Bigger and Better things!

So, with our first walk behind us, we decided it was time to shoot for bigger and better things for our second year. We raised our goal to $7,500 and with doing so, thought we should do some added fundraisers to help reach it. In May, we sent out emails and collected people's unwanted treasures for a multi-family yard sale. This was a great success with raising $520 to go towards our team goal and anything that did not sell was donated to goodwill. We'd like to put a shout out to everyone that donated items to our yard sale and a special thank you to David and Kori Harris for letting us borrow their driveway. You guys are awesome, not only did you donate your prime location, you also had to deal with the whole Gale family for the entire day! Yikes, that's a lot to ask.

Be sure to start saving any unwanted goodies because I'm sure we will do this again in the spring:)

Unfortunately I was not thinking and didn't take any pictures.

As a last minute idea to try to bring in more funds, we decided to have a walk kick off party at Steve's Pizza. We figured everyone needs to eat and why not donate a little to the cause at the same time. We sent out emails asking everyone to join us and spread the word and little Ranse made up a flyer to pass out to his entire football team.

We weren't sure what to expect, we hoped for a good turn out but you just never know. We were blown away when the entire pizza place was packed with our friends, family and football team. We counted around 130 people that showed up to support Michael's Crew. Steve's Pizza donated 20% of the sales before tax and we were very pleased to pick up a check for $275 the following day. The owner was very pleased and invited us to come back and have as many fundraisers as we would like.

Thanks again to everyone that came out that night, when I know it would have been so easy to just stay home. Let's just say we have the absolute best friends and family in the whole world!!!

Here are some pictures I took that evening.