"FUN"draiser

This weekend was the big fundraiser at Priya's school hosted by the PTO. Titled "Fair and Fun Run", it offered a little something for everyone.

As the room parent for Priya's kinder class, I was in charge of (among other things) filling the volunteer slots for our class booth. Animesh joyfully offered to work a shift which helped me out a lot. I had to rearrange his time slot so that he would set up and work the first shift so that I could attempt the 5K fun run. Mom and Dad were going to watch the kids...it was set.

Little did we know what the booth entailed. We had the "Polly Pick Pocket" booth...which requires the volunteer to wear an apron (and a feminine one at that) and ask kids to pick one of the pockets for a prize. Imagine that. Teaching kids at a school function how to pick pockets. What a great educational lesson!

So, here is my sport-of-a-husband...wearing his Polly Pick Pocket apron...just before he, in his words, accosted children and asked them to pick his pockets. After his shift Animesh mentioned that if he had been doing this on the street and not at a school function, he would have been arrested 5 minutes into it. Nothing like a man approaching children asking them if they want a piece of candy.


The fair was filled with lots of activities and games, but some of our favorites included face painting...


...tattoo art...


...colored hair spray...


...digging for treasures in the sand...


...and plenty of fun fair food such as the ever-popular cotton candy. This was Trevor's first experience with cotton candy...


...and his first-ever nachos. Of course both were a big hit.


Deven thought the scarecrow needed a little Spurs spirit with the season about to begin.


Deven could have bounced down this slide all day long...especially as full of sugar as he was.


The fun fair family.


We got to spend the fun fair day with Mimi and Papa Jim...one of Deven's fave people in the world.
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Daddy took this one while we were waiting to see what we won in the silent auction. We were TIRED!

We are guessing that the school raised enough money (at least between us and Melody's family! :) to meet their fundraising goal for the year! Animesh and I admit it...we have a weakness for silent auctions. But, admitting it is the first step to recovery, right?!