Trivia Night: Winner, Winner, Pasta Dinner

On Friday night, we had our annual dinner/family fun night at the school, the one I have organized the past three years.

This year, we couldn't play bingo, because the local PTA was informed about a law banning minors from being present with gambling. So, I switched gears and created a Trivia Night, using questions submitted by the teachers. That way,the students, including the younger ones, would have a shot at getting the answers.

We had teenaged helpers again, serving food from Presto Pasta.

Kelly and Yass were our MCs, and you can see all the prizes to the left. We raffled off more than two dozen prizes off at the end of the night, and people could either buy raffle tickets or win them by answering questions correctly.

Here's Jake, Shayan, Sophia, Trent and Cora - all their parents were very helpful with the event. 

It was so fun listening to the kids eagerly discuss different answer possibilities, and then celebrate when the correct answers were read out. There was a definite buzz in the room!

We had about 90 people attend.

The buzz continued when the prizes were raffled off. 

Christina won a family prize pack of free kids meals and pottery painting.

At the end of the night, Kelly pulled the winning ticket out for the grand prize, a $50 gift card to the mall. Lo and behold, Jake won it!

At the end of the night, Kelly pulled the winning ticket out for the grand prize, a $50 gift card to the mall. Lo and behold, Jake won it!

It was a fun evening, and of course, I was very glad when it was all over. It's fun helping put on an event, but I'm always glad to have them finished. This is probably my last school event like this, because I won't have Jen to help gather prizes next year. Trent will be in junior high.

Birthday and Trivia Fun

On Cora's birthday morning, she opened up one of her birthday gifts from us - a makeup kit!

If you had told me a year ago that she would even want a makeup kit, I never would have believed you. But she has become a young lady in recent months. (And no, in case you're wondering, she won't be wearing full makeup in the coming months, but on special occasions, we'll let her dabble.)

We also gave Cora roller blades, as she's outgrown her current pair. So that's more of a normal Cora gift.

On Sunday afternoon, Cora and I took a trip to the mall, where she spent her gift card from Nan and Pop at Sephora. We had a great time together! I'm seeing some of the joy in having big girls.

Jake gave Cora the Captain Marvel Pop Funko, along with a gift card for a PS4 game she likes playing at their house.

On Tuesday evening, we went to a trivia night at a local restaurant, to conduct "research" for our school's upcoming trivia night. We met up with friends who will be helping at the event next month.  

Yass and Kell were going to join us, but Charlie wasn't feeling well, so we took Jake with us. Thank goodness - the girls would have been bored after a while, and probably arguing with each other, but with Jake along, they all contentedly played Connect Four.

 The kids also answered a few questions for us, and Jake almost won us a pitcher of beer.

Each team sent up a representative to play a simple card game - guessing if the next card drawn would be higher or lower than the card in the host's hand.

Jake ended up second to the last player! Not that the few adults we had could have drunk a whole pitcher, as the night was almost over.

In the end, our team, the Stars (after the school's mascot), won the trivia contest by one point! It was a lot of fun, and we won a $25 gift card for the next time we come to play.