Aha!!

Trying my hand at fundraising, by going where

my target audience is..

We have a bar in town that draws a fairly good

sized bike crowd.

I have less than a few days to throw together

a fundraising event, but by gosh!

I think this one should work out well.  : ).

I am going to have a hot rod / bike

car show instead of a poker run.

 

We will suggest a $2.00 donation to enter for

prizes, and will use a Harley Davidson gift basket

as the top prize..  We will also have our gift certificates

that we have left over from our auction as the lower

prizes.  We can have a raffle for our coffee themed

pictures and table runner, as well as a chip and dip basket,

another coffee basket and a wine bottle basket.

Included in all of this fun, we will also have a 50/50 raffle

where the winning ticket gets half of the money raised during that

event.  People love those, because the more people buy in,

the more they can win.

 

We will also have people vote, donating $1.00 for each

vote they make, and we will have a Best in Show, shiniest,

loudest and Most Improved with After Market Merchandise

categories..

 

There are at least four other biker bars in the city where I can

put up flyers, and it will be over in time for them to go to their regular

bars that evening..

 

I'm hoping that this one works better than my last!

Yikes!!

Bingo.. Is Done..

One of our best raffle draws..

One of my co-workers is a phenomenal photographer,

and is currently taking college photography classes.

All in all, we made over $700 between the Bingo games,

the raffle and the bake sale (yummy!!).

They auctioned off some items as well.

All of it helped to make a very, very, very

successful evening!  Thanks to everyone involved!

Auctions, Grape Stomps and Puppies, Oh My!

Alrighty then.  Looks like I went a little MIA the past couple days.  Not sure what happened when I posted my last entry, but it was actually entered on the 20th.  Blogger seems to have some wacky versions of dates and times.  I adjusted the date on the last one.  Lol.  However, since that time, it's been cah-razy around here.

 

I'm thinkin we are pretty much going back to the brainstorming drawing board for fundraising ideas.  The auction, while we have gotten a few bids, hasn't been able to catch fire like I had hoped it would, but more or less had a few sparks of hope here and there. 

 

We went to the Fence Stile Vineyard & Winery and took donations and raffled off the great BBQ basket from BBQ Fans in Claycomo, MO.  We made some money there, and for both days being small groups, we made an astounding amount of money!  : )..  The winner of our raffle was one of the Mizzou Tiger fans who showed up on a tour bus yesterday.  Lol.  That was an awesome sight!  Ya don't see that at a vineyard very often.  Go Mizzou!  If only the Tigers fared so well.  Ummmm.  Yeah..   They didn't.  Welcome to the SEC football conference.  I'm thinking, it's going to take a while for us to get the hang of playing with the big schools.  We'll get there, it may just take some time.

 

 We've got a Bingo game coming up this Wednesday evening in North Kansas City, MO, and will also be holding a raffle there as well.  We will be raffling off a basket full of coffee items, including a bag of Dunkin' Donuts coffee, some Almond Joy creamers, as well as a few other yummy sounding coffee products.  : )..  I'm really betting that this will be a huge step towards our fundraising goal.

 

And speaking of time, we are still coming up with ideas on how we can spend it.  We are organizing a hot rod / motorcycle cruise, tentatively set for Saturday, October 13th.  It's going to start at one of the local restaurants, then hit one of our local wineries, another restaurant / grill, two more wineries, and finally end up at another bar & grill.  Worth Harley Davidson has said they would give us a gift basket one week before our cruise, so that should be a huge draw for that night.

 

Right now, we should have a little more than $300 raised for Tyrone's fund.  He is still hanging in there.  He actually left the hospice house and stayed a couple nights at his brother's house, before requesting to go back to the hospital early this morning.  He is currently back in the North Kansas City Hospice House.  I spent some time last weekend checking out how much we thought we needed, and came up with around $2500.  It's going to be an uphill battle for a bit, but by gosh!  We are determined to get there.  Even if the road is rocky, crazy and chaotic.  We'll get there!

