Fundraiser at Hannah's School

Hannah's school had the neatest fundraiser last week. They had a free chili supper with chili donated by Waffle House. Then you could pay $5 and have your picture made with Santa and Mrs. Claus. This got you a 5 x7 picture. The actual fundraiser part was they had each class put together a themed basket of goodies and then they had a silent auction to raise money. This was great because many of the baskets would make great Christmas presents.

After our chili, the kids wrote letters to Santa while standing in line to sit in his lap. I actually forgot to take a picture of Hannah's letter, so I am including one that she did at school. Notice the number one thing on her list is an iPad. Her class has been fortunate enough to be able to have an iPad for the kids to use, so she wants one. Santa probably won't be able to fulfill this request, sadly, as they are much too expensive!!! Other things on her list are bubblegum, American girl doll, pillow pet, dog, paper, cat, Reddy Freddy book (they read about him in class), a school box (???), markers, crayons, and candy.

Lincoln's list. He wants a telescope, 2 pillow pets (not sure why the 2), and a horsey table. Not sure what the horsey table was either. Ha!

They put their letters in the mail box to send to Santa at the North Pole.

Are these not the cutest Santa and Mrs. Claus? I thought the picture turned out so good! Definitely a framer.

They talked to the kids after their picture.

Hannah's class decorated a pink Christmas tree to auction off. Ms. Sondra, the room mom, did a FANTASTIC job on this tree. It was worth over $1,000!!! She got all kinds of things donated. Some of the items were: The Peabody Hotel one overnight stay worth $129, a massage, a manicure, a pedicure, various restaurant gift cards, 7 pair of sunglasses worth $280, and lots of other girly girl type things. That was the theme of the tree. It was awesome and ended up going for over $400! I never heard how much money they made over all but it had to have been quite a bit of money. There were some neat baskets.

Kris bought us a night at the Peabody Hotel and dinner for two at Capriccio, a $350 value for about half the price. We will be using that for our 10 year anniversary in June! Pretty fun fundraiser!! Much preferred over having to sell gift wrap or cookies!