Derrel's Aunt Joyce sent Emma $100 and her daughter Brenda sent $25 THANK YOU BRENDA AND JOYCE !!
On 6/20 Emma and I went downtown to get her Euros and Pounds. $150 of each cost us $472.63 holy moly!!
We also went to the DMV to get Emma a Utah ID so she can use her debit card easily, not having to pull out her passport every time. I don't know what I was thinking...well yes I do. I was thinking that they give you the card right there but when they handed us the temporary one and said that it would be 3-4 weeks to get, I remembered that is how it is. DUH! So, she will have a temporary one for her trip. Hopefully they don't give her a hard time:)
Last week was completely dedicated to getting ready for the Carnival/Movie Night fundraiser. It was super crazy, but so much fun. Thursday the weather was awful, it rained most of the day. Every time we looked at the forecast, it was different. It really looked like Friday night would have rain. I was so worried that the weather would be bad, I really didn't want to re-schedule. We prayed and prayed for good weather and we got it. It was perfect!!
I had so much help from my family and friends making this happen. It was a wonderful night. Looking back, I would do a few things different but over all it turned out great. THANK YOU to all who helped. So many people helped with set up, clean up, running a game or food table, running the auction, bake sale, raffle etc. So many people brought bake sale items that were amazing. Here are some pictures that were taken.
I wish I would have gotten one of the movie. I wasn't sure that it would work, taking a picture in the night and quite frankly, at that point I didn't have the energy to find out where the camera ended up.
Well, our final total for the night was $1871.54! NOT BAD. All due to the wonderful people who came to support Emma, YES THAT'S YOU!! THANK YOU ! We have to pay $400 for the movie so $1471.54 go to her trip putting us at $18.46 left to earn.
We had a few wonderful people, who couldn't make it, give us some money yesterday totaling $160. (Thank you JUDDS, PEDERSONS, TILBYS and HARMS)
SO WE DID IT!!! We made our goal of $7000 and $141.54 over ( this will be great for some of those last minute things she needs for traveling) YAHOO! I never thought we would make it this far.
I really truly never thought I could let my 11 year old daughter go on a trip half way around the world without me and that we could earn the $7000 to do it. I guess we never know what we are capable of until we try. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!!!
Emma leaves this Wednesday, I cant believe it is here. Here is her itinerary for those who want to check it out. It is pretty amazing!!
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