Well I finally got some pics of our bake sale before Christmas. The kids baked their little hearts out and I don't think my kitchen will ever recover:)
We baked cookies, cakes, cupcakes, pies, muffins, you name it. Tons and tons of sweets and such. We spend three days baking and wrapping our goodies, most of the work was done by the kids. They were quite the little troopers, stayed up late baking and got up early to start again.
The kids wanted to make sugar cookies with cookie cutters but we couldn't find any Christmas cookie cutters. Our friend Ruth gave us the cookie cutters she had which consisted of a dog, a polar bear, a horse, a snowman and a dog bone. We probably made 200 sugar cookies that kids decorated and we had some of the prettiest Christmas dog bones you could ever ask for:)
They definately got creative with the decorating. And the decorated cookies sold like hot cakes.
Finally the day came, it was only 30 degrees out and we set up the table and goodies. Once again the kids displayed their great attitudes and never complained about the cold. Pamida in Custer graciously let us set up our bake sale booth in front of their store.
The sale was a wonderful success, we sold almost all of our baked items and raised a good amount of money for our trip to Denver in March. It was a blast to watch the kids and they had a wonderful time. You know it is times like these they will remember when they get older. These are the memories of a lifetime for theses kids. And it is so great to be able to be a part of these moments and share these with the kids. I cannot praise these young ones enough for all their hard work, dedication to their horses, their willingness to do what is necessary to help out any way they can. This is definately a special group of kids.
The pics are of our baking, at the sale with the Young Dakota Riders and of Jazzmine and Trystan taking a nap at the end of the day at Pamida on the pallets with bags of salt.
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