Volunteers.....

We have been asked to man the Hamburger booth at Farmers Market for Halloween, in addition to having a bake sale at that time. I am always shocked on how hard it is to find people to help with things like this. If I am planning on going somewhere I just figure I might as well help while I am there. There are always a very SPECIAL few who are always there for me when I need some extra hands. Thanks to them!!!! We had so many people at the first of the year sign up to volunteer. I am so thankful for that. Kristina's idea of having specific sign-ups helped a ton and sending out the sign-up with specifics at the first of the year also. We have a yearbook committee. We had a few moms sign-up for that and the yearbook committee has already had two meetings! I am so happy about that. I love additions like that. I have to say I am pretty excited about the fundraisers we are doing this year. Sees candy, Isabella Photography, and a personalized cookbook. I am really happy about all of these. I know they do not have th potential for bringing in the $ that cookie dough did last year but we just didn't have very many want it this year. I think out of all the slips, Kristina is the only one who said she wanted it. CRAZY! I am relieved though. Last year getting the cookie dough organized, set up and delivered was insane. Monica did such a great job at that though. I am also working on a football video. I have to go through it clip by clip, which means play-by-play the way I record, and it is taking forever. I have finally come to the realization that I will always keep my 8mm footage on the 8mm. I might make movies with some subjects but there are too many special moments that take 2 seconds of tape time and I would hate to loose that timeline with the other activities. I have to give an example: Michael's first game was in Cedar. It was 8:00 am and super cold. Of course we all wore summer clothes thinking Cedar hadn't cooled down yet. Cory, Michael and the Churchs rode up in our van and our sitting blankets were in the van. So of course being there by 7:00 am they had the blankets wrapped around them. We got one blanket back but there was a 9th grader that had on the other blanket. Christian wanted a blanket so I told him he had to get the one from that boy. He walked down there and came up with every excuse you could have thought of not to get that blanket. Hands in pockets, he would walked within a few steps of the kid and turn around. It was so precious. I would hate to lose that. Someday when 8mm are outdated (too late) then I will just make one constant stream of video and copy it to a disc, or maybe a blue ray. I would hate for the DVD to get scratched and we wouldn't be able to watch it ever again. Then again, I might as well just get a 8mm player and leave it at that!