snow. But we had fun. She is a great lady who is very giving and so we like to give to her too. Later today we are going back to paint her fence. We should have years of service just helping her and her farm. Happy Birthday Popason!David's family ;)"Little Steven also does service by helping his mom with the laundry; she puts it on the dryer lid and he shoves it in to the dryer. then laughs. He also likes to help with raking the yard.
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