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<\/a><\/p>\nThe project?<\/strong> We helped set up the North Pole Winter Carnival at Child Start<\/a>‘s Polar Express Literacy Event. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The trickiest part was building the train display with no instructions. <\/p>\n
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Mike was super proud of the fake wood wall that he and Mel built. <\/p>\n
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He’s showing it off in this photo with Faith’s husband (left).<\/p>\n
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They didn’t need our help with the main event area. Our group’s focus was setting up and decorating the game room, which I actually thought was the fun part. <\/p>\n
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I really wish we could have attended the event and seen the kids enjoy the carnival games. Brian and I had another party to attend that evening, otherwise I would have totally dragged him with me. Had I planned the weekend better, I could have taken Nickira to the event. I think she would have enjoyed it. <\/p>\n
I hope Child Start holds the event again next year. Nickira is getting to close to that age where she might think it’s a little bit childish but I really think she would enjoy it. I hope I can take her next year because it will be the final one before she’s officially a teenager. I saw some pictures of the event on the Child Start Facebook page<\/a> and it looked like a blast. I’m really bummed that I missed it. <\/p>\n
At least we got to help set up. I just love volunteering for stuff like this. It warms my heart. The best part is the $1000 donation from the Westar Energy Foundation to match our team building volunteer service hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are some pictures from the team building volunteer service activity that I organized a couple of weeks ago. I’m so grateful for my amazing coworkers who gave up part of their holiday weekend to help out. The project? We helped set up the North Pole Winter Carnival at Child Start‘s Polar Express Literacy Event. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,180,262],"tags":[2832,1992,2280,1701,1451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15812,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}