St Susanna Auction

Well after MONTHS of planning, it all came together, tonight. What a fun time! This was St. Su's 19th annual PTP Auction. We generally make $70,000 for the school during this one event. It is $65/ticket and this pays for your meal, cocktails, dessert, and one entry into the $10,000 Reverse Raffle. We also collected donations from over 600 businesses. We have things such as overnight stays, tanning packages, grooming packages, foursome golf expeditions, birthday parties, etc. We have half of the banquet halls with baskets that we have put together of these items. Unfortunately, I lost out on the Monkey Joes' birthday party for Tootie, I also lost out on a Ballerina basket for Tootie, I did win Mom and Dad the Overnight package to the Casino Aztar, though! Woohoo! My big purchase for the night was J a ride in the PT Woody with Mrs. B to Culvers. You see Mrs. B advertises for months about her ride to Culver's in the PT Woody Cruiser. On Friday, she had the PT Woody decked out with a large white dog with a St. Patrick's Day Hat strapped to the roof, with a Shamrock stuck to the grill. You can imagine all the kids hollering "I have to win that ride" One of those kids would be my son! Everyday, I hear about riding in the PT Woody. Well, tonight, my friend Jill and Stacy M (Zoe and Holden's Moms) we got together and were bidding for all 3 of them to ride together. Well, Mikey's Mom and Dad had no limit on what they would pay for Mikey to go. We ended up in talking Mrs. B to taking 2 rides, one for 3 boys and one ride for the 3 girls- all for the small price of $1000 total for all 6 kids! Whew!!!! We were all standing guard next to the bid sheets. The PTP reps all made theme baskets and these were auctioned off. Patti and I made 3 large baskets of "I'm Not Bored Anymore" We had games and gift cards for all ages. We also made a kilned plate of the kids's signatures with the Kindergarten year. Our basket went for $300. Kinderbear from last year was auctioned off at $500...whewy. Lots of good stuff. Hopefully, the numbers will come back better than last year. It was sooooo much fun, though. Can't wait for next year, again. Gotta go set the clock forward...Yuck