PJ Rolling/Packing Party

Delta Airlines also donated tons of world maps and pencils for the kids at the Vinh Quang Primary School:

THANKS DELTA!!! In fact, we have had so many donations pour in, that we had our own personal packing party... in our pj's of course!

In order to get as many items in our suitcases as possible, we rolled all of our shirt donations, so that more would fit. This is a tried and true ancient packing secret learned many trips ago...

Ashton says he "perfected" his technique... and that HIS technique was far superior to MY technique. Of course, always up to a challenge, I told him to Bring.It.On!

Okay, you be the judge... Ashton's roll is at the top and my roll is at the bottom (with his little finger pointing at it). The comments section on this blog is open, so please feel free to comment with ridcule and laughter:

Then, came in our back up help:

Look at how serious she is:

Such prideful workmanship:

And THEN, a little thief ran in and tried to take off with our hard work:

Finally, we got some control over our rolling/packing party and ended up with at least 3 boxes that I will ship to Catalyst in MN since I can't get it all in our suitcases without severely going over our baggage allowance. Their packing party is the weekend after next and hopefully they can get our excess into their baggage allowance:

Chuc Mung Nam Moi

Happy Lunar New Year... it is the Year of the Tiger!

The girls didn't want to wear their Ao Dai's for Tet this year... go figure. But they looked so awesome in their Chinese dresses that it didn't even matter:

Here, my baby is riding her horse side saddle... so she will be more "lady-like":

Delta Airlines

THANK YOU DELTA AIRLINES !!!

Delta provided over three hundred shirts for the 2010 VN Aid Expedition. Here is Ashton making snow angels in them:





And here are our Flat Stanley's (uhm, the red-headed one is mine... and the blue/black haired one is Ashton's). They are very excited to be included in Delta's Force for Global Good:

Vinh Quang School Kids

Here are the kids we are going to help:

Girl Scout Troop 14044 - Cumming, GA, USA

A big shout out to Girl Scout Troop 14044 from Cumming, GA (belonging to the North Forsyth County Service Unit and the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Council)!

They have partnered with the Catalyst Foundation for the 2010 Vietnam Aid Expedition.

A HUGE thanks to:

1st Grade Daisies: Molly, Ashley, Mary, Shannon , Brooke
2nd Grade Brownies: Katie, Julianne, Madison
3rd Grade Brownies: Rachel
4th Grade Juniors: Elena

and their fearless leader Susan Koblasz and co-leader Jennifer!!!!

The GS girls are currently working on their fabulous artwork that Ashton and I will be taking to the children at:

Vinh Quang Primary School
Vinh Quang Ward, Rach Gia City
Kien Giang Province Vietnam

They have also selected Vietnam to be their country of choice for their "Thinking Day" event. I can't wait to post some pictures of their event! And last but not least, we will be taking some GS cookies to the children at the school. I have heard that Samoa's are their favorites and we can't wait to see their faces when they get to eat some of the now WORLD famous Girl Scout cookies.

Colorado Rocks!!!

My long time friend (we were together from Florida to North Carolina... until she moved on to Colorado) Amy, and her daughter Morgan sent me a HUGE envelope of the most AWESOME artwork. Here are some of my favs:

And of course... especially this one!

Thanks Amy and Morgan... you guys are the best!