Saving the World from Illiteracy... One Person At a Time!

Ya'll - I work for the best company in the world! Actually, we were voted one of the BEST companies to work for in Texas for the past 2 years straight!

Our company strongly encourages involvement in the community and volunteer work. One of the ways that we do this collectively, is that we participate in the annual Literacy Council of East Texas Spelling Bee - and every year - we go in costume.

In 2011 - we were nerds! "Nerds for Words" was our motto. LOL

In 2012 - we went as the cast from Hee-Haw - but I was on my honeymoon, so I missed it! *sad face*

This year - we went as SUPERheros! And ya'll - we didn't hold back!!

Out of all the characters to choose - I decided to be cheap. It also didn't help that I completely forgot about the event until the day before!

So I rushed home - grabbed a couple pieces of fancy paper from Michaels and a roll of ribbon - and this is what I came up with:

I should probably mention at this point - that the cape material and the mask were provided by the company. Yep - literally - I bought some yellow ribbon for a belt, some black velvet paper for the "Robin" logo - and some sparkly gold paper for the "R" and the belt buckle. Ha!

Now that's what I call creativity in a SNAP! BAM! POW!

There were quite a few people who decided to come as Batman - but yours truly was the one and only Robin. SPLAT! BOOM! And it's a good thing too -- with that many Bat-womans running around - I had a lot of side-kick-in' to do!

I love how creative the people I work with are. We just march to the beat of our own drum... BLESS OUR HEARTS. We don't just impersonate super-heros past.... we create our OWN super-heros! One of my friends came as "Wonder Kat".... and another was "Ms Sparkle".

Dont tell anyone - but we even had the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up!

And our math team - created their own math superheros - one was a right angle - and she insisted that she was always right. Haha - get it? Another was congruent - and she gawked at being the same size and shape all of her life. LOL. Creative isn't it!?  WE'RE SUCH GEEKS.

Yep - I love us. It's official! I have the greatest teammates - and the best bosses on the planet. I can't wait to see what we come up with for next years Spelling Bee! Toodles!