Super Hero Pep Rally & Walkathon...

This is my second year being the PTA president for the boys school. It is still strange to type those words, as never in a million years did I think I would do it not only once, but twice. But...on the other hand, I am so glad that I did it and did it again this year. It has been such a great experience for me out of my comfort zone!
It has kind of taken over a lot of my time the past month and a half because we had our big fundraiser for the year a few weeks after school started because we didn't have a fundraiser last year.
Anyway we did our big Walkathon like we have done in years past and we had to pull it together and plan it really quickly. Within 2 weeks actually. My treasurer Mindee was in charge of it for the most part, but I helped her every step of the way and like I said it took up A LOT of our time.

We started off with a really fun Super Hero pep rally to get the kids excited and to explain how it was all going to work. So we did a little skit with fun music all in our super hero costumes. It was a blast! And so fun to see how much the kids all loved it! Out theme was Be Your Own Super Hero and GO BIG...

And I have to say that I think our pep rally really contributed to how successful the walkathon ended up being.

Anyway some pictures from that day...

 My favorite...I asked Jana to take a picture of Gunnar and me and clearly he was a tiny bit embarrassed of me...running away!

We also had all of our fun prizes to show the kids, including a couple of Kendamas...

...which if I have not mentioned it before are the biggest thing to hit the boys school since yo-yos and rubix cubes last year!
I got these fun toys for Ashton and Gunnar for Christmas last year, and they played with them for awhile at home and at school. But this year it has been crazy to walk down the halls of the school and see every other kid swinging one around! They are all obsessed with them! 

So last minute I told my pta members that we had to give out Kendamas as some of our prizes and we decided to give one to each kid that brought in $75 or more. You should have seen the looks on their faces when we announced that! And I have to say that was one of our other big contributors to our success!
Pictures from the Walkathon...

The first day we had it scheduled for it rained hard all day long,

so we moved it to the next week and it was a beautiful sunny day.

Everyone had a great time and Ashton and Gunnar ran so hard!

So proud of them :)

And after finally wrapping it all up this week and counting all of the money, we raised over $11,000!!

We just need to have a final assembly tomorrow to give out prizes.
Oh and about 75 kids earned a Kendama!

Glad to have it done and that it went so well :)