Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Fund Raising, Festival of Colors and Ratty Ranch

This weekend was a super busy one for me. We had a big fund raising "ask event" for the center that I work at. "The Investment of a Lifetime" breakfast was an event to educate the community about our center and give people the opportunity to get involved. For anyone that doesn't know I work at the Famliy Support & Treatment center, where our primary focus is the prevention and treatment of child abuse.

Our breakfast was really fun but took quite a bit of preparing. There was a lot to the event but to simplify the explaining let's just say there were tons of stuffed toys, pin wheels, clients art, musical numbers, slide shows etc. Leslie and I went on Friday night to help set up and then after it was over there was all the awesome clean up. Over all it was a really positive experience.

Later that day I went to the festival of Colors. It was in Spanish Fork at the Hare Krishna temple. It was lots of fun! Tons of people, colored chalk, good food, entertainment etc. Here are some pictures of the event:



The Temple


Mantra Chanting

"The throwing of colors"


I got me some color.

The food was really good, authentic vegetarian Indian Food

Me, Michael, Tyler, Rodney, Leslie and David (We had a good time)


Of course we stopped by and said hi to the llamas.
On the way home from the festival we stopped by Airie and Abram's place to check out the newly completed "Moochies Manor". What a fun place for the Ratties! All I can say is that no one can give me a hard time about "spoiling" Maki anymore ;) I snapped this picture of Moochie lounging.
What a Saturday! Fun, fun fun!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What are you talking about? Maki isn't spoiled. :)

briton said...

looks like the hare krishna place has been vastly improved since the last time I was there, for one of their many other festivals... fun.

Airie said...

This picture of Mooch gives him a chubby look that rivals Maki. ;) Thanks for stopping by and sharing your chalk with us! :)

Erin said...

I always wanted to go to that when I was at BYU and never did. Sad I missed out on so much fun!!

Paula said...

What an interesting event...colorful, musical, foodful, and llamas, what more could you ask for? Do you breathe in a lot of chalk?