A Better Beginning Benefit Concert

One of the things I love about this blogging/social media world, is that it allows us to share in each other’s trials and tragedies and lend support and assistance to one another in times of need. Sometimes it is hard to be aware of so much sadness and difficulty in the world, but it always […]

Getting Together For a Good Cause

Plans are coming together nicely for our second bloggers get together on June 17th @ Sweet Cakes in Mesa, Arizona. We will be featuring the fabulous party planners from The Tom Kat Studio & Maddy Cakes Muse, as well as the talented Laura Winslow from Laura Winslow Photography.   One of the reasons we are […]

Sweet Charity: Kate McRae

This is Kate McRae- isn’t she a doll? Big, bright eyes and a contagious smile. From the first time I read about this sweet little 7 year old, Kate stole my heart. Today, with permission from Kate’s mom, we (Stephanie, Kristyn, and I) have decided to post about Kate’s story on each of our blogs to show […]

Big-Hearted Holidays–The Farnsworth Family

My friend, Ashleigh, passed away Sept. 28, 2009. She was only 28 and left behind a husband and four young children (Sarah-5, Lucas and Alex-3, and Audrey-2). She had only been diagnosed with colon cancer for a month, but it was an aggressive and wide-spread cancer. She chose to fight back aggressively with chemo treatments, […]

Big Hearted Holidays–The Blaser Family

I had only recently gotten to know the Blaser family, when Clint passed away. Jackie is one of the moms on the MomTimeTV show, and the Blasers had generously offered their home for the filming of several episodes. Spending time in their home that day, I felt like I knew them. They seemed to have […]

Big Hearted Holidays–IMPORTANT

This fall, my heart was broken, not once, but twice in the same week as two of my friends were taken from their families. My heart broke as my friend, Ashleigh, a mother of 4 very young children lost a short battle with colon cancer. Later that week, I received word that Clint, the husband […]

Blogging it forward

I’m thinking most of you have seen this by now, but since it is for a good cause, and The Hostess told me to, I am “blogging it forward”: Let’s Eat Cake, an amazing fundraiser hosted by the equally amazing Melissa Margarita-DiStefano, is coming up quick: Tuesday, February 17th at the Plaza Paramount Hotel! Let’s […]