I have to admit I have been absolutely terrible at blogging! I actually forgot i even started a blog. I made a deal with my friend Megan Cooley that if she blogged once everyday that I would blog atleast once a week.
So lets start with the thing that has taken over my life as of right now,
Ecuador!! I am going on a service trip in May for a month with a group called OSSO. I will be volunteering in an orphanage and cant wait to go! In order to go on this adventure I need to be able to raise atleast $3,000! I decided i wanted to do this about 3 weeks ago. Put in my application the next week and started fundrasing the week after that. It has all been happening so fast but I am so excited! Since valentines was coming up we decided to do something for that. I work at a bakery, so we decided to do cookie bouquets! We made one up, took pictures and put flyers around the neighborhood all in one night. I started getting calls and taking orders fast. With the help of my mom, aunt, cousin and sisters we started baking and decorated tons and tons of cookies. My wonderful boss let me use the bakery to bake in and the ingredients too! i am so greatful for that because it saved us a lot of money! We spent like 4 nights in a row staying up until midnight to get this cookies done. Between work and this fundraiser I am so sick of sugar cookies!! When it was all done and I counted the money I had made about $970! I was shocked! We were not expecting this much money at all. The long nights and tons of hours had finally paid off! I felt like I was at times square in New York and the ball had just dropped! I am amazed at how generous people are. Some of my neighbors took flyers to their work and I was able to get so many orders. In just 6 days I am that much closer to being able to go. I am SO blessed!
Trays and trays of sugar cookies!
Oour kitchen table was just covered in cookies and wrapped in saran wrap! This was only half, the others covered the rest of the counter tops.
So lets start with the thing that has taken over my life as of right now, Ecuador!! I am going on a service trip in May for a month with a group called OSSO. I will be volunteering in an orphanage and cant wait to go! In order to go on this adventure I need to be able to raise atleast $3,000! I decided i wanted to do this about 3 weeks ago. Put in my application the next week and started fundrasing the week after that. It has all been happening so fast but I am so excited! Since valentines was coming up we decided to do something for that. I work at a bakery, so we decided to do cookie bouquets! We made one up, took pictures and put flyers around the neighborhood all in one night. I started getting calls and taking orders fast. With the help of my mom, aunt, cousin and sisters we started baking and decorated tons and tons of cookies. My wonderful boss let me use the bakery to bake in and the ingredients too! i am so greatful for that because it saved us a lot of money! We spent like 4 nights in a row staying up until midnight to get this cookies done. Between work and this fundraiser I am so sick of sugar cookies!! When it was all done and I counted the money I had made about $970! I was shocked! We were not expecting this much money at all. The long nights and tons of hours had finally paid off! I felt like I was at times square in New York and the ball had just dropped! I am amazed at how generous people are. Some of my neighbors took flyers to their work and I was able to get so many orders. In just 6 days I am that much closer to being able to go. I am SO blessed!
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