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March/April 2012 Birthday Celebrations
Time flies, I need to play catch-up. We have had six wonderful parties in March and April thanks to the following people:
Colfax Community Network: Max the Magnificent (our friend Max Davidson who wowed our children with his feats of magic), Bibiana Aguila for such beautiful and delicious cupcakes, Jin Lohmeier, who shows up at every party and is my rock, Mickie Archuleta for her wonderful crafts and support, Nathan and Kelly from CCN who help us so much with the parties and do all those crazy games that we might be too old to accomplish (think mini-trampoline!). Celebrating birthdays with Rayna, Gabriel and Ginessa was a special treat for us.
The Gathering Place: The Junior League with help from Ian at TGP provided the cakes, we gave the ladies reading glasses in March and Kathy Krajewski provided the April gift of the cutest washcloths made to look like rabbits holding soap ( Wow, I feel so un-crafty around these people). Of course, the children all had their choice of gifts and I never have one piece of candy left. Again thank you Jin, Mickie and Lisa Kutner for your help.
Lowry, Alton Way and Blue Spruce: These big parties keep getting bigger. 14 birthdays in all. Thank you to Willie and Claudia Lawrence for the wonderful balloon art and face painting, Keyonyu O'Connell and Erin Rule for delivering (this is huge for me!) 5 doz cupcakes to each location. It is a mixed blessing that there is never one cupcake left for me to eat...you know, just to sample. The Junior League came to Blue Spruce with their puppet show, Kids on the Block and had those children yelling out names of all the best vegetables! Who Knew? Volunteers Christy Fish and sister Kerry, and Claudette Kelly, along with regulars Mickie, Jin, and Lisa, kept a total of 80 children happy, fed and tired, and, in April, manicured and beaded!
DRUM ROLL PLEASE: The Denver Cycle Sluts raised $1,574 for Birthday Smiles in March, we had a blast at Bingo. Thank you to those wonderful guys. The ECHO Foundation of Northrop Grumman donated over $900 and I can't thank Karen Gutierrez enough for all the support through this process. She is definitely one of our Angels. Centennial Christian Academy made over 60 party bags and donated supplies to keep these parties fun for the children. Thank you Sharon Davis!
Cornerstone Christian Academy continues to provide artwork for our dreary walls so we have a festive place to celebrate. So many individuals donated money to us in the last month that we had our highest donation month ever. I am breathing a little easier, but we still have so much to do. Helping keep the children happy and healthy this summer is high on our list, and we will be working with our 4 locations to see how we can better partner with them.
Thank you all for keeping our candles lit,
Risë
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Birthday Smiles
