Service Project- February

I was preparing a craft for Bryce's 1st grade Valentine's day party and saw this cute heart pillow. It was too difficult for 1st graders but I had an idea...

What about making bunches of these little pillows and donating them to Primary Children's Hospital for the patients.

And voila! Another service project was born. 

I emailed the children's hospital volunteer director and told her what I was thinking. She suggested I make kits for the teenage patients to make their own pillows. 

Then we invited friends over and went to town!

After almost two hours, we had almost 45 kits made. (And Amber and her boys helped us again. thank you friends.)

I took a few more days to finish a few more kits and then delivered them a week before Valentine's Day. I invited my mom to come with me and then we had lunch at a cute little French cafe. 

51 Pillow Kits

It was fun on Valentine's Day to think about patients making the pillows. And now its time to figure out a March service project!

Service Project- January

As I was making New Year's resolutions, I thought it would be awesome if I could manage a service project every quarter. And lo and behold, I saw on Facebook, through a friend who liked another friend's post (Facebook is so funny that way). 

Regardless of HOW I found out about this opportunity, I was so glad I did!

The American Heart Association had a campaign to bring attention to congenital heart defects in children called Little Hats, Big Hearts.  They service project was to crochet or knit red hats for babies and donate them to the American Heart Association and Primary Children's Hospital. 

So Camille and Rachel and I got to work and made about 15 hatsA neighbor, Amber Mohlman, and her boys also made some hats. Even Sterling got in on the action and made a little loom hat. It was awesome and I feel like God just sort of placed the opportunity in my lap. 

Because of a horrible snow storm, I couldn't donate on the deadline so I was a day late. But it all turned out ok and the lady at the desk was so appreciative. We were both on the verge of tears by the time I left.