 

Thanks to everyone who has supported us!!! Every bit of help gets us that much closer!!!

It is truly appreciated!!

 

And by the way, if you EVER get a chance to stomp some grapes??  You should jump on that chance!  : )..  Shriti from Fence Stile Vineyard & Winery said that it's the best pedicure you will ever have.  I totally agree!  My feet tingled after the stomp.  : ).. 

 

 Lucy?  Is that you?  You got some

'splainin to doooo!  : )..

 Rub a dub, dub, that's 14 feet in a tub!

 My co-worker and her daughter

grape stompin to support us!

 "Is that a BUS?!"

Yup!  It's our Mizzou fans tour bus,

and one of them was our BBQ Basket winner!

Winner, winner, BBQ Dinner Winner!

 This is Sir Fergus Ozborn McDougall's

(surprise!!) baby brother who is all of 13 weeks

old.  He was soooo cute, it alllmost made

me want to take him home with me!!

Whooo could resist a happy faced little puppy

like that?  I almost couldn't!

We took Fergus and stopped by his Momma Judy's

after the Grape Stomp because she lives a hop, skip

and a jump from where we were.

Sir Fergus Ozborn McDougall getting some

visiting time with his daddy Mack and his momma

ChiChi yesterday.  : )..  Mack seemed glad to see him,

while ChiChi took a few minutes of barking to finally warm

up to his presence.  Lol.  She's a feisty one!  I see

where he gets it now!  Ack!  Lol.

 

I was sooo tired the past couple days that I missed

stopping by here.  Whew!  I conked out like someone hit

me in the head with a rock last night.  I'm hopin I can sleep

like that again tonight!  : )..  Back to work tomorrow!

 

 

 

Eureka!! Aha!! I got it now!! : )..

Hi. This is me.  I'm a jester.  I'm silly.  I like to make people laugh.  I like to cheer people up. I want people to be happy.  I want world peace.  Lol.  I sound like a Mrs. Universe contestant.



 However, here lately, I've felt like a complete and utter failure.  I've done a fairly good job procuring some items for auction to support my friend's attempt to raise funds to cover final costs of their fiancée who has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer.  

These are the crickets that I hear when I tried posting the online auction last week.

 Chirp, $5 bid on the flickering skull, awesome!  We have our first bid!  Chirp.  Chirp.  Chirp.  Silence.  Whoa.  I know it's supposed to be a silent auction, but not that silent!  Yikes! This is me (not really, it's someone else) freaking out Saturday afternoon!  

Maybe we should pull the items offline and do a raffle, or a regular auction in front of a group of people...  Here's me trying to also generate support for a car warsh (yup, lol, I know) Saturday.

  Chirp!  Chirp!  Chirp!  Our supporters out of state reposted my fb car warsh posts.  

My in town fb friends?  .....  .....  Nuttin.  Not even a chirp.

  

Ack!  I even said I would toss in prizes to the first person who sent us a car to warsh.  .... .... Nuttin.  

 

I felt hopeless.  I felt like I failed.  I felt like we would never, ever, ever raise any money for Tyrone.  Nuttin.  Nada.  

 

I have the support of Fence Stile Vineyard and Winery and Ladoga Ridge as well as a lot of local businesses.  

 

Chirp!  Email from my coworker wanting to bid on items!  Yay!  There might be hope!  Posted items again.  Chirp.  .....  $5 bid on my Cici's coupons.  There might be hope.  .... .... .... Nuttin.  

Failure? I felt like one.  

 

Here were my fb friends who looked at me like I had grown a third eye.  Lol.  

Monday rolled around and I trudged back to work.  Yeah, my online auction is never going to work.  I will never be able to get enough support to get bids.

Another coworker wanted to look online over the weekend but looked when our items were offline.  Chirp!  There's hope again?  Yay!  Chirp. ... ....

