The Golf Tournament was a HUGE Success!

Yesterday 54 golfers came to play and a host of others showed up during the day and for the raffle to show their support! Although the hard numbers are not final just yet, Angelina Safford Charities, Inc. was able to raise just over $15,500 in this inaugural event!

The golfers were so patient during registration because we were signing people in taking money and selling raffle tickets all at the same table! They bought an amazing amount of Mulligan's to help their golf game that came out to be around $500.00 for the day!

Brad Hicky's team won the tournament and made such a touching gesture of giving the foundation back each of the $50.00 Visa Cards that were apart of the prize bags! I can't tell you how taken back I was to see them do this. Chad Tipton won the "Closest-to-Pin" contest and Joe Loughman won the "Longest Drive" contest each winning a $50.00 restaurant gift card.

Kevin Hall was the big winner as he gets to enjoy the 32" LCD Flat Panel Television! He wasn't there, but many of his co-workers were and we all applauded him. There were several guys offering to "take the TV to him" but we knew what their motives were! Surprisingly a lot of the raffle items were won by supporters who were attending the event. I was really glad to see that! I think we should name Nester Martinez as the "Most winning raffler" as I believe he won like 5 different prizes that were really pretty good!

Blanca Sherwin donated ceramic tumblers that had Angelina's footprint on it that she made into an angel. On the back read "Sometimes angles need help to fly" which really does sum up what the foundation is all about - helping her and other kids with CP soar to success! They were for sale for a minimum $10.00 donation and we nearly sold all of them! THANK YOU BLANCA!!! Thank you so much to everyone that donated, played, bought a raffle ticket, sent prayers, gave prizes and all the other things I can't think of right now (we will blame this on my pregnant brain)!! Without all of you NONE of this would have been possible!

My poor sister got called out of the country for work during the process of putting everything together and did absolutely as much as she could from Saudi, the plane, DC and other places like that! Larry and I were so thankful that my very good friends Robin Truitt and Lisa English were able to step in and help us get everything together. From selling raffle tickets, picking up prizes, and many other things they did it! It took a HUGE amount of pressure of me and helped me enjoy things a lot more.

There was a lot of talk about when we were going to do the next event so the Board will be getting together to put together a plan of action for more events throughout the year. That way we can email them out for all to "Save The Date" and plan for with much more advance notice than this event! I can't believe we pulled this tournament off originally in about 30 days, but with the ice delay we got an extra 3 weeks to make double sure we had everything we needed! God works in such a great and mysterious way and he had his hand in all that made this event happen.

This weekend I am making a valiant effort to get everything posted on the foundation's website www.TeamAngelina.org so that all the sponsors, donators and winners can be viewed! Also, we will be posting pictures as well.

Okay, that's all for now!