I thought it would be fun to post the photo of all the packages of cards I received . This is what the pile looked like  up to May 1st ..  May 1st in the evening  My Mom,  Jessie and myself  dumped every single card in the middle of my living room floor ..  Have  you ever  noticed how much easier it is to  throw things on the floor  and  what a job it is to pick them up Case in point  Have you ever played 52 pick up .. OH my   It took maybe 45 Min’s tops to place all cards on the floor  and  over 5 hours to pick  up and package them all up .  we all 3 were laughing so hard at  what we had  just did ..  The thoughts of seeing my living  room  carpet again was  so far out of reach  it made us all laugh  like crazy.. and of course  My mom and Jessie both  made it perfectly  clear it was all my idea ..Hee! Hee!

I have had a few gals email and  ask to see the boxes all ready to go .. here they are  well at least 1/2 of them are ready to go I am still short  a ton of envelopes..  But in time  they will all be sent  out. I sent out 3 flat rate boxes  yesterday  and  each of them  weighted 7 lbs  each 

  This is a up close photo of those that need envelopes still.. What an awesome sight to see  all these beautiful cards  sitting in my home  I am sooo excited to hear all the stories  about our troops that receive these cards.

Ok  a few more fun facts before we get to the Grand total  of cards  and the winner of the  Operation Glitter Drop blog candy   ..

1. If you laid  each of the  cards out touching  top to bottom of each other it would  stretch the length of 113 Trucks bumper to bumper

2. If  you  wrapped  every one of the cards around a baseball diamond  it would go around it over 5 1/4  times …Pretty amazing huh?

Ok are you ready   drum roll please …….

Grand total for  the amount of cards we received  from April 9th to May 1, 2007 is….. 4,119 cards

   No one   picked the co rrect number  so the closest  without going over goes to Toni  Perez  Melissa  Ferr WHOOO HOOO  way to go girlie .. she  posted her amount of 3,702   4,018 Yahoo  Melissa please email me your  snail mail address and I will get these  goodies out to you  by Monday .. Thank you all  from the bottom of my heart .. you all are  the  bestest… I will keep you posted on all the stories my hubby passes on to me and hopefully  alot of photos  of those happy faces .

By the way speaking of photos and my hubby  he sent me  a few photos via email  Thursday night   and  here they are ..  One is of him  and the other one is of his bed he made  for himself ..

Good thing he   has  alot of experience  with JESSIE"S BED we made awhile ago HUH?  I am sure the wood  over there was  nothing like home  depot But it looks fabulous and  it sure beats a cot  thats for sure HUH?  and this is what his tent looks like  from the outside .. He shares this tent with 7 other men.  Look they have carrier  for heating and cooling over there ..

and here is a drive by for you.. I can only imagine how loud this  tank is .. This is right outside his tent  door. 

Thanks again for everything  girls .. I will never forget your  kindness  and out pour of love you all showed  for our troops.. 

Until tomorrow .. Happy Stampin!!