The Food Bank

Keenan and I are LITERALLY* the most blessed people on the planet.

*#ParksandRec

So, as you know, we opted to do a food drive for the Utah Food Bank instead of traditional wedding gifts for our "big day", and it turned out so great!

We got SO MUCH FOOD from all of you! It was amazing!!!!

Seriously. Check out that stuff. And it was GOOD stuff too! What a generous community, family, and friend support we have. It was really a wonderful experience to get to deliver it to the Utah Food Bank. And it was a workout, because we got SO MUCH FOOD! We got some great heavy lifting in.

Yup. Took the whole truck.

We gave it to the Bountiful Food Pantry, which is a local branch of the Utah Food Bank, on April 11.

Now, after all that lifting, we were dying to know just how much food was collected.

We filled an entire crate-thingy.

The crate-thingy had a name... but I don't remember it.

850 pounds. 

HOLY TOLEDO!!!!
Who is the biggest loser now?????

The energetic young man in the blue plaid was MOST helpful.

The young boy (blue plaid) had to try to push the crate onto the scale about 10 times ... I couldn't help but think: "RAMMING SPEED!!!" every time he got his running start. 

Ramming speed!

Despite his best pubescent efforts, even with our mature muscular support, it ended up being insufficient. We had to unload the crate and try it again in smaller pieces. 

Finally on the scale.

After we weighed all the food, 850 pounds later, we left feeling incredibly lucky, blessed, and emotionally overwhelmed to have participated in this great drive with all of you. Valued at $1.70/pound, 850 pounds represents about $1,500 worth of food. 

$1,500 = WOW!!!!

Think of what that will mean to so many families, to so many kids whose parents can't feed them, to parents who are worried about feeding their kids, to the poor, the downtrodden, the unlucky... Thank you for contributing to this small effort to make their lives a bit easier, to help them know that they are not alone in this world, to reassure them that their neighbor does care and love them! The workers at the food bank were thrilled. 

We really enjoyed this experience, and we hope you did too.

#ActuallyBothLookingAtTheCamera
We love you all, dearly!

May the fourth be with you!!!!

Speaking of excellent dates... Remember April 25th a few weeks ago?

Photo cred: Mr. Keenan Price. 

Our every-single-day-SnapChat-streak is to be admired.

Not too hot... not too cold... all you need IS AN ASTRONAUT SUIT!!!!

What was this SNOW IN APRIL??

The funniest part of this date is that it was our original wedding date... but then we didn't want to wait that long... so we didn't! And thank heavens. Can you imagine? 

But snow and dates and Yoda aside... happy food bank donations.