St Patrick's Day 5k and Kids In The Kitchen

Saturday Morning was a big Morning for the Junior League of Bell County. We partnered with Scott and White along Children's Miracle Network and hosted a St Patrick's Day 5k run and Kids run along with our leagues Kids in the Kitchen ( KITK) event. All I can say is it was a HUGE success. Our League's awesome community council has been working on this event since the Fall! It all started on Thursday with preparing race packets to handing out race packets on Friday night at S&W to the big race on Saturday. I was thrilled that I was able to participate in all of these wonderful events.
Last year we helped with this event but not as much as we did this year. Last year they had a little over 400 participants and this year we had 911 participants!!!!!!!!! As of last night the total amount of money raised was $25,000 that will all go to the Children's Miracle Network! I will say that we surpassed all of our goals.
KITK is a wonderful event that is a nation wide program for the Junior League. Our goal is to teach healthy eating habits to kids. We set up a booth on Saturday and we had so many kids come and make healthy snacks with us. There were so many fun events for kids that Morning. I signed up to work the KITK booth and I loved every minute of it. The kids were adorable and I loved the hands on experience. JLBC Board Members at 6am on Saturday Morning ready to work. Only missing 3 of our members.
Check out this amazing group of volunteers.

Meal Comparison

Community Council- Jennifer, Jen, and Sally. These women worked so hard on this wonderful event! It was a huge success because of all of their hard work.

These are the snacks we made with the kids. Bunnies and Spider sandwiches. So cute.

Me and Pam. (Pam is Community VP)

Maggie and Clark making a bunny to snack on.

What a wonderful event! I am already looking forward to next year!