Saturday, April 18, 2009

Fundraiser Announcements

Hello everyone,

Please spread the word about the three fundraisers below.

We are also announcing three fundraising opportunities we have been able to line up:
  1. Straw Hat Pizza Fundraiser: Thursday, April 23, 2009 from 11am to 11pm we will be having a Pizza Fundraiser all day long at Straw Hat Pizza located at 2929 Mather Field Road, Rancho Cordova. Dine-in and carryout only. 50% of the pizza purchases will go to support Alisha's trip to New Jersey that day.
    Thank you Skip!!!

    WOW!!! What a day!! Things went very well with the Straw Hat Pizza Fundraiser!! Thanks to all the hard work of everyone who told friends and family about it, stood outside with signs and the awesome staff at Straw Hat we were able to raise....drumroll please..... "sound of drumroll here"....$864 from pizza sales!!!! Also in the couple of days prior up through Thursday night many people gave cash directly to help Alisha get to New Jeresy in the amount of $347!!!! WE THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!!


  2. Car Wash Fundraiser at Firestone: Saturday, April 25, 2009 we will be holding a car wash fundraiser from 8am til 2pm at the Firestone located at 10407 Folsom Blvd in Rancho Cordova. The manager at Firestone, Danny, has offered a coupon for 'one free oil change' to be given to the first five washed vehicles Saturday morning (good only at this Firestone location).
    Thank you Danny!!!

    Wow Oh Wow Again!!! Today was the Car Wash Fundraiser and it went splendedly!! Big Thanks to everyone who came out to help wash cars!! A Special Thanks to the parents who brought their kids out to lend a hand washing cars!! Vaughn, Thanks for the use of the Easy Up Shade canopy!! Super Big Thanks to all of the people who stopped by to get their car washed!! Our total for the car wash today was $782!!!
    THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

    We would also like to thank a few businesses that gave a little to help us a lot. First, Firestone for allowing us to hold the car wash at their location and the oil change coupons. Little Caesar's Pizza on Zinfandel Drive for providing 5 pizzas for our volunteer's lunch. Absolutely More Bounce (
    http://www.morebounce.net/) for donating the snow cone machine and supplies. Also, Raley's for the ice to keep our drinks cold and making the snow cones!!

  3. A friend of ours, Melissa Lilley, is a Mary Kay consultant and she is generously donating 20% of what she earns over the next four weeks!!!! WOW!! Thank you Melissa. To order through her please go to the following link www.marykay.com/mlilley .

    We look forward to seeing a lot of our family and friends at these events and meeting some new friends!!! Thank you for your support and please pass the word along about the excitement this coming week!!

3 comments:

  1. Hi! I found your blog on Heidi's blogroll. Alisha is beautiful! We have a son who will be 5 on Sunday who has CdLS. If you don't mind, I will add you to my blogroll. Good luck with your fundraising efforts!

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  2. Hi Rachelle!! I would love to hear all about your son. Does he have a feeding tube?? Best of luck with everything that you do. I would love to share tricks on how to do things!! That is my favorite part of the web and meeting moms is that not one of us ever has to come up with every idea on our own and that just covers the basics!!!

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  3. hello there! fellow CdLS mom here! I found your blog through Rachelle's :). i think that this blog is amazing and so glad that Alisha is going to get feeding therapy to help her learn to eat! i hope you don't mind if i too add you to my blog roll and follow along!

    my son mason is 18 months old and tube fed.. he is in O.T. feeding therpy but only aloud to take tastes. i cannot wait to hear how everything goes with your beautiful little girl!
    misty

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