Food storage bandits

Tonight, our ward hosted a food drive for the neighborhood. I'll food donations were going to our local food bank. We were doing this food drive a little differently than we have in the past.

Typically, we hand out flyers a week ahead of time announcing that we will be hosting a food drive. We encourage residents to put bags of food on their porch on a certain day and time so that we can pick them up.

Tonight, however, we decided to send one group of youth out with the flyers announcing an immediate food drive. The flyer encourage people to back up some spare food and put on their porch in the next few minutes so that a second group of you could come and pick it up.

This was a huge success for us, well, at least for most of us.

For John Jr was delivering his flyers when he got stopped by a lady in the neighborhood. She reamed him out for probably two minutes. She told him that his flyer didn't have enough appropriate information. She asked him how she could tell that he was not just with a group of friends going around stealing other people's food to fill his own food storage.

The leader that was escorting John's group, said she must have yelled at him for about two minutes. The leader was afraid to go over there for fear that she would start all over again with her rampage. John handled this very well. He just smiled and kept nodding his head as the woman let out her suspicious rants.

Afterword, we had a fun time talking to John about it. He agrees that it was good preparation for his mission in the future.

It was yet another reminder how you do not get between an Idahoan and their food storage.

Quick Impromptu Visit

Dad called yesterday and was having some problems with his Pickup, so I decided to take Jake's flatbed trailer out to to him that I had been borrowing.  When I got done with work I took Aliece and Alayna with me and we headed out for a quick trip to Arbon.  

On our way out there, we stopped at Jake and Shantell's to take a look at the new baby.  He-who-must-not-be-named was definitely a cute little guy.  The three of us got the opportunity to hold the newest addition to the family.  It was a lot of fun.

I can't believe that he is already over a week old, having been born on November 6.  I am sure he has grown in that short amount of time from his 20.25 inches and 7lbs 3oz birth weight, but he still looked tiny. I always forget how small these kids are when they arrive.  (I included a picture Jake sent out when he was born, as I didn't think to snap a picture myself while we were there).

Ryker was really cute around his new brother.  He would sit next to the girls as they held the baby.  He would rub its head and give it kisses.  He had a very proud and excited look on his face the whole time.  He is going to love having a brother tagging along with him in the future.

After our visit to Jake and Shantell's, we headed off to Mom and Dad's place to visit and share some pizza together.  We couldn't stay but a couple of hours, but had a good chat.  Aliece and Alayna had a great time of course as well.