Stepper-Ette Spaghetti Dinner/Silent Auction

Hello everyone!

I am excited to share the information and photos from last night's event! The Stepper-Ettes host an annual Spaghetti Dinner/Silent Auction and I had the opportunity to serve food, sell raffle tickets, draw for the winners, hang out with the kids, and help facilitate the silent auction! It was a wonderful event and over 600 people were served!

With two of the younger Stepper-Ettes!

The silent auction had some amazing items!

Some of the awesome younger volunteers, gotta love those Stepper-Ettes!

So cute! 

Serving was my favorite "job" of the night, it is more fun when you get to interact with everyone and be social! The Spaghetti was also very yummy!

With my dad, he works SO hard for the Stepper-Ettes!

Getting ready for the 50/50 raffle!

With Dae! She is a joy to work with at the studio!

And the drawing..

The winner! She was so happy!

My station for most of the night was the 50/50 raffle table!

Serving salad with Sierra, one of my twirling students!

Her name is Rachel too! :)

WIth Miss Heartland, Kim Brennan. Kim and I have had such a great time attending events together this spring! Looking forward to sharing more moments with her!

Dancing with some of the kids after the dinner!

Overall, the event was a huge success! It is always a ton of fun to help out at the Stepper-Ette events where I can see lots of familiar faces! Now looking forward to three more weeks of training for the world championships and for Miss Nebraska Orientation!! Can't wait for everything that is coming up! I will make sure to keep everyone updated on my events and travels!

Thanks for reading!

Rachel

Miss Lincoln

Special Olympics Breakfast of Champions!

Good afternoon!

This morning I had the amazing opportunity to volunteer at the Special Olympics Breakfast of Champions! It was so amazing to meet all of the athletes and sponsors for this amazing organization. I learned a lot this morning about what Special Olympics Nebraska has to offer, and I was beyond inspired. Seeing the great turnout for this event was also very inspiring for me! I am so glad that I (along with Kim Brennan, Miss Heartland) had the opportunity to give our time to such an amazing organization.

Here we are with some of the athletes that we had the pleasure of meeting! We had so much fun with them this morning welcoming people to the event! They had a lot of energy for 7am!

Here are Macy and Beth, two of the younger athletes for Special Olympics Nebraska. They were both a little shy, but they were amazing girls and so much fun to hang out and play with this morning at the event! We had a lot of fun talking to Beth's mother, Lisa, a former Miss Missouri!

Kim and I welcomed people to the event and showed them to their seats, we never knew a volunteer opportunity like that would change our lives so much, but we were both so inspired that we are eager to spend more time with the Special Olympics organization in the near future!

Here I am with two of the other volunteers, they were from Lincoln too!

All in all, waking up at 5a.m. to volunteer at this event was beyond worth it. I am so glad that I had the opportunity to meet and chat with so many of the athletes and can't wait to see some of them again very soon! Kim and I kept saying how inspiring the event was and we decided that we would like to hold a baton twirling event for the athletes in the future! I would like to thank Katie Dischler and PlanIt Omaha, as well as Special Olympics Nebraska for allowing Kim and I to volunteer this morning!

Now onto more Miss Nebraska paperwork and preparations, as well as school work and three more weeks of preparing for the Baton Twirling World Championships! 

Until next time,

Rachel

Miss Lincoln