Carnival Time

Chili Carnival is a big event at the kiddo's school. It is one of the major fundraisers that the school does also - so it is loved by all - well, mostly, there are those that do a lot of volunteering and love it - those that don't help at all and complain about it - those that help and complain and those that don't help, but would never want the even to disappear - and those that would rather turn the event into something that would be AS exciting, but not AS labor intensive - and not needing so many permits (our parents cook the chili). In the end most everyone agrees that they had fun though - and that is all that really matters.

Did we have fun? Yep, for the most part. Being PTO Treasurer it seems that my job (I didn't volunteer) was to run around and make sure everyone had enough money (I set up the money boxes early in the day, made certain change was maintained - we had tons of $20 bills and ran out of $1's and $5's (thanks to LW for making a dash for those!). By the end of the evening I had a big old sack of money. The scary thing is - no one knew how much money was in the bag. Anyone of us working money through the evening could have pocketed some - BigGuy and I could have gone Christmas shopping yesterday and reported less money then we actually had - NO ONE WOULD BE THE WISER! We didn't though - and we still have all that shopping to do, but that is another blog.

An interesting turn for this event though - as you look through the pictures do you see SuperStar at the event very much? No, you don't - she is only in 1 of those pics - although she is in a few from when we voluteered early in the day to wrap desserts with our GS troop. Why do you think she is gone? Well, because we deemed her old enough to run around the event with friends............we didn't even have to explain it to her - as soon as we said it she was GONE!