 

It's Thursday morning.  The abject failure that I have felt has crept back again and been smothering me.  Choking me.  I've posted about potato chips and music. I hadn't even had the heart to post anything that might let people see how big of a failure I am. Sigh.  ... .... ....  

 

CHIRP!  Aha!  Epiphany!  I'm going about this all wrong.

I got it figured out.  I'm about to kick this auction's hind end in major gear.

I'm about to out this fund raising in its place.  Aha!

Instead of just trying fb and on here, I'm about to make some signs to put in grocery stores, libraries, store fronts, etc.  this town needs to know that we are raising some money and that we've got some items for them in return.

Aha!  I can do this!  I've got paper and some colored markers on hand!

Aha!  We can do this!  No more crickets!  I'm kicking them back outside.  Shoo little crickets.  We've got work to do.  My third eye's brain just kicked in!

Aha!  Failure?  It's no longer in my vocabulary!  Shoo failure!  It's no longer an option!

It's auction and raffle time in Cowtown!

 

Woot!  Eureka!  Let's get the party started!!!  Woot, woot!

Feeling a little easier..

We have some new options for the auction.  Might promote it on a few of the online swap shops around this area, as well as possibly having a few raffles at some local businesses.  Also found out that one of my former co-workers runs a business that might be able to help out and take payments, instead of having to have a huge lump sum up front.  Put the auction items back online.  We are going to let the auction run for one whole week.  This is the link if anyone is interested..

 

Alrighty.  Sink or swim.  It's up and running again.  It's been a learning curve, and since we have more options, I think it will turn out ok.

One More Day..

Our first attempt at an online, silent auction begins tomorrow afternoon.  It's on like Donkey Kong around 5pm Central Standard Time.  Please, keep us in mind if you are reading this, and wish us well.  Not sure how well it will go, but I'm hoping that it is going to be great.  I am going to do some more work on the donations tomorrow, they are still trickling in.  My boss has even gotten in on the hunt for us, he is going to contact some of his friends to see if their businesses can put something in for us.  We truly appreciate everyone's support and well wishes.  It's been a crazy week, but it's going to be an even crazier weekend.

 

For anyone that is reading these posts, here is the link to the facebook site for Tyrone.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/Benefits4Tyrone.

This page is to help organize and promote our fundraising events.  There will be a lot of them!

 

Alrighty..  Gotta do some more work..

Draggin..

I'm still trying to catch up on sleep, but still can't get to sleep at night until it's too late to get a good night's rest.  I'm wide awake when I should be laying down and shutting my eyes.  I was soo tired the other day, I left a voicemail for someone requesting a donation and don't think that I ever left my phone number.  Yikes.  Not that I don't remember who it was, and can't call them back.  In fact, after hearing news that our friend may have less than a week left, I might just kick things in higher gear and start calling all the big wigs myself.  : (..

 

We need to come up with at least $1800 for a deposit for his final costs.  There is a church who is willing to donate their building for his visitation.  We are going to try and start an online auction this Friday that will run through until Sunday.  This won't be the only auction that we do, because hopefully I have enough donations that will still trickle in to start another one.  Right now, we have a lot of local restaurant certificates, and I am going to go into craft overdrive to put in some non-food items.  Our friends and family that aren't in the Kansas City area will need something to bid on.

 

One of my craft items involves..

 Lemons..

 And another one involves cinnamon..

Which reminds me, I am soooo

addicted to the Oatmeal, Cranberry,

Walnut cookies that they are making at

the cafeteria at work.  Oooh my gosh..

I love oatmeal and raisin cookies,

but lemme tell ya..  I could eat the whole

batch of these cookies and not even bat an eye.

Deeeelishus..

Here's a recipe for one with pecans as well.

Dang.

Now I wanna cookie..

If you give a girl a cookie, she'll

want a glass of milk..

Dang..  Now I want a glass of milk..

