Yesterday we skipped church to put in some EDS hours with the Salvation Army.  As you know from my previous post, it wasn’t an emergency situation, but a good way for us to break in our EDS legs and do a good deed!

We arrived at Buckley Air Force Base (Aurora, CO – 45 minutes SE from from our house) around 10:30am and proceeded to help prepare food.  Noah and I started washing veggies and fruits for platters, then I got pulled away to make fruit dip.  Once those were done, it was back to helping prepare the veggies.

There were about 10 EDS volunteers/SA employees there.  The meal was layed out buffet style and included fruit/veggie platters, sandwiches, meatballs, scallops, hot wings, spinach pastry things and of course dessert.  We served the meal for about 125 family members of the 140th Air National Guard, which is currently touring in Balad, Iraq.

Santa & Mrs. Claus also came to give all the children presents.  We also learned that the National Guard has a partnership with the Colorado Rockies, where each family that has someone overseas during the holidays gets a check for $400!  That’s awesome!  Also, an American Legion post had donated 25 turkeys to be raffled off to the families!

It’s so great to see a community pull together to support our troops and their families here at home.

Despite how tired our feet were by the time everything was cleaned up, it was a great experience that we’re both glad we had the chance to participate!