The Great Escape was a SMASHING SUCCESS!

Last night was the auction.  It was AMAZING.  A special thank you goes to Lisa Evans, Stacey Chiang, Brenda Craven, John Clarke and Bryan McLain for attending and representing the faculty of DCE.  I hope they had a blast.  I know Stacey and Joe did.  Joe was my personal Craps (the gambling game) coach.  It was so much fun!  The dinner was provided by J Macklins.  It was delicious.  The gambling was fun and I think enjoyed by everyone who participated.  The auction was the best part.  As in year's past, Melissa Raetzman was a lot of fun to watch.  She gets very excited and is extremely serious about that parking spot.  Nobody better park in that girl's spot.  She paid a LOT of money for it.  I hope you guys have enjoyed that Roll Tide sign in Loop B, because it is staying.  The Monroe's were not letting that one go.  I managed to win a casino raffle item with my Craps money and Colton will be the owner of the West Playground sign next year.  GO SOONERS!

All in all it was a wonderful night.  Sheila Pensotti and her team did a great job.  I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

Enjoy....

It's AUCTION time!!!!

I can't believe it is already the end of February.  Life is FLYING by this year.  This is the third year in a row that we have had our annual ADULT ONLY DCE Dinner and Auction.  It has been such a huge success.  Compared to the carnivals that we used to do, we make 3 times as much money and use about 1/5 the amount of volunteer hours.  That is not to say that those of us working on this thing aren't working, it just doesn't take quite as many of us to pull it off.  Now, we CANNOT have a successful auction without a lot of wonderful parents to buy tickets and attend.  The auction is this Saturday at the beautiful Grapevine Springs in Coppell.  This is the senior center that was built using our tax dollars and this place is GORGEOUS!  The food will be provided by J. Macklin's.  There is a casino for fun entertainment, music (provided by my ipod playlist....the pressure....), a silent auction, a HUGE gift card raffle, Casino raffle prizes (including a $750 Stella and Dot jewelry collection... can you say, WHOOHOOOO), a festive live auction, a cash bar and lots of friends to chat with all night long.  Babysitting has been arranged at the YMCA.  You have no excuses.  BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!  There are only a limited number of tickets for sale.  When we run out of space, we can't sell anymore.  YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!  We are taking credit cards this year for all the expenses including the bar.

Ok, you say you can't come because your child has a party.  Send your husband with the kids and come on!  Last year, we had several moms or dads who came by themselves and had a great time.  What if you absolutely cannot attend, please buy some gift card raffle tickets and check out the online auction.  The online auction bids will become the starting bids the night of the event, so there is always a chance that you can still be the winner even if you can't come (last year we had 4 online winners for various items).

Here are some pics from last year...

I can't wait to see you Saturday evening!
Lisa