And another cookie..

 

I am sooo tired and sleepy..

I am about to crash out for the night, but it was such a productive day, that it's a great thing to be tired and sleepy.  We kicked our donation requests into high gear today, and although there are a few places who are going to either put something together for us, or think about it, we got so many places to donate.  We have so many restaurants that have kicked in gift certificates, one gym, one salon and boutique that donated a really super nice purse, one bowling alley, one barbershop that actually gave us some actual items instead of coupons, etc, one hairstyle place that donated one male and one female cut and one tattoo shop that donated a flashing light skull for Halloween. 

 

It's been such a great day, that I am glad I am sooo tired and sleepy.  It all goes towards the proper burial and last wishes of one of our friends.  He was recently diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer that has aggressively spread to his lungs and liver, and which at this point, has no longer been affected by the aggressive chemo medication that they tried.  At this point and time, they are managing his pain and waiting for him to pass.  He is still hanging in there though.  He doesn't want to give up yet.  We want to get the finances in order so that Tyrone and our friend, his fiancee, Kayla can spend time together, just focusing on each other.

 

I plan to add sooo many craft items to the silent auction, and have several businesses who are going to gather items for us, so I truly believe that we will have a great result.  We will also be hosting a lot of other events as well, so everything should turn out well in the end.  I am sure there will be plenty more long, tiring and weary days ahead, but they will be worth it too.  Whew.  Time to call it a night.

Grape Therapy 4.0

This is how I spent my day yesterday.  : )..  That and finishing laundry.  Trust me, the wine harvest was a lot better than the laundry.  Lol.

 

 Beautiful, lucious Chambourcin grapes,

just hanging around, waiting patiently to be picked..

 The crates that held another 9,000

pounds of harvested grapes..

 A sunny morning harvest this time,

no rain in sight..

Needless to say, I got a little..

crispy?

Lol..  And I got stung again..

Those bees get pretty ornery when we want to

pick their delicious, juicy prizes.  Ouch!
"Bzz! Step away from my grape cluster
and put the pruning shears down! Bzz!"

25 people..

9,000 pounds of grapes..

Not too bad at all.

: )..

 

But the best part of yesterday, was the fact that

it was a wine harvest that occured one year to the

day that one of the owners was having heart surgery.

He has recovered since then.

The grapes that were harvested last year were

sold to another winery.

Fence Stile had one late harvest on November 22nd,

where those who volunteered stuck it out in the frigid

temperatures and huddled inside briefly in front of their

fireplace, sipping mulled wine.

Those grapes were harvested, crushed

and turned into yet another amazing and delicious

wine.  It is called, "Ishq", which is "Love"

in fourteen different languages.

They had to fight hard for the label and the name,

trying to justify why their wine should be called Love.

After a valiant battle, Ishq made it's debut at

the afternoon toast.  It's going to be another one of the

top sellers.

 

Also, I would love to give William and Shriti a hearty,

much deserved, thank you for their support of the Benefits4Tyrone

fund.  They were the first responders to our cause, and have

gone above and beyond with ideas for helping raise funds.

We are truly thankful and grateful for their generosity and support.

 

Silent Auction and Yallapalooza..

Although we didn't get home last night from visiting with friends again until 4:30am, and not getting to sleep until close to 5am, I am up and moving.  Getting ready to take Kayla and stop by as many local businesses around this area as we can, trying to gather as much swag and other silent auction items as we can.  We plan to visit businesses in Claycomo, Liberty and then swing back through North Kansas City.  Each town has a lot of local vendors who will hopefully be willing to help out.

After this morning's work, we had a neighbor give us four tickets to the Yallapalooza concert out in Kansas today.  The show has a couple new country artists, and then has Kix Brooks, Big and Rich and finally Dierks Bentley.  Should be a great way to end the day.  After that?  My sleep might resemble a coma.  I could probably sleep for a week! 

