After a quick shoot with a couple of my models yesterday afternoon, Jodi and I headed to Belton, MO to join others from our offroad club to sort, package and load thousands of toys for the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots drive.  When we arrived, it was amazing how many toys were there, collected from toy drives and the boxes you see put out at retail stores to what was purchased by the Marines with cash donations.  They had just purchased $32,000 worth of toys that day!

We started with unloading a box truck that was jammed full and then we started counting and sorting by age group and gender.  From there, we bagged them up and loaded them in storage pods which would be delivered to one of 140 organizations the Marines give to.  In the course of three hours, we accomplished what the goal was for the evening and some.  It was a lot of work but it was fun and rewarding too.

My Jeep now has King bump stops installed on the front and they are working on a couple other things for me while it is there.  I'll get it back next Monday probably and we will give it a good test on New Year's Day at Tuttle.