Belly Update

Baby Farmer and I have been pushing the on up the growth chart. Here are a couple of pictures:

Gabby & I ready for church 21weeks+5 days

24 weeks + 5 days - Gabby & I are in the purple baby's room...don't worry its going to be blue very soon!

Spirited Soiree' 2009

One of my job responsibilities at Virginia Stage Company is planning all the special event fundraisers for the theater. Special Event planning is fun, but our spring annual fundraiser turned out to be a bit more than I had anticipated this year...taking most of the fun out of planning this event. ;( After our managing director made some rather poor financial decisions for the Company the expectations for "my" event went through the roof...aka net profit. Well, in case no was in tune with the economy corporate sponsorships were down, as were ticket sales for the event...no surprise there....so how am I supposed to raise all this money exactly?? I was slightly stressed for a good month...OK really stressed, but through lots of prayer the event was a success. It was a total God miracle!

I've included some pictures below of the event with captions. And to all those fundraising junkies out there we surpassed our net profit from last year!! YAY!!

(the pictures are in backwards order??!!)

We entertained our guest with a mini vaudeville show before the live auction and our talented resident artists created the coolest/ghostly atmosphere in the theater! The theme of the event is based around the ghost that haunt the Wells Theater.

Since we are limited to space in our lobbies we chose to close down the street in front of the theater, put up a tent and provide a place for people eat, drink & be merry! We were also able to sell corporate tables for the event that brought in more $$. Getting all the permits for the street closure was a difficult task to say the least. It even resulted in me turning on my 'southern charm' 3 days before the event at the permit office. It was either that or crying?? hehe

Above, our lovely ODU intern Katie showing off our lovely silent auction items. She got about half of our items donated for the event and was a huge help! Dean and I were able to purchase 2 photography auction items to use after baby D.B. arrives!

Our lovely ice sculpture that was donated :)

Dean, me (as the Ghost of Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady) and Patrick (ghost of Jake Wells) Patrick & I both have on white make-up, but it was so hot at the event both of our masks sweated off after about 30 minutes ;)

Dean was a huge help during the event! Since I am not supposed to lift anything heavy and do much manual labor Dean was by my side helping with everything he could. He also got to drive 3 new cars that were displayed at the event - including the new mustang (it was a standard - yikes - glad i didn't have to drive that one) Thanks honey!!!

Since I worked so much overtime this past month I have plenty of comp time to use so the Farmer's will be taking a nice vacation in June to see family and friends!