A Bake Sale and A Countdown!

With 50 days left before we board a plane for Italia, we are into the final push of fundraising. We are still a couple of thousand dollars shorter than we'd like to be (the exchange rate to the Euro means our money doesn't go as far), but we've got a couple of things left. Yesterday, three of the boys and I spent the day in Ft. Davis having our last bake sale. The Maria and Latham were taking the ACT test and Gaby was on her way to Lubbock for Regional Golf competition.

The first bake sale we had in September helped us to raise almost $900, this sale was closer to $500. We didn't make as much but we had a good time.  The boys enjoyed telling everyone good morning who came to the store, whether they purchased goods or not, and I was impressed with how many shoppers knew who we were and where we plan to go.

The boys were even asked to pose with a lovely woman from England here on holiday. She said her mum had kept asking if she'd found a cowboy, and we had three! She was excited to take a picture with the boys and they were happy to oblige :)

With so few days remaining, and spring semester being what it is, we won't have anymore big fundraisers, with the exception of our Mother's Day Luncheon on May 11th. We will have at least one more raffle. Randy Glover, a local artist donated a beautiful necklace that we will be raffling soon! If you have any ideas of ways to help us reach our final goal, please let us know. We've worked extremely hard to be able to afford the trip to Italy, now we want to make sure our money goes as far as we need it to.