Make A Difference Day

Almost one year ago some dear friends lost their 8 year old son in a tragic car accident. The are amazing people with amazing testimonies of where their son Caleb has gone. As the year mark has approached the decided they wanted to do something good on that day. With their permission I am sharing a bit of what they would like to see happen.

"We are requesting your help in our 1st Annual Make a Difference Day on Aug 24-25. Our Goal to is to get as many people as we can to help make this Tragic, unfun day; into a purpose and reason to be happy. By making a difference with us, as we make memories with Caleb on his Angel Date. With him serving and working hard on the other side of the veil, this is our chance to help in his great efforts to build and strengthen Zion here. We would love for you to share your accomplishments on how you were able to "Make a Difference," on here on Caleb's blog." (click it for the link).

So I am inviting those who read our blog to join us in helping them with their 1st Annual Make a Difference Day. It doesn't take much a few ideas they offer on Caleb's blog are Give someone the benefit of the doubt, Smile when you get cut off in traffic instead of cursing, Let someone go in front of you in the line, Pay for someones meal behind you in line, and holding the door open for someone.

I look forward to reading on Caleb's blog what you did to make a difference.

End of Summer Fun

Summer Vacation is officially coming to an end for us. School starts back up on Wednesday the 11th. I had to throw in a couple last videos and pictures of our last few days of freedom before kids are back off to school

Today the it was 97 with a heat index of 115. The boys came up with an idea to put the kiddy pool on the trampoline, put some water in it and do flips and jump in it. Whatever keeps you cool I guess.

Baseball

Brad up to Bat

Roosevelt's

White Sox

Kyle swinging the bat

Brad and Kyle both played baseball this summer. Joe coached both teams. He is such a great coach! The boys loved having their Dad coach and the parents all loved how Joe coached the teams. This entry wasn't really suppose to be all about Joe, oops!

Brad's team was the Roosevelt's and Kyle's team was the White Sox. By the end of the season all the players could hit from a pitched ball, pitched by none other than Coach Joe. Some of the games were so hot! For the most part we lucked out though and had fairly cool summer weather during the games. Pictures were taken by Grandpa Porter.

Grandma and Grandpa Porter Come to Visit

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At the end of July Dave and LeeAnn came to visit. We were all so excited to have Grandpa and Grandma Porter come to visit. Of course we did a little fishing. We met up with Tim and Amanda's family and Dave and LeeAnn during the middle of the week to do some fishing and to take them home to visit with us, we split the week with Tim and Amanda, they took the first half and we took the second half. On Thursday, we went down to Fontenelle Forest for a fun walk around some trails down there. Friday was my birthday and so went mini golfing, Dave and LeeAnn bought me a Dairy Queen cake (YUMMY!) and took us all out to Chucky Cheese for dinner and games. Saturday we had baseball games for our boys. Sunday we went down to an exhibit that it is at the Winter Quarters Trail Center that Images of Jesus Christ life. It was beautiful and I highly recommend people taking the time to go down and see it. Our evenings were filled with games. We were so glad to have them come visit and hope they will come again soon.