The Mighty EAGLE!

An Eagle Project is quite a beast to take on!! 

Luckily Parker was one of those rare kids who was independently motivated, (with occasional reminders from mom and dad..:).  He really wanted to help the people in Japan following their tsunami, since we've been lucky to get to know a couple Japanese students, but the Church Humanitarian Center doesn't directly ship supplies to Japan.  After touring the inspiring Humanitarian Center, Parker turned to me and said, "I don't care where our donations go, anywhere the Lord needs them is fine by me."  He decided to hold a yard sale, and use the proceeds to buy school kit supplies.  He had a goal of 50 kits, but ended up making 137 kits due to the generous donations of our ward members, and of the sucessful yard sale.  It was a great experience for our whole family!

We set up all the yard sale items the day before, so Parker decided to sleep outside to protect the stuff.

We had soooo much stuff come in, it barely fit on our driveway!

The bench the kids are sitting in, was the hot item!  We had bought it from the old Manila church that had been sold.  We realized the bench wasn't what we wanted in our basement, and EVERYONE wanted it!  We should have charged more for it...who knew??? 

All the Teachers came over and helped assemble the kits in our basement.  Many hands make light work for sure!

We delivered all of our supplies to the Humanitarian Center and felt a great sense of accomplishment..and exhaustion! Parker was barely 14 yrs. old when he completed everything, so proud of a kid so young!

At the end of October, Parker had his Board of Review, and passed with flying colors!  Thank goodness, because after all of that work, Karl and I may have gone balistic!

Now to plan a Court of Honor in January!