The BIG Win!!

Tony's work Christmas party is pretty fun. There is always delicious food, good friends, and of course, the raffle. Now, every year we buy 5 tickets for $20, and every year we win NOTHING. Which is totally fine, but wouldn't it be cool to just win something? Tony is always hopeful that we will win the big prize, which is always some really cool flatscreen tv. We have been wanting a new tv for a very long time, but it just isn't in the budget, you know?

So this year we went to the party (which was at the Embassy Suites in Tigard) and as usual, bought 5 raffle tickets for $20. They started doing the prizes, and lo and behold, we won a night in a newly renovated suite at the Embassy Suites! We were super excited that we finally won something! The next prize raffled off was a Sunriver trip. That would have been cool, but we were happy with our win. The last prize was the tv. A 50 inch LG flat screen tv. The officer doing the drawing drew out a name and promptly asked everyone if they thought that someone who already won something could win the tv. After a bit of a fiasco and lots of yelling, he announced that the name on the ticket was.... BASTINELLI!! WAHOOOOO!! We could not even believe that we had actually won the tv!

After church the next day, Tony and his friends, Mike and Aaron, went to the police station to pick up the tv and came home to set it up. Here is our old, pathetic tv.

How many guys does it take to put up and 50 inch tv, anyway?

And there she is! We are thrilled to have won something so great and will enjoy this tv for years to come!