Although!  I am helping out with Fence Stile's grape harvest starting at 8am on Sunday.  : )..  I'll have to sleep and rest up tomorrow evening.  I can do it.  It will allll be worth it though.  Alrighty then!  Let's get this party started!

Missed yesterday.. Whew..

We had friends come up from Hot Springs, AR so we spent the evening and early morning sitting outside on another friend's back porch, enjoying a delicious, light breeze.  We also got to talking with one of our younger friends.  She and her fiancee are going through such a rough time right now.  They had moved from Kansas City to Hot Springs with her mom and step dad a few months ago.  Right before they could start looking for work, Kayla's fiancee, Tyrone started having terrible stomach pains.

After being checked out, he was given the terminal diagnosis of stage four cancer.  His cancer had already spread to his liver and pancreas.  The doctors gave him months to live.  They moved back to KC to be with his friends and siblings.  His parents are already gone, as well as two of his siblings from cancer as well.  Tyrone recently underwent a treatment and came out of it with jaundice.  He is currently in the hospital being treated because his liver and pancreas were both in the process of shutting down, but were caught early enough for treatment to help that.

However, the doctors have dramatically dropped his survival time down to eight or nine weeks.  If that isn't terrible enough, neither Tyrone or Kayla were working, so neither one has any type of benefits.  His medical bills are covered, however, his funeral and burial costs are not.  This is something that has been causing him much undue stress, since he is still trying to fight to live as long as he can.  They are still trying to aggresively treat him, so that it might prolong the end.  He is not ready to give up and let go.

Here in the next few weeks, I will be working with Kayla, her mom Karen and as many of my friends to help raise funds to cover a proper burial for him.  He isn't asking for much, he would like to have a viewing for his friends and family and then cremation.  He wishes to be interred beside his mom in Columbia, MO.  We are going to hold some silent auctions, a possible hotrod cruise to some of our local wineries and possibly a local bingo charity night at one of the bars in North Kansas City.

We stayed up until almost 3:30am brainstorming ideas and talking about what we could do to help.  Tyrone and Kayla are both still so young to be going through this kind of tragedy.  He is 40 and she is still in her early 20's.  She is sticking with him through thick and thin, choosing to stand beside him and fight for his life right along with him.  He has tried to push her away to protect her, but she's not having any of that.  She's in it for the ride.  We want to make the rest of their time together what it should be.  Time together, not worrying about the costs when he is gone.

I have already contacted some of my local wineries, and had already gotten a hearty, "We are in, and will discuss fundraising ideas this weekend" answer in the early morning hours from one of our great wineries.  I have also heard from Debbie at DebbieDoo's Blogging and Blabbing who will allow me to post items that we will be making or putting together for our silent auction and we have also gotten support from one of my wine / margarita mob members to hopefully get the charity Bingo game on.  Thank you for all of our supporters, it is truly and gratefully appreciated.  It means a lot to their family and friends, as well as to Kayla and Tyrone.  Thank you again, and a big thank you to those who will be donating items for our silent auction as well.  Much peace, love and comfort to all involved.

Grape Therapy 2.0.. : )..

Alrighty!  This has been one of the best weekends that I've had in a long, long, long time.  I had a feeling that the wine harvests were going to be fun, but I had no idea just how much fun I was going to have!  Two days of picking grapes, and I'm tellin ya!  I hardly have any stress at all.

My weekend started at Ladoga Ridge Winery in Smithville, MO.  I had such a great time, even though I snipped my fingers three times with the pruning shears!  Yikes!  : )..  They had music playing from their outside speakers, and it was sooo nice and relaxing moving through the rows, collecting grape clusters and filling several buckets.

My weekend ended at Fence Stile Vineyard in Excelsior Springs, MO.  I avoided snipping my fingers (and everyone else's too) this time.  We had some rain that blew through early in the morning, but it stopped by the time we started, leaving us with a gorgeous, cool breeze while we were collecting the grapes.

