Had a great night last night! We did a fundraiser benefit thing for this officer Chris Garon .... well he's no longer an officer actually ... story here ..... my step dad heard the story on the radio and told my mom they needed to do something about it and she co-ordinated this benefit for him. Even got him an autographed Charles Rogers Lions Jersey from the Lions organization donated for our raffle .... which Chris ended up keeping. I really wanted that :p~


Anyway, we had a 50/50 raffle and some items to raffle off ... they charged 10$ at the door which included a spaghetti dinner (which was fabulous!) and Chris showed up with his mom for awhile. It was 3 different area bands, of which my step dad mark is in one. They all donated their time and some donated items. There were also a couple of commedians that appear there Sunday evenings occassionally. (the place is the Crystal Lounge on Beech daly and Joy road) ... so i sold the item raffle tickets and my mom sold the 50/50 tickets. In the end we won a couple of things ourself, which was kinda cool since we bought almost 30 bucks in tickets to get things rolling :p~ .... And we went there today to present Chris with his check ( he nor his friend showed up, we're going to mail it to him) and George (one of the owners) told us that 2100$ were raised! \:D/

so i feel good today. We did a good thing AND we had fun! And i'm proud of my mom ... and mark i guess .... people kept asking how we knew Chris and the truth is we didn't. Like i said they heard the story and wanted to help. So they did. Lots of people gave us kudos and i have to send all mine over to my mom. She rocks!

okay time to go to sleep! *hugs*