Lemonade Stand for Sister

The boys have been BEGGING me all summer to let them have a lemonade stand to help raise money for the adoption. I finally put a date on the calendar and committed to it. It seems like every week is so busy that I couldn’t make time to help them with it. I’m so glad we did it! It was a great experience for the kids and I was so proud of them for having such big hearts.

Here’s the boys getting ready to head out on their bikes to put up fliers in the neighborhood.

 

Daddy helped Braden make the sign

Squeezing that many lemons is hard work!!

I baked over 200 homemade cookies in 5 varieties. If you didn’t get any, I have to say that you missed out. They were GOOD!!

All set up and waiting for customers

 

Customer!!!! And this customer/super cool uncle loves him some cookies, so they were in luck!!

We had a couple buddies come over to hang out and help. I’ll have to post a video of these crazies and how they were attempting to bring in business. It actually worked, though! Cutie pies!

Rhettster’s job was to pour the lemonade in the cups. He loved it! We even had sliced lemons to add to each cup of lemonade and also offered frozen strawberries and/or blueberries to be added as well. It was a hit. And SUPER delicious, if I may say so myself.

We didn’t have that many customers, but thanks to some generous donors (you know who you are, thank you!) they ended up making $65! I had LOTS of cookies left over so we brought a bucket of cookies to both our shop and Gracie’s preschool and ended up making another $20 off cookie sales! So that’s a grand total of $85!

Way to go Kids! I’m so proud that your Sister already has such a special place in your hearts! She’s going to be 1 BLESSED little girl to have two big brothers and a big sister like you.