First Fundraiser - Success!

I'm excited to announce that my first fundraiser went great!

My husband Blaine and I had a grilling/wine/cheese/game night with friends. I was planning on having the game night before I even signed up for Team In Training, but decided to offer bottles of Blaine's dad's homemade wine for anyone who donated $15 or more. We raised $130 in one night of fun! (It might take a couple of weeks for processing, but it will be showing up in my fundraising tally soon!)

Everyone seemed to have a great time. I'm so thankful to have met such amazing people in Connecticut over the past year and can't wait to do it again!

I definitely learned a few lessons though, the most important of which being that if you ask for food, my friends will bring a lot of it! Thankfully most people brought their leftovers back home with them, but there were still enough here to completely fill our fridge. We also bought too much extra food ourselves -- most of our awesome cheese didn't even make it onto the table!

On the plus side, nobody went hungry!

I'm definitely hoping to get a run in tomorrow. I'd like to try out my new Armpocket, which just arrived in the mail today. It's purple -- for Team In Training -- and fits my arm and my phone perfectly! I also need to run off some of these calories...