Sunday, January 25, 2009

Junior League Kids Korner at Pueblo Health Expo

The Expo was great!
We had great attendance, and I think lots of it was due to the fact that That's Natural created special postcard invitations for the women of the Junior League to hand out to kids to augment the marketing that the Expo itself was doing.  There was so much participation for the Zumba and jump roping activities!  I think the extra marketing may have brought more families this time!





Arwen Christian, Tisha Casida, and a few other bleary-eyed chics joined me at 6:30 a.m. to set up for the Expo.  We didn't turn out to have much to do at the get-go, but that relaxation disappeared when the kids started to arrive!  

Arwen and I hosted the Nutrition Jeopardy game for the kids, and we handed out great prizes, including donations from Pamela' Products, a gluten free company, and others.  Arwen, Liz Marco, and I had stayed up on Tuesday working on the board and writing questions for it.  It was fun!  There are some great resources online, including the NAFWA, that provide nutrition material free of charge.  


I also helped out a Sodexho chef who was having microphone difficulties - anything to be on stage, right? :)

Other significant women: Anne Weirbach, Laura McGowan, Cara Housman, Lindsey Pacheco, and Janna Nolt.  They all dedicated chunks of time to help out at the Expo.  
  
Joshua took this goofy shot of me dressed like a carrot, compliments of That's Natural.  But my bravery was beat out by Susie Cauley, our Junior League chicken.  

I also took at stab at the Tree Pose, taught by Hilary Pacheco-Hall from the YMCA.  

Here's Arwen helping with the jump roping... I shied away and was hanging out with the chef at the other cooking demo! :)


We also donated some of our booth space to the Sangre de Cristo Art Center, and Stuffy and Joey helped children learn about the internal organs of the body.  He pulled out not-to-lifesize organs to educate the kids!  How fun!