The Wrap up

For all the years that we've done the lutefisk supper, Sharon, her husband (Glen - in next picture) and brother (Mike) have organized and supervised and spent lots and lots and lots of time putting it all together.  With the death of Mike, we wondered how we would pull it off as he kept a lot of what he organized in his head.  But Glen and Sharon's daughter, Gina, agreed to co-chair and  spent a lot of time getting everything down on paper and in pictures.  

   And here's what the fuss is all about!  I bet you can just about smell it!  Again-sorry no scratch and sniff...what a money maker that would be!

   Here's my two co-partners in washing dishes... Jean and Gary.  We always wonder how many times the same serving dish goes through the dishwater!

   This year we gave out lots of prizes.  For the first person and every 150th, we gave a basket FULL of goodies!  We had so many prizes that they handed them out every 25-50 people.  Here Nancy giving one to our first guest with Nick's (our youth director) help.  And yes, that is a party hat on his head....it's our 150th anniversary!

  Ah yes--the clean up.  Everything has to be taken down, cleaned up and put away.  It helps when there are fresh people to do this.  Especially in the kitchen.  Even though we fairly well keep up with the dishes, at the last there seems to be an avalanche of them.  All those butter dishes from the tables and pitchers and coffee pots and........
  So another year wrapped up!  All the profits goes to support missions...that's the best part.  The other good part, I won't be blogging about lutefisk for another year!!
             Jolyn