We started our morning by helping to remove the bird netting, bending down to remove the plastic clips, and then lifting the netting over the tops of the rows of vines.  It was quite the workout.  We uncovered two long, full rows.  Once all of the vines were free, it was time to start snipping and filling buckets.

We made it through eight rows of grapes, but right at the end of the harvest, I was reaching for a grape cluster that was hidden behind some leaves.  It took me a couple seconds to realize what was happening, I heard a humming or buzzing sound and I thought I had hit part of an electric fence!  Lol.  Nope!  I got stung!  Yikes!  I had a small grape cluster in my hand, which went flying across the row while I was hopping around, shaking my other hand.  Ha!  It only hurt for a bit though and although it's a little sore when I try bending my finger, all of the fun I had this weekend was well worth that bee sting!

We ended both days with a lunch, and ended Sunday's harvest with a few bottles of delishus, delishus, delishus wine.  I went to Ladoga Ridge without my wine mob group, but they were present and accounted for at Fence Stile.  There were 30 volunteers picking grapes.  We picked over 5,000 pounds, which averages out to 172 pounds per person.  The grapes we picked will create about 112 cases of wine.  Not a bad days work.  Very therapeutic!  How can I be stressed with a weekend like that?  Umm.  I can't!  : )..

Here are some pics from Fence Stile's harvest.

 Da Seyval Grapes..

 One of da buckets I filled..

 Some of da grapes that were added to the big crates..

 Some of da stems that were leftover from the harvest..
There were a lot more stems, that's only part of the lot..

Da wine mob toast..

Buon cibo!  Buon vino!  Buon amici!

(Good food * Good wine * Good friends)

Next up?  Fence Stile's harvest August 26th..

Guess who is going to be there?  Our wine mob

and a couple other friends!

I can't wait!

If anyone has the chance to join a winery's
grape harvest?  I highly recommend it!  : )..

I'm adding this to DebbieDoo's Newbie party.
Great host!  Great site!  Great participants!
Great idea that she included Newbie grads and diy/crafts as well!

Grape Therapy.. : )..

Had a great time helping harvest grapes at Ladoga Ridge Winery in Smithville, MO this morning.  It started around 8am and I stopped at 11am, getting a nice lunch.  I snipped my fingers a few times, including a pretty good snip on my thumb.  Other than being a little sore and achy, it was soo worth it.  I have found my Calgon moment!  Ahhhh.  So nice.  So relaxing.  It only got up to about 80 degrees while I was there, although I did break a sweat as well.  They had some great music playing on their outdoor speakers while we worked.  They didn't have a lot of people to help, but by gosh, the harvest got done.  : )..  Pretty neat.  Definitely therapeutic!

Ahhh.  Just what the doctor ordered!

Peace and quiet.  And wine.  : )..

Winery Harvesting.. : )..

I'm planning to help a couple of our local wineries with their first grape harvests this weekend.  Ladoga Ridge Winery in Smithville is having their harvest starting at 8am Saturday.

 I plan to join them..

 

And then, Sunday, Fence Stile is having

their first harvest, also starting at 8am.

Again, I plan to join them.  : )..

Soo, I'm thinking, my weekend is starting

to look pretty good!

Not for long!  Lol.

 

Some pics from the ball park..

Volunteered to sell some 50/50 raffle tickets at the KC Royals game last Friday night.  The winning raffle ticket would win half of the money raised before the 4th inning.  The previous group sold enough for their winner to walk away with $2,500.  That sold a whole lot of tickets for me, and I used it as my hook, "the last person won $2,500!"  Errrrr!  People would stop and back up.  Lol.

