A Giveaway!!!

The poll on the right side of my page was not point-less. Thanks to all who voted. March 22nd marked my one-year blogiversary! Exciting I know. I can't believe it has been a year since I wrote my first blog. In honor of that and to thank all of you that have helped out my Relay for Life team, I will be giving you what YOU want.

I am giving away a $25 gift card to the restaurant of your choice. If you live outside my area, I will do my best to find a card to the restaurant you pick. If you live in my area, I would like to suggest you double your money by possible picking one of these restaurants (I just found this website recently, and thought I would share).

How do you enter, you ask?

1. Leave a comment, telling me WHY you started your blog AND WHERE you would like your gift card to.
2. If you have/will by a cookbook, leave me a comment.
3. If you left an online donation, leave me a comment.
4. If you will donate something to my yard sale, leave me a comment. We are changing the date to April 18.
5. A new way to donate to my team is to purchase a luminaria in honor or memory of a loved one that has had cancer. I have the bags that you can decorate or I can simply write your loved one's name on it for you. They are $10 and all the money goes to the American Cancer Society. They have a special ceremony at the Relay where they light candles in the bags and read the names of all the people.

I will end this giveaway on Sunday, April 5th at 11:59 p.m. and draw on Monday. Good luck!

My Challenge for You!

It is that time of the year again and this year I really need your help. I am team captain of our Relay for Life team for the 3rd year in a row. We started doing Relay for Life right after Grandma lost her well-fought battle with cancer.

This year we are selling the cookbooks we made with her recipes in them again. We did this the first year and it was a great money maker. Hopefully we can get rid of them all again. There are 84 pages in the book, along with a helpful hints section. We are selling them for $10 and 6.50 from each book will go to the American Cancer Society.

We will also be having a yard sale to raise money for our team the first weekend in April.

Now to the point of this blog. I need all of you to help me. I challenge each person that reads my blog to either:

• Donate money to my team. For every $10 you donate, I will donate $5.


• Buy a cookbook, I will either deliver it or cover shipping charges.


• Donate some old stuff you have laying around your house to our yard sale. What doesn't sale we donate to the Safe House for Women.

If you do any of the above leave me a comment here and I will enter you for a chance to win something (also to be determined). I will update this blog with my personal Relay link and the prize soon....Promise.

Fundraising Ideas

Next year the Relay for Life is going to be held on April 25. This date is quite a bit earlier than the Relays we have participated in in the past. It cuts out any chance of doing things at Summerfest, along with other fundraisers we have done previously. I need help thinking of things to do to raise money. Do any of you fellow blogger have any ideas? Michele, if you read this I know your team had $10k, what did you do? Kara, your March of Dimes team did really well. Help! Please. It was tough before, I know its gonna be tougher with a baby.