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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Our BIGGEST Day Ever!

Over the last few days we prepared almost 300 school supply kits.  Today we gave them all away!
WHAT A GREAT DAY!

At 10 am today (Saturday) we loaded 3 pick up trucks and 10 people (including Santa) and went to a place on the island called Los Fincas, which means "The Farm".  As we arrived today we could hardly believe how these folks live.  Shelley and I have been coming to Cozumel for 20 years, and this is the first time we ever knew of this place...

That said, there were smiles EVERYWHERE today, as Santa and his elf's give the children toys, t-shirts, Beany Babies, candies and SCHOOL SUPPLIES...

Shelley spent her birthday morning in the muddy jungle roads giving away school supplies and toys with Santa and the cutest Elf ever (our daughter Kelly) ! Later in the day we went to the Fireman's house to give out hotdogs and presents! She said it was her best birthday ever !

Below are some pictures that we took as we shared what we had, with all the children we could find...
Our school supplies - Ready to go!

The crew at our first house - Ready to GO!

Santa & his Elf's

Mike C, driving the truck with all the stuff in it...

Me driving this truck with water and spare candy....
 Stacy was behind me driving the red truck.  She went down side roads and brought kids out to the main road to see Santa...


Santa and Corky (the Elf)

Kelly - our beautiful Elf...

(left to right) Kathy, Santa (Ron), and Corky


someone REALLY loves Santa....

The kids just kept coming....


This is the children's reality.... Count your blessings....

Elf Tom guarding the stuff....

Happy KIDS!


Stacy delivering a bunch of kids...

Elf Margaret handing out scribblers

Everyone LOVES Santa!


The roads were VERY wet and muddy...





With all our supplies gone we went back to town tired, but happy that we found these wonderful kids....

Friday, December 19, 2014

Cozumel, Mexico

We arrived in Cozumel, Mexico a few weeks ago.  While much of our time here in Mexico will be personal, we knew that we wanted to share some school supplies with some children here on the island.

So, this week we spent time preparing to distribute what may be the largest amount of school supplies so far. We have learned of an area on the island where there is no power, no running water and no sanitation systems...  There are also hundreds of children who don't see much of Santa at Christmas...  

We have learned that Santa will be visiting these kids on Saturday morning.  Shelley and I enlisted the help of a few of Santa's elfs and have prepared more than 200 gifts of school supplies.... The ladies from our church made a whole bunch of beautiful pencil cases, but there wasn't enough, so we purchased some nice plastic bags and some ribbon and were able to make up the number we need (hopefully)...  Sadly, no matter how many we make, it won't be enough....

The good news is that all the staff at Papa Hogs were more than willing to help put our gifts together...
There is no reason not to have fun... 





Left to right:Eddie, Francisco, Jose, Margaret & Shelley

Kathy (one of Santa's Elf's) and Shelley...

You know who....



Our new packaging...
More pictures and story soon...