On April 4th Oscar and I celebrated 27 years of marriage, still awed that two young & ignorant teenagers made it work this long and this well. Oscar is an amazing man, it has been an honor to love him, parent with him and now grandparent together even during the seasons when marriage & parenting weren't all that much fun. This photo was taken the day before our anniversary, while we attended the other notable event in this month.
The 4th Annual Firemen's Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser,I chaired this event for the Redondo Beach Woman's Club. I worked with a committee of on-fire women and we put the "fun" back in fundraiser... over $5,000 was raised for the firemen to use on equipment not supplied by the city budget. This really should have had it's own post, there are so many women that could & should be recognized for their contribution.
I will mention that for the first time ever... every single one of my children was busy with their own work and/or lives, making them unavailable to be guilt-ed into working as slave labor... I mean encouraged to help work... this event with me. Elise Makowsky (my soon to be daughter-in-law, but that's a post for October) came to the rescue and spent all day with me, both the 3rd & 4th, running around and helping put on this fabulous evening!
Since this is a "review post", I'll have to hit the highlights and post a few photos of the evening......
This lady is a Donation Collector Extraordinaire, Sheila brought in many of the items used in the Silent Auction... our biggest portion of the funds raised that evening.
Winter even brought guests to the event... Conrad and her little Bestie, Eva!
I will give a full post to this years fundraiser on April 14th, 2012. Yes, that was a shameless plug to attend this year's dinner, come join the fun with us!
Again with the disclaimer... I'm confident I missed mention of some one or some place that should have made it into the annual write up... Sorry it was you!
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