This is the Eakfest Organizing and Planning Web page!

The main purpose of Eakfest is to raise enough money to make CF stand for CURE FOUND!

My friends and family have been having huge Halloween bashes that have affectionately become known as "Eakfest" being that our last name is Eak and it's what one might say if they were to have the poop scared out of them!

My two daughters LOVE these parties! Every year, my husband would say, "ok, this is the last one. It's too much work" but, the girls would pout and Daddy would go through with it yet again.

It all began with a riding lawn mower, a bail of hay and some creative family members. The kids were little and we decided to have a good old fashion Halloween party for them. You know, apple bobbing, donut eating, limbo, etc. The Dad's thought it would be fun to put the kids in the utility trailer and drive them around the yard for a hay ride. Next thing you know, some of the adults were jumping from out behind trees and making the kids scream like crazy. The kids LOVED it!

As the years rolled by, the scaring got more intense and the parties got a bit larger! We would often have more than 100 people in our yard waiting in line to go on a hay ride! We had dessert contests (one year, the winner was a filled bedpan, ewww!) costume contests and of course, all the usual dances for the kids to do; the macarena, the hokey pokey, etc.

In 2006,we had decided that we were passing on our Eakfest tradition to my cousin and his wife but that October, my 12 year old daughter was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. She really wanted to have Eakfest at our house and there wasn't one person who wanted to deny of her anything at that point so we had it here. It was around that time that I thought, "I think that these parties are meant to be our way of fighting this disease. We have so many people that look forward to coming and I'm sure many more would too! We should turn it into a fundraising event!"

Of course, most people think that I'm crazy for taking this on. I guess I am. I have done large events for PTA and Girlscouts and I usually get very pissy while organizing them. But, I think if I could get enough people to help, it could turn into a wonderful thing!

So, I have created this page to recruit people, for now. If it works out, this page will be to spread the word about the bash!

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I guess we'll see what happens! Any takers??