Meeting Minutes 11.6.12

                                                                    Meeting Minutes
                                                                           11.6.12
We had a great meeting with lots if information this month.

Janelle, Apryl, and Joy went to National Convention this year. If you would like a T-shirt please get with Janelle. The crew neck is $10 and available in large and x-large. The V-neck is $11 and available in small and medium. They also have coffee mugs that are $10 each.

*Upcoming Events

-Playgroup this week will be Monday the 12th at Color Me Mine on 41st and Yale. Jessica will post the invite with all the info on fb. There is no seating fee on Monday, just the price of the pottery. There is no playgroup for the week of Thanksgiving.

-Thanksgiving Dinner will be the 15th at 6pm. If you would like to bring a dessert that would be great. The pies will be donated. We will have dinner with all the fixings, door prizes, and fun activities for the kids. Hope to see everyone there.

-Meals for Finals will be Dec. 3rd thru the 6th. We will have Spaghetti with salad and garlic bread, Crockpot Day (soups), Chili w/ the fixings, and Brinner (breakfast for dinner). If you would like help with this please let us know. Thanks.

-The next Girls Night Out will be November the 27th at Pinot Pallet. Great time to get together just us girls.

-Walli Daniel is hosting Christmas Tea on Dec. 1st at 11:30. There will be a hat contest which is optional. childcare will be provided at Allison Johnston home. Spouses are welcome. It will be $10 per person who is not SAA. Please let us know if you would like to attend.

*Promoting Manvocates
-Bowling Night Jan. 12th.

*If you would like to Sail Away with the SAA Feb 2nd-9th deposits are due Monday Nov. 12th and the final payment is due Nov. 19th. Deposits are $250 and completely refundable until the day before final payment. Deposit does toward the final payment. Families are more than welcome.
  -Prices are as follows: Inside cabin $520 pp, Ocean View $570 pp, and Balcony is $770 pp.
Fundraiser! $50 per cabin for organization. Please get with Janelle if you would like to go.

*The next meeting will be December 4th at 7:30. It will be at Janelle's and we will be doing a Cookie exchange and a gift exchange. The budget for the gifts will be $10.

Attendance:

Apryl Pritchett, Jami Levitt, Kimberly Smith, Kirsten Griffin, Andrea Clark, Jessica Owens, Airika Robins, Crystal Moore, Amber Wilson, Chanel Raines, Allison Johnston, Kelly Smith, Janelle Norman, and Britney Ramkaran.

Thanks,
Britney R.

Spook-O-Ween

Well Spook-O-Ween 2012 has come and gone.  Its hard to believe it's already over.  We had so much fun and I honestly wouldn't have been able to pull it off with all of my AWESOME volunteers!!!  I can't go without saying how awesome the students did this year.  We set up boxes every year for candy donations and they exceeded, we had TONS of candy.

Thank you so much!!

I'll just give you the highlights of the night...

*Plenty of Food*

*Hooray for POPCORN*

(Thanks Kari!)

*Yummy Treats*

Amber Wilson (MSIII) and Bekah Petersen (MSIV) went all out with their cupcakes.

Monsters & Spiders

*Great Turn Out*

The Owens (MSIII)

Andrea Clark (MSI) & Chanel Raines (MSII)

The Priddles (MSIII)

Janelle Norman (MSIII) & Airika Robins (MSIII)

All the carnival games went over really well.

*Fishing*

*Duck Pond*

*Bowling*

*Ring Toss*

 A few of my wonderful volunteers.

Kirsten Griffin (MSI), Kari Ransdell (MSII), Allison Johnston (MSII) 

If they weren't entertained by the games we also had 2 JumpJumps set up.

Andrew (MSIII) got some cuddles from Miss Afton.

Lots of cool costumes! 

One of our members, Jami Leavitt (MSI), was so gracious to set up a little station for everyone to get their picture taken.  She did a great job!!  You can see the photos here.

We missed some people, as they had already headed home, but here's a good bit of the SAA members who were there.

Such a fun night, can't wait till next year.  ;)

-Janelle

National Convention

As you may know this last week was the National Convention, in SAN DIEGO!  The convention was great and there's a lot that I could tell you about the trip, here are the highlights...

*The Scenery*

*The Food*

Kansas City BBQ, where the piano scene of Top Gun was filmed.

*The Entertainment*

 Cool receptions with floating acrobats and live bands.

The Zoo!!

 

Joan Embery and her slew of animals.

*The Education*

Learning about being an advocate from the national level and sitting in on their meetings was a great experience.

*Extracurricular Activities*

Advocate Fun Run  

*New Friends & Old*

Oh Walli...

After each SAA group gave their reports on what they're are doing to be advocates at their schools, we started exchanging ideas.  We then decided we would love to be able to do this throughout the year and thus decided to start a National SAA fanpage on facebook.  Check it out HERE.  Feel free to comment and join in the conversation.

-Janelle

Meeting Minutes 10.2.12

                                                               Meeting Minutes
                                                                      10.2.12

Walli Daniel, AOOA President and Donna Cannon joined our meeting. We enjoyed having you both. Thank you ladies!

Walli spoke to us on what it is to be an advocate and shared her story. Thank you!

  Upcoming events:

*Snack Days for the students will be Oct. 15-19th. Fruit, Veggie, and Meat trays, etc. are great. You may leave them in the break room upstairs.

*OktoberFest is Oct. 17-19. We still need volunteers Wednesday and Friday 4 to 7:30 and Thursday 7:30 to close. We also need a volunteer to babysit the kids on Wednesday 4 to 5:30. Please let us know if you can help. If you do bring your children, please bring food for them.

*Spook-O-Ween is Friday Oct. 26th. Please come and enjoy the games and snacks. Any candy donations are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

*Girls Night Out will be Tuesday , Oct. 23rd. Place and time TBD

*Playgroups: There is a thread on the fb page for afternoon playgroups. If you are interested please have a look. Also, the Pumpkin Patch playgroup will be this month so keep a lookout for that. Great photos of the kids!!

 AOOA Sponsored Events:

*Tulsa University Tailgate Party. It will be $10/person. This includes everything for the night. Please bring your families. Everyone will have a great time!

*OSU Medical Center Doctor Appreciation Oct. 25th. We need 4-5 volunteers. We will have food and drinks to show how much we appreciate the Doctors.

The next meeting will be November 6th @ 6:30. Donna Cannon will be joining us. Hope to see everyone there.

 Thanks,
Britney R.

Attendance:
 Donna Cannon, Walli Daniel, Kimberly Smith, Chanel Raines, Brittany Fisher, Kirsten Griffin, Britney Ramkaran, Susan Evilsizer, Terri Priddle, Amber Wilson, Allison Johnston, Joy Vedros, Bekah Petersen, Jami Leavitt, Janelle Norman, Apryl Pritchett, and Crystal Moore.