camp fundraiser

At the end of April, we had our girl's camp fundraiser.  Originally, it was going to be Asian cuisine and karaoke.  As the date approached, the leader in charge of all the food found out that she was going to be out of town.  Since I am not known for my Filipino noodles, I opted to change it to a Fiesta of sorts :)  We needed something cheap since we weren't charging for tickets!  We had a nacho bar, which was actually so delicious.

The young women all showed up 2 hours before the event, and were super helpful in getting everything set up and prepared.  We were actually done in about an hour, which totally surprised me. A lot of the decorations were borrowed from a ward member who recently had a "fiesta" party for their child.  I ordered the rest from Amazon.

Each young woman was asked to contribute something for the "Silent Auction", and contributions included babysitting, tutoring, caricature drawing, guitar lessons, and Kevin's favorite: a personalized song written about you.  He REALLY wanted to win that one because he wanted the young woman to write a song about Brooke.  Well, we won, but we are still waiting to hear the song :)

The girls also brought desserts (or deserts, hahaha) to be auctioned at the end of the night.  This is where we make our money!  Some of the desserts went for $100 or more.  It was nuts, but the ward members were super generous and we made almost $3000 with both the silent and dessert auctions.  We raised enough money to cover the camp fees for all 16 of our girls attending.  Woot-woot :)

We ended the night with two pinatas...one for the kids, one for adults.  We sold tickets throughout the night for $1, and it was fun watching everyone enjoy taking a swing.  I unfortunately didn't take pictures because I was in charge of the blindfold and the bat.

It really was a great night, and I was very proud of the girls and how much they contributed as far as set-up, service items, serving the food, bringing desserts, and cleaning up.  And I was really happy that we were done fundraising, haha, since there was talk of having to do ANOTHER fundraiser if we didn't earn enough.