On Monday, February 14, Mended Little Hearts held our 1st Annual Valentine Party to raise awareness for congenital heart defects. We spent a lot of time working on this event to pull everything together. In the end, it was a huge success and we are really happy with how it all turned out.
The event was held at the Sierra Health Foundation. This is an organization that provides a venue to organizations that have a non-profit status and are health-related. This was a huge benefit for us as we did not have enough money to rent a facility. We also received a sponsorship from the Children's Center at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. These sponsorships of money and in-kind donations were what made this event possible! We also had some volunteer's from Kohl's department store help out with sign in and crafts.
We had over 120 people come through, more than 25 people donate blood and lots of children tour the ambulance brought by American Medical Response. Despite our attempts to get media attention and have them cover the story, the only people that came out were from Sacramento Magazine. We were happy to have them there to take pictures and report about our party. I believe the article is going to in the April issue. 
The BloodSource Bloodmobile
The wonderful crew from American Medical Response: Will & Hailey. They were awesome!
Kyler and his friend Brayden playing in the ambulance (Brayden is pretending to be scared!)
Party-goers enjoyed chili and cornbread. For the kids, there were a lot of yummy options including quesadillas, applesauce cups, jello cups, PB&J sandwiches cut into heart shapes and popcorn. And for dessert, lots of adorable valentine-theme decorated cupcakes. It was such a treat!
All the delicious food
Yummy cupcakes!
I am so happy everything went so well and I am also glad it is over. I was completely exhausted by the end of the night! Thank you to everyone who made this event happen and especially those who came out and gave blood. What a great way to celebrate Valentine's Day! 
Me with Gina & Andrea
Kyler putting together his picture frame craft
The finished product
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valentine Party
Posted by Carey at 8:00 PM
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Great Post! Thank you for all your efforts! Good pics too:)
Looking back at this I remember having a good time. I even had a large needle in my arm part of the afternoon. Thanks again for all you did setting this up.
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