We have blankets pouring in from all over the Country. This is so amazing to me. A few weeks ago we decided we want to do a special Christmas Drop. We are hoping to have enough blankets to take to one hospital. My sweet friend Karina dropped off 20 blankets several weeks ago. And they are beautiful!!! Then another darling woman that comes into the salon I work at in Highland dropped off 5 blankets as well. One is quilted. They are beautiful. My Aunt and her choir group are working on more blankets and one of the boys in their group is hoping to be able to do his Eagle Project with us. I am super excited about that. I have 8 brothers all who are Eagle scouts so we are HUGE fans of scouting. If anyone else out there is looking for an Eagle Project and their "boards" will approve this please feel free to do so ;)!
I have a friend who said that there are many quilting and sewing groups out there and she thought it would be fun to send out a challenge to see who could make and donate the most blankets before our next drop (not the Christmas drop) we thought maybe a local fabric store might want to get in on the fun and donate a gift card for the winning group. We want to throw this out there first off to see if anyone is interested. If you are please e-mail us at jjhaag5@yahoo.com and in the subject line put something about blanket drop challenge so we don't delete you because we don't recognize your name :)
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sorting of the Blankets
It's been a while since I have been on my blogs. SOOO.... I forgot that I'm supposed to load the last pictures first. Sorry about that. Anyway, my mom and sister came over the weekend before delivery and we sorted out all the blankets into their like sizes and then labeled boxes for each hospital and how many blankets they said they could use/needed and filled the boxes with a variety of sizes so that one hospital wouldn't get all the same size of blanket. It took a lot of work and my little sister Brooke used this as one of her value projects for Young Women's. She did a fantastic job.
We lined up the boxes and then loaded them into my mom's van according to which boxes were being delivered first and which ones would be last.
Piles and piles of blankets!
This is my little sister Brooke with two of my kids and me! We are in my MIL living room that is full of boxes of blankets!!
We lined up the boxes and then loaded them into my mom's van according to which boxes were being delivered first and which ones would be last.
Piles and piles of blankets!
This is my little sister Brooke with two of my kids and me! We are in my MIL living room that is full of boxes of blankets!!
Donated Blankets
All of these pictures are of blankets people donated before our 1st Drop in October this year. We are so grateful for all who helped us not only with making blankets but donating material, bags, thread and other things. We have seriously been SO BLESSED!!! 1400 blankets for our first drop and more blankets are continuing to pour in.
The Mountainville 5th ward Beehives group (that's my ward) made and donated these blankets.
This blanket was donated from a family in PA! I am amazed how many of these blankets were donated by families who have lost a baby. It was so touching and very healing.
These are some of the rag blankets we made out of the left over scraps from blankets that were being made. Seriously save your scraps we made over 50 blankets from scraps. I lost count after 50.
These are some (and I mean a very few) of the blankets that were donated from my Aunt Pam and her choir group and ward. These blankets are also the same type of blankets that my mom and grandma made out of donated material from my Aunt Dorene and cousin Dina. We mentioned that our computer crashed and so we have lost most of the blanket pictures.
These blankets were donated by my SIL Brooke.
The Mountainville 5th ward Beehives group (that's my ward) made and donated these blankets.
This blanket was donated from a family in PA! I am amazed how many of these blankets were donated by families who have lost a baby. It was so touching and very healing.
These are some of the rag blankets we made out of the left over scraps from blankets that were being made. Seriously save your scraps we made over 50 blankets from scraps. I lost count after 50.
These are some (and I mean a very few) of the blankets that were donated from my Aunt Pam and her choir group and ward. These blankets are also the same type of blankets that my mom and grandma made out of donated material from my Aunt Dorene and cousin Dina. We mentioned that our computer crashed and so we have lost most of the blanket pictures.
These blankets were donated by my SIL Brooke.
Blanket Drop October 2011
And this was Jordan Valley/ Pioneer Valley hospitals. They were the last hopsital on our drop that day. We did go to Alta View Hospital but forgot to take a picture and the lady was at a funeral so that didn't help but they did get the blankets. And a few days later we dropped blankets by American Fork Hospital too. All-in-all we dropped off 1400 blankets that day (which was October 17, 2011)
This was at the new IMC hospital in Murray! They gave my kids treats and then let them see the die casts of preemie baby hands and feet. That was super sweet for my kids to have something tangible to refer to for their brother.
SL Regional
University Hospital!!
This was the drop at LDS Hospital. The woman in the purple we figured out was one of my nurses when Emma was born :)!!
Lakeview hospital!!
Ogden Regional with Sister Stephanie. She was amazing and gave my kids treats and teddy bears!
These are pictures from the hospitals we took blankets too.
We went to Davis Hospital first. My good friend Diane (who is next to me in yellow) works there. They were so appreciative and so much fun to drop the blankets off too. We all had teary eyes. It was great!! I forgot to space so the top two pictures are the second hospital we went too McKay Dee in Ogden. They were awesome as well.
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