Wow!

Today several of my worlds collided-- or would aligned be a better word? It was sooooo amazing!!

My church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka the Mormon church) conducted a nation-wide service project through an organization of our church called "Helping Hands." I was delighted to find out that my particular stake (Pasadena) was volunteering at the Pasadena Earth Day! Not only that, this event was held at and sponsored by the Armory center for the Arts where my girls take their art classes! I had not even planned to attend because I was already planning to meet Brieanne and Eric at an Art Festival up at the Waldorf school. But then I thought I would stop by to check it out. Thank goodness I did, it was amazing! The first thing I saw before I even parked, were two missionaries on Colorado Blvd. handing out flyers trying to get people to come up to it.











When I actually got there, I was surrounded by tons of my church friends, and then many of the eco-friendly organizations I love to support. The organic green truck was there with their yummy food. One of the first things we did was make cute little magnets from old magnets--the girls glued little embellishments on them. Path to Freedom and Freedom Gardeners were there! I LOVED seeing my homegirls, Jordanne and Anais. We had a good time talking about chickens because Jordanne is an expert! And they had pizza baking in a solar oven, which was so cool. It was such an amazing mix of my worlds! Even the missionaries who taught and baptized Brieanne and Eric were there and it was so wonderful to see them! Thank heavens Brieanne and Eric were up visiting so they were able to come meet us too and see their missionaries! It was neat to be able to introduce Brieanne to Jordanne because they have so much in common. The missionaries were manning a booth where they were making pots out of folded newspaper and then kids could come and fill them with dirt and plant poppy or sunflower seeds!

There were lots of booths that were educating on how to better care for our earth through recycling, saving electricity, saving water, etc.

I could hardly leave because there were so many people to talk to. And I was just so excited that our church was supporting an Earth day event!

But we finally left to go up to the Art Festival in Altadena. It was a great event too--beautiful arts and crafts. My girls had a blast playing with Tristan who they miss very much since she moved. I wish I would have taken pictures of them playing! But Brieanne and I were too busy admiring all the art. What a great day!