Our busy lives in the past two weeks

The past two weeks the Johnstown Albertson clan has had several unique activity opportunities! Last Saturday we all laid sod (6500 sq. ft) at some friends' house. Last Sunday we went to the Life Chain. (You can read about that in Dad's post.) This week on Tuesday we went on a free day to the zoo. On Thursday we had a Johnstown-Milliken Home Schoolers' field trip on the Poudre Trail. We had devised a scavenger hunt with pictures from our previous trip to the Poudre Trail (read Jeffrey's post about the Poudre Trail) for everyone who came so they could look for different animals and vegetation.

These are two pictures of part of the J-M homeschoolers on the Poudre Trail. If you want an electronic copy to save or print, just email us and we'll send it to you!

Yesterday we helped at our food co-op distribution. We enjoyed helping at the co-op very much. It is fun to work together. The lady, Claire R., that runs the co-op is very organized and that makes the process flow well.
This is what we did last night:
1. Starting at 4:00 pm working with other volunteers, we unloaded the miscellaneous food items off the many pallets and piled them on the floor or tables according to item. (Taped on the floor and walls were orange paper signs with the code, quantity, and name of each item listed.) There was ~ 45,000 lbs. of food. It was mostly 25-50 lb. bags, boxes, and pails of bulk food items.
2. We labeled each item with pink coded stickers.
3. For supper, Chipotle restaurant donated food for free and it was yummy.
4. Working in teams we made piles filling each individual order. One person would be the scribe/sender and the others in that group would be the runners/carriers. By the time we left at 8:30 pm, almost all of the orders were filled.

This is a picture of us beside a large order. This was when we were getting ready to leave last night. Rowen, Tim, and Brenda worked too, but are not shown in this picture.