Missing SO Much - Alumni Banquet and Ballgame Fundraiser

I already told you that Baby Doll made Bingham's volleyball team the last week in July. They started practicing right away and they had a parent meeting that very first week. The second week was the annual fundraiser and banquet. They had a silent auction (I bought the Bees tickets there), a catered meal similar to Mo' Bettahs, and an Alumni volleyball game. Members who played in former years at Bingham signed up to play the current teams. Baby Doll was nervous, but excited to potentially see some of her friends from last year.

We showed up early to help set up and I ended up working the entire night at the apparel/merch table and the treats table. At some point, Scout and her friend, K, showed up and they were also convinced that they could help. It was so crazy! 

Really.

I did get a few minutes to watch Baby Doll play, but only from my vantage point at the apparel table. She did such a good job as usual. I love being her cheerleader. Although, I spent $28 for a team shirt and I wore it that night, but now Baby Doll has two team shirts, apparently...

By the time the evening was over, I was exhausted, but not nearly as tired as my friend, affectionately called Mama Jo by the girls. She was in charge of the whole ginormous party. I did donate and prepare a nice set of Tupperware bowls for the silent auction and they brought in $150 for the team, so I felt pretty good about that. 

All in all, we had a great (exhausting) time.

Bees Game

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a set of tickets to the Bees game through the auction set up by the volleyball team (something else I forgot to post about). These tickets were for the game on Aug 21st. I didn't realize at the time that both Curly and Sport would be in Denver watching the Broncos lose a pre-season game to the Packers. (They still had fun...)

So I convinced Scout and Baby Doll to come with me to the game as well as Curly's girlfriend, H.

We had so much fun!

They tossed half a dozen t-shirts into the crowd and Baby Doll caught one of them.

We left during the 8th inning, but by then the Bees had a solid win with the score at 11-1.

The new Bees stadium is small, but super nice although I was less than impressed with the cheeseburgers.

Our little girls night out was definitely worth the auction price.

Freezing Corn

As usual, our corn came on all at once. I'm so not complaining, I am excited to show you our first real canning activity of the year.

After Skittles football game, Dog Walker and I picked all the ripe corn. We didn't count, but I suspect we had about 50 ears. He helped me shuck it all before he had to go to work. Fortunately, Scout had offered to cut all the corn with the mandoline.

She always does awesome work, so after I blanched them for 3 minutes, she would cut them, and I would bag all that beautiful corn.

Then she was finished, I scraped each cob with a spoon to get all those tiny bits left by the cutter. These became 3 bags of creamed corn.

Besides that, we filled 13 qt-sized bags with cut corn.

It was a beautiful harvest.

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