Adopt-A-Family

Yes I know I'm blogging out of order, but I didn't realize I had these pictures in order to do a blog about it. There is a FANTASTIC organization for military families called Operation Homefront. They have a lot of different ways that they help our service members and their families from emergency flights for the death of an immediate family to instructional classes. One of the big things they do every year at Christmas is a program called Adopt-A-Family where you can apply to be adopted by a family or company in the area and they provide presents for the kids for Christmas. This was the 2nd year we participated (thank you navy for messing up our paychecks) and the group that adopted us (which was a department of homeland security) SPOILED the kids. The jammies they have on were bought by one of the people from the office that adopted us and there were a TON more presents which included some stuffed animals, a neat wagon that had building blocks for Rylan, a really fun game called Fix The Mix for Mackenzie which is teaching her how to hear something and remember the order it was told to her and she has to figure out how to put it back in that order. I think those were the FAVORITE gifts of Christmas this year. We were blessed beyond words by this company and hope that this next year we can be financially set to be able to adopt a family this year instead of being adopted.