The Act of Giving!!

Happy one day before Thanksgiving everyone!! Here is an update on our donation for the troops. (Orignal post here and second update here.) A week ago I finally finish collecting and boxing everything up for the troops for the organizer Mary to pick it up. Here are the photos!!


These magazines and yummy snacks were given to us by my Mom's co-worker Anita M.


Tina on behalf of Dreamstar Parties donated a few more magazines, some chocolate, cereal bars, and organic vegetarian chili!!


A great package all the way from Hawaii from wonderful photographer Eddy Fong on behalf of Renai Photo sent in some yummy Hawaiian snacks!!


Newark's dentist Scott Nguyen and his staff from Sunnysmile Dental donated 29 magazines!!


On behalf of our household (Mom, Shirley, also Shirley's parents, and I) we donated a few more stationary items, loads of pens, and also some canned soup!!




The Hayward Library were so kind and allowed us to take as many books as we were able to carry!! Thanks to them for their very generous donation of 109 books. We chose the books from book sale. Please visit them for their great sidewalk book sales held often!!


Here are group shot photos of all the total goodies collected!!










When Mary came over with Baby Emily there was so much construction going on, it was going to be a pain in the butt to carry it all down the stairs while the construction workers were working on the stairs. We got so lucky, they saw us carrying some boxes and offered to help us. They carried all the boxes out of the house within literally minutes!! Those boxes were soooo heavy, them helping us saves us so much work!! Here is a photo of ALL of our hard work packed away in the van!! It's literally PACKED!!




Reading Material:
Magazines: 83
Books: 241
TOTAL: 324 Reading Material

Stationary Items:
Pens: 2 boxes
Markers: 1 box
Envelopes: 6 boxes
Stationary Paper: 11
Stationary Sets: 2
Memo Books: 2
TOTAL: 24 Stationary Items

Health/Beauty Items/Feminine Products:
Lip gloss/Chap stick: 6
Hair Ties: 2 sets
Shaving Creme: 2 bottles
Leg Shaving Razors: 2 boxes
Nail Care (mani and pedi full sets): 2 sets
Baby Wipes: 4 boxes
Bars of Soap: 7 bars
Candles: 5
Body Scrubs: 4
Shower Gels: 17
Lotions: 2
Deodorant: 6
Ointments: 5
TOTAL: 64 Health/Beauty Items/Feminine Products

Snacks/Foods:
Toffee Nuts: 3 packages
Sunflower Seeds: 8 packages
Pumpkin Seeds: 1 package
Sour Prunes: 2 packages
Popcorn: 3 boxes
Gum: 5 packets of 5 (25 total)
Cereal Bars: 5 boxes
Cream Cookie Pies: 2 boxes
Swiss Rolls: 2 boxes
Nutty Bars: 4 boxes
Powdered Donuts: 2 boxes
Hot Chocolate: 4 boxes
Tea: 4 boxes of 125 (500 total)
Roasted Peanuts: 4 cans
Assorted Candies: 4 bags/boxes
Hawaiian Snacks: 7
Canned Soup: 4
Chocolate: 1
Canned Chili: 1
Cheese Sandwich Crackers: 2 boxes
Chewy Granola Bars: 2 boxes
Animal Crackers: 1 box
TOTAL: 71 Snacks/Foods

Entertainment:
DVDs: 5
Games: 14
TOTAL: 19 Entertainment

GRAND TOTAL: 502 DONATED ITEMS!!



Wow the first batch of donations we had 293 items donated and I was amazed with that number and now with our second batch joining in the first batch we have a grand total of 502!! I'm just blown away!! Thank you so much everyone for all of your hard work!! I appreciate everyone and all the things you all donated!! I know this is will be a wonderful surprise for our troops!! I will keep you all updated when I get word when they get our goodies!! Thanks to each individual who donated!! It was very kind and generous of you!! Also if you have the time please visit at all the business that gave to our cause:

Dreamstar Parties
Renai Photo
Sunnysmile Dental
Hayward Library

Thank you everyone for sharing in this journey with me!! Love you all!! Happy Thanksgiving!!