Party Report

OK, I know this post should've been up a couple days ago.  Forgive me.

First things first.

The party went down Saturday night and was a lot of fun.  We were so blessed by everyone who came out to spend the night with us.  Huge, huge 'Thank You's' to everyone who pitched in to make the party a success.  I can't think of a better way to raise money than to spend time hanging out and dancing with awesome friends and family (although I admit I spent too much time talking instead of dancing).

Speaking of raising money... between tickets, raffles and donations we raised about $1,000!!

Again, thank you all so so much.

That money has already begun being put to use.  My parents have been able to get the ball rolling with the home inspection now, as well as a collection of other paperwork.  If all goes well, we'll be able to have our packet ready to go down to Haiti when Laurae goes down in a couple weeks.  Everything will need to go really well to meet that deadline, but Mom and Dad are well on their way with that stuff now.

My parents still have a lot of expenses ahead of them (approx. $20,000+) and there will be some more fun events coming up in the near future, but for now this is an awesome jump start.


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P.S. If you were thinking the girl's names have been spelled different in several different places in this blog, that's because it's true.  We finally got all their official information...

Maudeline  DOB 7.7.96 (13 years old)

Guerlene  DOB 8.31.98 (11 years old)

...so from now on we SHOULD have the correct spelling and such.



(p.p.s. This was written for a couple days before I clicked "post" making it a couple days older than the date it looks like... my baaaaad)