Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Round 9!!

It is time to start signing up for teams again!!!

Here is our person for this round~

This round we are baking for a fellow blogger! Her name is Sarah! She runs the blog: Sweets by Sarah

Here are 2 links on her blog that show all of the people she works with! I thought it was really cool and wanted to share it will all of you!
Day in the Life Part 1
Day in the Life Part 2


Here is a blurb from her email she sent to me:

I am currently in Iraq with Marine Aircraft Group 26. We are a
headquarters unit that supports anywhere from 10-12 squadrons. We are
an fun bunch of people and are making the most of the year that we are
deployed. We are originally stationed at Marine Corps Air Station, New
River in Jacksonville, NC.



As always, if you have any problems or questions, please email me at baking4troops@gmail.com or leave a comment here with a way to contact you!

Thanks again for all your hard work!!!

~Lyndsay (and her mom Pam)

Friday, May 15, 2009

Wraps up Round 7!

This wraps up Round 7 for Richie! Thanks to all those who participated!!! And thank you to DeAnna, his wife, for being patient with me in getting these posted! I am normally not this late in getting them up!!!

Round 8 round up should start sometime next week... I need a lot of people to get back to me before I can start! :-) You know who you are :-)

And Round 9 sign ups start next Friday!!!

Thanks everyone for all that you do!! You are awesome!!!

Team Member - Carol

Carol baked chocolate chip cookies for this round!


Thanks Carol for joining us this round!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Team Member - Joy

Joy baked...
Hello Dolly Bars (7 layer bars)

M&M Cookies

Brown Butter Brown Sugar Shorties

Chocolate Caramel Matzoh Crunch

and here is a picture of her box all ready to go!!

I wanted to say a special thanks to Joy for all of her hard work and research she did to get our "special" bonus round kicked off for round 8!! Thanks Joy!!!

Team Member - Susan

Susan did an awesome job just like every other round! She baked oatmeal raisin, and peanut butter milk chocolate chip. She also included some kettle corn AND of course a pound of coffee from her favorite Starbucks!

Susan also has a website, make sure to check it out! Thanks Susan!

Team Member - Patti

Patti from New York baked this round...
White Chocolate Macadamia cookies and...

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies...

She also included some other store bought cookies and candy!

Thanks Patti for another great round!!

Team Member - Francine

Francine baked Marble Pound Cake (pictured below)and oatmeal cookies....

as well as chocolate chip cookies (pictured below) and lemon sugar cookies!


Thanks Francine for another great round!!

Team Member - June & her son's cub scouts!

Here is a picture of her son's cub scout group who baked this month for Richie! They are holding the card that they made for him!

Here are some of the cookies that they made for him... In their box there was: orange ginger cookies, Peanut Butter, Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Chip, Rice Crispies, Jelly Beans, and Popcorn!

Here is her son making the Rice Crispy treats!


Thank you all so much for participating!

Team Member - Aunt Barb


My aunt baked this round:
Lemon lovers, brownie drops, short breads, and pumpkin raisin spice. She also included in her box: iced tea mixes and magazines!

Thanks Aunt Barb for another great round!

Team Members - Heather & Martha


These 2 members made posts about their experiences on their blogs! Please make sure to check them out!

Heather-

Here is the link to her blog post.

Martha-
Here is the link to her blog post! Make sure to check it out!!

Thank you both so much for doing this!! You are awesome!

Team Members - Kim, Courtney, Chris, Elise, Suzanne, Tarisa, & Alicia

These are team members who didn't send me any pics, but did let me know they shipped! Thanks for doing that! :-) Here is what they sent (if I know)...

Courtney-
She lives in Mass. and is a 2nd grade teacher and had her students make cards for Richie!! Isn't that so sweet?!? And then she baked Chocolate Chip and Cinnamon Sugar Cookies! Yum! I wish we had pics of the cards or of Richie's face reading them! :-) Thanks Courtney!

Chris-
She is from Willow Grove, PA. She baked Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies, Brownies, gum, fruit stickers (gummy candy), Peanut Butter Crackers... And she had her child's 1st grade class make cards as well!! How cool is that?!

Suzanne-
She baked Oatmeal cookies!!

Tarisa-
She baked Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Chip Cookies, M&M Cookies, and Sugar Cookies.

Alicia-
She baked Peanut M&M Cookies, Ginger Cookies, and then filled with other goodies. She had her family help and explained to her kids the importance of our military while they did it!

Thank you all so much for all your hardwork!!!

Round 7 Round Up! Finally! Mom & I!

For this round my mom and I had a little help for our box in more ways than one (I'll explain as we go through these pics...) ...

These are the cut outs that we made:

This is my mom and her helper... She is my good friend's daughter whose dad is in the Navy and currently out to sea for 7 months. My mom and I decided hat we wanted to send a care package to him as well... So we asked my friend if her daughter wanted to help bake for her dad! And she did! And she was an EXCELLENT helper!! She helped us make the chocolate caramel surprise (the ones with the rolos inside)


Here is the candy that went inside of eggs for Easter...

Here are our boxes. 2 went to Richie and one went to my friend's husband. After our article in the paper we had 2 ladies volunteer to help. One lady donated homemade biscottis in 3 different flavors. Another lady baked cut outs as well and then bought sanck packs of peanuts and then gum!



I also contacted the Tabasco company and asked them to donate to our organization. And they did!!! They sent him a whole package of stuff! I am not sure of the details because I didn't hear the specifics, just know they did! Which I think is awesome!




Saturday, May 9, 2009

Shame on me!

I am sorry that I have yet to post Round 7! I promise I will work on it!! This week was much more busy then I expected!! :-) Sinuses were driving me crazy many days this week and I had to decorate a cake and cookies for a party!! I promise I will work on it!! ASAP!! Thank you for being patient! :-) And there is still time for Round 8 to sign up and ship!!