D & B DeWitt Family

Many days ago......Yep, I've been busy.  There have been quite a few activities that I've been involved with these past few week and one of those is Mesa High's Prom.  Doug, being the great 'set-builder' that he is...remember the windmill from the play 'Oklahoma'?  

Well, we were asked to help design a few Prom decorations.  Something that could be 10 feet tall and sturdy enough to hold material that they will drape from these swirly, curly things and also add Christmas lights - like a waterfall effect.

Well, here they are.  All 18 of them.  

Luckily, by Saturday they will be gone.  

Also, our ward did a fundraiser yesterday.  The kids were asked to get sponsors to pay any amount for how many laps they ran at our local Jr. High school.  We, meaning Doug, pledged $5.00 a LAP for Shannon.  Not $5 per mile, no per lap......  We, again meaning Doug, felt pretty confidant that she wouldn't get too many laps accomplished, however, she did great and reached an amazing 12 laps!  They had an hour to do it, so I shouldn't be surprised, that is like walking 3 miles in an hour.  Good job Shan.....   Now, last Sunday, we found out the Young Men of our ward were invited to use this as one of their fundraisers as well.  Allan didn't get as many pledges as Shannon because he didn't have a month to ask around (brothers & sisters that would normally come to dinner on Sunday) and so we (once again, Doug) volunteered the same amount we offered Shannon.  I think Doug must not have remembered that Allan was setting long distant running records at Brimhall Junior High when he was attending there!!!  I won't give the exact number of laps that Allan ran, but I will say it was over 29 and he did the most out of all the WHOLE mutual group.  That put a whole lot of money in our ward budget.  

Along with just pledging funds for the laps, we were asked to do a booth or two for the carnival that they had set going while the kids were running.  People paid $1.00 for 10 tickets (I think, I never got to leave my booth because it was busy).  But each booth you paid a ticket to would let you do that activity.  I was in charge of the balloon/dart game.  It was a joke at the beginning because there was a slight wind and my balloons would get blown off my board and pop in the grass!!  (Good thing I blew up about 300 balloons).  Luckily, the wind died down and all went well.  Oh, Doug made this amazing stand for me to use for my game.  The other booth we did was the sponge toss game.  Doug designed/cut/built this.....and then I painted it.  I'm sorry I can't get the picture to turn the right way.  Anyway, this added to our out of pockets costs to help.  Although, these will always be in the 'family game' arsenal that we are stockpiling.

sometimes I just can't get it to turn the right way, sorry!

  

Our bishopbric each took a turn standing behind here and the kids LOVED it.  We had brought our hair-cutting cape so they didn't get too soaked, but of course they did and the kids had a great time watching them get smacked and drenched!  All in all it was a great success.  We had a good showing.  I'm not sure what they all earned in the fundraising department but I think it will be an amount that will be welcome.  

Also, one last thing.  Shannon was asked to the Prom and so we came up with this.  It is a shirt from her closet that she never wore because it fit funny.  So we took out the elastic waist and pinned it to a sheet (the peach under material) that I got from Goodwill for a dollar .  Then we bought the tulle and a zipper for around $17 at JoAnn's and lastly, the belt we found at Sas (a store we love ).  

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Sas is a material store mostly sales the fabric by the yard, but it does sell some of its fabric by the pound.  Most of the material is fancy, not the average cotton kind, but it has lace, appliques and trim that was ever produced in the world - okay, slight exaggeration   It is one of those stores you have to dig through to find what you want, but if you have the patience to do it, usually it works out.  Anyway, we are very please with how it came out.  This was truly my first experience with out a pattern to help me every step of the way.  I actually had to use my mind to think 3 or 4 steps before so I could know what needed to be sewn before the next step.....!  

This belt I love, love, love.  It brought the shirt and the skirt material nicely together.