Little Lucky Lady

K had her school's Open House last night. She was so excited to be the tour guide of her 1st grade classroom.

The evening started at 5:45 when we got to the school for the Parent Faculty Club's spaghetti dinner. In line we bought raffle tickets. It was $1 for 1 or $20 for the height of the child attending the school. We donated our $20 for 26 tickets or so - K's height. I joked that I wanted to borrow a taller child for this, but in the end it wasn't necessary. We grabbed our spaghetti - the kids with no sauce - just butter, and ours with meat sauce donated from Frankie Johnnie & Luigi's. All the tables were full, but we finally managed to squeeze at the end of a table.

I wrote K's name & phone number on every single ticket, just in case we weren't there. Then, K & I went up to the stage to drop the tickets in the box of whatever we wanted to win. She picked most of them. We pretty much had one in everything (except 1hr massage, spa). We even put one in for the Wii, for a Ipod nano. Her favorites were for McDonald's gift certificates, movie tickets. I put a couple in the wine basket, luggage & airline tickets.

By 6:30 the ticket numbers were called. By the 3rd prize we heard "K... M...." she was so excited she ran up to the front not even knowing what the prize was. She took it, but was warned that the bag was heavy. The bag contained a bunch of groceries from Trader Joes with a note outside stating 50 lbs of Alpine meats. A couple minutes later, a helper brought us a styrofoam cooler filled with meats! Wow - it was all cold & daddy took it all straight to the car. Almost injuring himself on the way from all the weight.

3rd number to the last to be called (right before the nano & the wii), we hear "and we have someone that has one something earlier tonight K... M....!" Again??!! We also had no idea what this prize was. It was so packed with people in the multipurpose room & it was noisy! K once again ran up to the front with me & bubs trailing behind her. This time she won a really nice Jansport backpack with a gift basket. The gift basket had 2 tickets to Great America! We scored. No vacation planned this summer - we definitely have to get in a trip in to Great America.

From there we went to her classroom. She showed us all the things she's been working on this past year. She is currently Star Student of the classroom, so she had just brought in pics of her as a baby, to girl scouts, to softball, to the family. We got to see them all on display. Mrs. Brown had put together a slide show of pictures & comments of the class. My favorite part was K's response to "What was your favorite memory of first grade?" K said - When we went on a field trip to Amador Theater to see Ramona and my mom went with us. That was a very important memory to K!

K was one lucky lady last night. And she had a smile on her face, all the way until her head hit the pillow!