Happy Birthday Surprise weekend to me! Day 2 Part 1 - 2025/06/27

Theresa gathered all my family in Los Angeles for a birthday surprise! It was a big surprise to me because it wasn't my birthday for another month! But it's actually Megan's birthday today! 

Happy Surprise Birthday to me! - 2025/06/26

I've taken a break from blogging over the summer, but we're going to jump ahead a little bit in the summer to this story. 

We'd finished the Pasadena Chalk Festival, hung out at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and had just arrived back in Manhattan Beach at the hotel for the night. 

The next morning, Theresa said she got a text from the front desk that we'd need to move rooms.

Theresa - Let's go check out the room before we have to move all our stuff. 

Well that's odd, but okay. 

2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival - All the other artists - 2025/06/15

We had a fun time at the 2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival. 

We made our mural "Grogu Goes To Hogwarts" and had a lot of fun with it. There were so many other artists at the festival this year. I tried to get pictures of all of them. I'll post them here without too many comments on my part. There's 180 photos on this post, so I suspect it will take a little while to load. 

2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival - Silent Auction - 2025/06/15

As part of being an artist at the Pasadena Chalk Festival, you're highly encouraged to donate a canvas for the festival to raise money for the Lightbringer Project, a group that helps bring art to underserved kids in the community. 

The first year you participate in the Chalk Festival it's $30. Every year after that it's free! When you're there, they give you plenty of chalk, water, snacks during the day, breakfast, tote bags, shirts, and artist dinner on Thursday, and there's awards for the winners. They even give you a blank canvas to return with paint on it! Painting a canvas seems like a simple thing to do in return.