A fun night, a busy day ahead

Last night I brought my sister with to a benefit for a woman named Mary Lund. I do not know Mary, and only met her last night. She has stage 4 renal cancer. My friend, Sarah, held a benefit for her in Maple Lake last night. They raised over $8,000! We get there & only know Sarah & her husband, so we volunteered to work whatever was needed. It was fun! I met a lot of new people... and come to find out we were spending the evening with some of the "Top Dogs" in Buffalo. The whole room was filled with Wright County Judges, Cops & Lawyers. Even got some free business legal advice from one attorney, and got some business cards from some others. It was a BLAST! Even my sister... who does not ever do anything- she is just a 'homebody' and does not like to go out much had fun! My friend Sarah helped at the benefit we held for my sister who under went several brain surgeries this past fall. So we went to help her with the one when was heading up.
 We were amazed by the things they had at the silent auction. I ended up with a new lipstick pink (i got out bid on the black one I wanted) Jessica Simpson purse, and a new digital video camera & $250 towards a new bed. I got out-bid (thanks to Sarah lol) on all the scrapbooking- creative memories stuff they had... but I left happy. My sister got a huge cuisinart pots & pans set, and some lia sophia jewelry.  All in all it was great! Sarah did a great job in organizing the event- so much so I know she is in the wrong line of work. LOL She could be arranging these things for a living... but I suppose no one really pays for anyone to come do that do they? She did a great job!
As for today it is the middle of January & we NEED to get our Christmas tree down. YES, ours is still up! We just have not had the time to take it down. So plan today is Church/ Sunday School, Hockey game, and come home & clean. We have a lot of people coming to watch Zander play Goalie again today so who knows we may end up going out for dinner afterwards with everyone.