Yesterday our family attended our very first Starlight Children’s Foundation event. The Starlight Children’s Foundation provides education, entertainment and activities to seriously ill children and their families. The Starlight Children’s Foundation recognizes the strain of a sick child on the entire family and works to bring a little joy and relaxation to everyone. Apollo was approved for the program last fall, but the irony was the very condition that qualified him was the very reason we had to keep him out of public places- so we couldn’t actually attend any events! Everyone was excited about yesterday’s adventure to California Pizza Kitchen.
Apollo was completely enthralled with Starry, Starlight’s mascot.
California Pizza Kitchen opened its door to us an hour early. First thing on the agenda was making our own pizzas.
If you know me well, you know I’m a huge pizza fan! I mean, a huge fan of pizza. Also a fan of huge pizza. You get the idea.
Someone was happy to be out of the house…and not seeing a doctor!
After our pizza-making we got a full tour of the kitchen. One of my children pointed out that California Pizza Kitchen uses the exact same storage containers we use! I bet they saw that recent photo of my fridge…
The kitchen tour included seeing the oven where our pizzas were being cooked. Awesome!
Some of us were a bit excited about our pizzas…
Apollo was game to tackle his (cheese-less) pizza…though he really just ate the pepperoni then asked for mine.
Thank you so much to the Starlight Children’s Foundation and California Pizza Kitchen for giving our family a fabulous time!
I’m going to save the rest of the day’s adventure for another blog post.
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What an awesome time! Those pizzas looked yummy!
What a nice time!! It’s great to see Apollo enjoying food. God is so good.
Do you have a post about your kitchen set up and pantry. Also how do you plan a menu? And do you have a favorite cookbook/books? Thank you for sharing your life and family with us.
Chrisitine- I actually have several posts about those topics. I’ll dig them up and repost!
What a fun adventure for your kids. So delighted to see Apollo looking so healthy and happy. Keeping your family in my prayers.
I love the grin that Avi has as she’s waiting until she can eat the pizza in front of her.
Your family is so adorable! It is awesome that you got to have so much fun out of the house 🙂 Hope you had a Happy Monday – I loved reading your post!