We had at least 10 ADT reps there, and we were joined by some UPS employees and the Royal's Charity for the game, the Arthritis Foundation.  Armed with two books of 100 tickets each, we all set out to sell tickets.  We sold one ticket for $2, three tickets for $5 and seven for $10.  Dutch helped us out, and he and I both sold one whole 100 ticket book, while one ADT rep sold 200.  All in all, combined, three groups raised over $6,000 and our lucky fan walked away with $3,000.  We raised a full $1,000 more than the last group!  : )..  It was a whole lot of walking and my feet, knees and hips were aching (I wore a pair of tennis shoes that weren't as comfortable because my solid black ones that were cushier, didn't exactly look right, lol.), but it was worth all of the hard work!

The Royals organization gave us a free ticket, which was up in the top balcony and $10 in food vouchers.  Luckily, they were having "buck nights" where their hot dogs and soda were a buck each.  We ended up having a lot of the food vouchers left over, and after having traipsed all over the top level trying to buy a hot dog (to which we would stand in line and then hear, "we're out of hot dogs right now!"), we eventually walked down one level and found a vendor who not only had no line, but who had hot dogs.  The guy who waited on us probably thought I was crazy when I asked him, "do you still have hot dogs?" until I told him we just walked down from the fourth level.  Lol.

We watched about ten minutes of the game, and then decided not to walk back up the ramp to the fourth level to find our seats.  After all that walking, I was done!  Whew!  We decided to head out in the sixth inning, stopped and bought some popcorn (yeah, nothing there was healthy, lol) and then looked for someone to donate the rest of our food vouchers.  We had $6 left, and after looking around for a couple minutes, I found one lady who was trying to feed at least 5 kids who were standing patiently behind her.  I snuck up, tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if she had paid yet, when she said she hadn't, I handed our loot over and told her that they were a gimme to us and she was more than welcome to what was left.  : )..  She was definitely grateful.  I loved being able to help out.  I even volunteered to take some pictures for some fans who were trying to take pics on our way out.  One guy wasn't able to get in until I asked him if he wanted a shot with everyone. 

After that, we got back to the car and drove straight home to the pups.  Whew.  Whatta night!  What fun though!  Not sure I would volunteer again, but if I do, and I might, I'll make sure to wear my comfy shoes, no matter what I'm wearing.  Lol. There was a really super nice breeze blowing around the stadium that night and it really made it soooo nice.  Glad it's over for a while though.  I would love to try and beat our haul though.  "Last time I was doing this, the winner won $3,000!"  The home opener winner took home over $7,000.  I'm still happy with our score though.  With the highest dollar amount set at $10, we still managed to raise a heck of a lotta money that night.  Go team!

Here are some pics from the park..

 Before the game..

 Told ya I was heading there!  : )..

 Sooo nice..  : )..

 First inning action..

 This was the view from the fourth level,

yikes!

Sixth inning action,

right before we left.

Lol.  Whew.

It's enough to wear me out again!

Royals Game..

Volunteered to sell raffle tickets for the Arthritis Foundation at the Royals Game for ADT tonight.  We get free tickets to the game and a voucher for $10 of free food.  Which ought to buy me a hotdog and a soda.  Lol.  : )..  Still, should be fun, get to see the game and work for a good cause.  

I think this..

 is where you'll be able to find me and my raffle tickets!

Keepin cool by the waterfalls!

: )..

Now, that's my idea of catchin a baseball game!

Who knows, I might even get to meet Slugger.

Alrighty, and we are off to the ball game!



Yay!! Finally!! Big shots of our pods!! Yay!!

Finally had someone post a great link to the American Heart Association's Go Red on Friday, February 3rd's website where I could find bigger shots of our pods.  Here is our QA pod that didn't place at all..  Lol..

 And here is our Training Department pod that won first place...

I'm not bitter.  Lol.  But.  I still think we did a great job.  No matter what the outcome was.

Ok, so looking at their pod.  They must have spent forever cutting out all those hearts.

And they have a huge heart that they sewed together that supposedly had a beating heart sound emanating from it.  Eh.  Not bad.  Lol.