A Success

So this last weekend we had our annual We Love Kids Banquet...we called it our WLK Half Time Show. A sports theme seemed fitting since it fell on the weekend of the superbowl. Funny thing about that is that every year for every event we did, one of the guys I work with would have an epiphany moment for allllll of them and say "I've got it! we need to do a sports theme!" and he'd get shot down every time. I mean it could be the valentines banquet or a mother daughter tea and he'd say it should be a sports theme...we threw him for a loop this year and actually went for it before he even had his epiphany moment!
We ended up with 447 kids...which was a record for this event...a couple hundred volunteers and a great time was had by all. I actually can't believe how well it all went...there are always ways to improve any thing you do so of course we have our list for future planning but I was so pleased with how it all went.
I wish there was a way to capture what it feels like to be in a room with 447 kids and the energy that lights up every face. I took some pictures of course and they are fun to look at so enjoy and I am going to go stare or do something that requires little thought because I am still a little fried from all the fun!
(oh yeah...my costume was a t-shirt with boxing bunnies on it and some bunny ear thingies with foot balls on the ends...and some garland with footballs on it tucked into my belt loops...yeah...not really much of a plan went into what I wore this time around...but the little ones really dug my antanna's so it's all good)