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!

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!

Our Round 7!

We found this guy from when my mom and I mailed our last rounds boxes! We ended up talking to his brother in line... and told him what we did... he mentioned his brother, we said to email us and we would love to send him stuff... by the time we got home he had talked to his sister-in-law and she had emailed me with information on her husband!!

So here is a bio about our man:

Richie is 25 years old. He joined the Army in March of 2003. He went to basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC and then on to Advanced Individual Training (ait) at Ft. Lee, VA. That is where he and his wife met (She was also in the army for 2 years). After graduating from AIT, he went to Airborne School in Ft. Benning, GA. From there he got stationed at Ft. Bragg where he has been ever since. He got deployed for the first time from November 2003 to April 2004. They got married May 9, 2004. Then they found out they were pregnant with their first child - son Colson - in April of 06. He got deployed for the 2nd time in August, came home for his 2 week R & R at the end of November to December 11. Colson was born Dec. 5. He then was gone until October 23 when he came home again. Now this third deployment (all to Iraq) he left on Dec 4 of 2008. He is a sergeant and has been for about a year now. His MOS (job) is a fuel supply specialist. He is great at his job and is very knowledgeable.

He love soccer!!!!!!!!!!! loves to play and loves to watch - especially the premier league in England. we got hooked when watching the world cup in 06. his favorite team is Manchester United. but he is one to watch all sports - from tennis, golf, to football, baseball, basketball - all of them.
He enjoys watching movies and video games.
He was born in New York, New York - moved to St. Petersburg, FL when he was 6 and would very much love to retire there.
He really enjoys working out - like serious muscle building and likes to read the muscle and mens health magazines....

Our only request that we have is that you try and send out later in the round versus right at the 1st because he is on mission working somewhere else but is supposed to be back by the end of March, but just in case... we want to ship a little later!

Thanks for looking and hope to have you baking,
Lyndsay

Any questions, please email me at Baking4Troops @ gmail.com