successful weekend

This weekend was quite busy with a scrapbook workshop and the Kids 'n' Us conference back to back. Well I got pretty busy with all the last minute work to be done for the conference so I didn't get around to sending my monthly scrapbook workshop reminder emails. Thus we had only 6 people come on Friday evening. This was really nice though cause we got to sit, talk and really get to know some new people. I was working on finishing up some goodie bags to give out at the conference and I honestly thought it would take me all night so I didn't bring any of my scrapbook stuff. With the help of my dh and two boys - the work went soo quickly that I ran out of stuff to do half way through the evening. That worked out nicely though cause I did some scrapbooking done for a couple other ladies instead. It is fun scrapbooking on other people's pictures every once and awhile. They were happy to have the extra help so it was all roses. Even though we all went home early (10 pm instead of midnight) - I was still up till 1 am with last minute details. Off to bed I dragged to be awakened by the alarm at 6:30 am. With the adrenaline pumping I packed up all the stuff to go - including the boys and their stuff and we all headed out to the Chateau Louis. With so many fantastic volunteers (including most of my extended family) the day went fairly smoothly and I think that everyone was quite happy. We had a TV station show up part way through the day too. I had collected an amazing amount of door prizes from local business', so approx 1/3 of the attendees got some kind of prize along with their goodie bags and the samples given out by our 12 vendors. My kids were soo excited that Costco was giving out Star Wars pens - I think my one son went back 3 times to trade his for a different character cause he just couldn't make up his mind...I had to stop him from going again...
I am very glad that the day is done - I came home Saturday and crashed! It was a success and that is what matters. Now I need to coordinate the thank you cards and I'm told in a couple of weeks the planning begins again for next year! I would reccommend this event to any family who has a member dealing with Juvenile Diabetes!!
I have been meeting with a few couples booking into 2008 already! These young people are on the ball with their planning. I haven't had the contracts signed yet but I do look forward to working with them as each of their weddings sound really great!