Doing Awesome Things in Our Community

 Bringing blankets and kits to the American Red Cross and to Catholic Community Services

 We brought lots of smiles to lots of people

Thanks so much to everyone who attended our project in March!

If you weren't able to make it, we hope to see you on
Saturday, April 21 at 9:00 am.

Hygiene kits, baby kits, and blankets will be delivered soon to those in need.

We have 50 blankets that you helped sew and tie that will be going to the American Red Cross.

They use blankets in time of emergency.

About 100 hygiene kits will be delivered along with 80 baby kits (that you assembled) to Catholic Community Services in down town Salt Lake City.

Catholic Community Services helps immigrant families as well as low income and homeless members of the community.

We are so happy to have your help every month.

Thanks for spending some time serving those in need.

We can do great things when we work together!

Serving with smiles

DON'T BE A GRINCH

“You don't need to be an agent to join this organization!”-Hoops & Yoyo

"WE LOOOOVE saving the world!"-CHARITY (the cutest baby on earth)

Serving with smiles is inviting you to join with them in helping the world! Find a location near you, and start saving the world.

2012 Resolution

Make a resolution this year to make it out to our projects more often! Our numbers have dwindled a bit. Help us out and come have a great time with us too!

Our next project is Saturday Jan. 21, at 9am.

Summer's over and time to get back to Serving!

Hope you all had a great Summer!
Our next project is coming up and we hope you're all excited to get back to serving with us! In the meantime, take advantage of all those back to school supply deals out there to bring to donate at our next project. We'll use those for school kits later for kids that need our help.

See you September 17th!

March Project

We did so well this week! Congrats to everyone! We have a new project director. We would love to thank her! The new bead frogs are a hit but are a little complicated! Last time I think we had some new visitors! We learned more about the places our stuff goes. It was so touching to see people we had made happy. Retiring elders, homeless families, Ethiopian orphans, and so many more. We made so much for them this week! I'm so happy for all the people we get to help. We made 3 fuzzy warm fleece blankets, 3 cute bead frogs, 2 fierce bead geckos, 19 colorful pictures, 16 fuzzy scarves, 31 adorable bracelets, and 60 baby kits. The baby kits were our special projects. We made them for babies who are born needing supplies to be taken care of with. We put in lots of stuff like baby powder, 2 fuzzy towels, soap, etc. (for each bag). It was happy to think of all the babies that would get help! I hope everyone can come next time (the sidebar has our next date). Please come and help your fellow friends with a wondrous work to save the world, a couple people at a time!

Serving With Smiles goes to Ethiopia!

Hello! My name is Amanda, and I am a guest blogger today on the SWS Blog. We had another great Serving With Smiles project this last Saturday. Lots of great kids showed up and lots of great things were accomplished. Thanks everyone! Hope to see you next time around!
I wanted to come on here and tell you a little bit about my experience taking the Serving With Smiles bracelets and Geckos to Ethiopia just a few weeks ago. My husband I traveled to Addis Ababa (that's the capital city of Ethiopia,) to appear in court for the finalization of our adoption of two beautiful children there.
We took with us on our trip lots of bracelets and geckos that our sweet Serving with Smiles children made here in Saratoga Springs Utah. We were able to deliver them to 3 different orphanages where the children absolutely loved them! They were thrilled!
I can't post pictures of the full faces of orphans that are not my own children here, so I've only included these two photos so you can get a little bit of an idea.
That's our son in this photo below! See how happy this gecko made him?! He's a serious boy, so it was so nice to see this nice big smile out of him! :)
We thought the children there would like these bracelets and geckos, but we didn't know that they were gonna go nuts over them! It made them so happy!!! What surprised us even more, is that the boys liked the bracelets too. The girls liked the geckos too. The adults all wanted bracelets! They wanted all the babies to have bracelets. These were a hit!

I will tell you a little story I like to call
"The miracle of the Serving With Smiles Bracelets."
Here's how it goes in a nutshell...
We take over two large ziplock bags with SWS bracelets and geckos in them. We think we need to be careful and ration these out carefully there in Ethiopia. We visit 3 orphanages and find that everyone, and we mean everyone in those orphanages want a bracelet! We don't have the heart to turn anyone down at all. So we give them all out. Guess what? Still there are bracelets left!
We decide we have enough left over to give some out to children on the streets. We do that for a few days. Guess what? STILL bracelets left over!
Finally, the last day we are left with a bag that is still about half way full of bracelets! How did this happen?!
We are getting ready to head to the airport. We give out bracelets to all the children we see around us on the street. No kids left. Still about 12 bracelets!
Suddenly a man honks his horn to get our attention. He hops out of his truck. He had watched us giving these out and was hoping he could get one too. We give him the rest of the bag and encounter no more children. We like to imagine him taking those home to his family who probably loved them. What a funny story hu?

Thanks for all your work you little humanitarians! You made lots and lots and lots of Ethiopians happy!

When we go back to Ethiopia in about a month, we'll be bringing your hygeine kits you made. Thanks so much! You're gonna make a lot more smiles with all that serving you have done. We really appreciate you!