Ready for the New Year

We are so excited to get this year started! We have so many great projects, fundraisers, and events planned so far.

We will be offering a scholarship again this spring. We are also going to be participating in Festival of Trees again this December. We have several other great events in the works, and we will let you know more about them as details become available.

Also, if anyone is interested in joining our group, and are willing to make a commitment to attend meetings (we have 10 per year, July and December are off months), please email us at coltonsangels@gmail.com for more information/details, or if you have any questions.

We look forward to another great year full of friends, fun, fundraising, and some awesome events!

More Festival Photos

Here are some more photos from Festival of Trees 2009. Thanks to the friends of Colton's Angels who took these pictures. :)

Close up of one of the Guitar Hero guitars in the tree. Custom artwork on the guitars was done by Colton's brothers, Jase and Zack.

Colton's mom, Angie, and her friends.

Thanks again to everyone who helped us with the tree!

TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE

OH MY GOSH you guys! We just booked the Orem Theater for the MIDNIGHT SHOWING of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third movie in the series.

We are so excited about this. Our New Moon party was so much fun and such a success that we wanted to do it again, but weren't sure if we could get the midnight show or not. Well, we DID! :)

SO! Start getting excited! I know it's not until June, but as the planning continues on for our party, we will keep you updated. We just wanted to share the excitement!!

FESTIVAL OF TREES 2009: OUR GUITAR HERO

Here is our report on the Festival of Trees, and our tree OUR GUITAR HERO:

First up is the quilt. Lola...Again! made the quilt, Joanna at Designs by Laura Jo quilted it, and Colton's grandma bound it for us. She used the black ribbon with skulls that Lola put on the quilt top. It turned out so awesome.


Joanna quilted flames on the quilt to go with the theme of the fabric.

Lola also put on some of the flame ribbon.

Colton's grandma helped us out some more by making the tree skirt and both of the stockings for the display. Joanna quilted those, too, again in a flame pattern. The tree skirt has red minkee for binding and flame ribbon on the edge. It looked really cool.

Monday, November 30th, was decorating day for the Festival. We loaded up Angie's car with most of the boxes.

We had a TON of stuff to take with us! The tree went in Diana's truck, and Joanna hauled up everything else that wouldn't fit.

Colton's grandpa helped us get the tree ready by attaching the rebar, PVC pipe, and the self-tapping screws. The Festival of Trees have some pretty specific directions when it comes to reinforcing your tree. Everything has to be just right or they make you fix it before you can check your tree off with them. They do this so that they don't have to worry about it breaking when it's getting delivered. Everything has to be secured to the tree, and the tree has to be reinforced so that all the Festival does is wrap it in a huge plastic bag, load it up, and deliver it to the lucky new owners.

We are finally at the Festival! It took us most of the morning/afternoon to prepare the tree and put half of the lights on it (we bought a non-prelit tree, oops!) before leaving to go to Festival.

Angie and her husband decorating the tree. After several trips to Lowe's and Wal-Mart, we finally got everything we needed to light the tree and were able to decorate it fairly quickly after that.

Diana's husband also came to help us. Here he is, posing with some of the decorations.

Diana and Angie, decorating the tree. It's starting to come together at this point.

The final layout! We finished right at 7 PM, just as they started to kick everyone out! WHEW! It was close, but well worth it.

Doesn't our tree look so cool?! It was the brightest one on the aisle.

We set the Rock Band 2 drums and guitar up, with Colton's picture in front of it. Everyone who came up to us as we were putting the Rock Band 2 stuff up said how cool they thought ours was. We agree! This tree/space is so Colton!

Here you can see the two gamer chairs, the XBOX 360, the quilt and the two stockings. On the side of the photo you can see the finished edge of the tree skirt.

All checked off with the aisle workers and ready to go home! This was one of my favorite spaces at the festival (and I'm not just saying that because it was our space). It was so bright and vibrant and DIFFERENT.

Here are three of the ladies from Colton's Angels: Angie, Joanna, and Diana.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this tree happen this year. Thank you to everyone who donated money to our Quilt Show Raffle in August. Because of your donations, we were able to purchase the XBOX 360, the chairs, and Rock Band 2. Thank you to Shasta at Gracie Lou's, who donated the skulls and flame ribbons. And thank you to everyone in Colton's Angels. Without you ladies, this group would not be as successful as it has been.

What happened to our tree after we left? Well, I have some good news for you:

IT SOLD!!!!

We found out through Festival of Trees' Facebook page that someone purchased our tree. We were so excited. We were even more delighted to hear that they were then donating the tree to the Ronald McDonald House. We found out the next day, from the lady who purchased it, that they had called the Ronald McDonald House to tell them about their donation, only to find that recently their XBOX had broken, and ours was a much needed replacement!

We are so happy to know that our tree is going to people who really needed it. Thank you so much to whoever purchased it!

For more pictures of trees at the Festival, please click on the Facebook page link above. They had so many great donations this year! Festival ended Saturday night at 10 PM. We are already planning a tree for next year, so if you weren't able to make it this year, please come next year.

If you would like to donate directly to Primary Children's Medical Center (all proceeds from Festival of Trees went to PCMC) then please go here for more information on how to donate.

NEW MOON Fundraiser Report

Thank you to everyone who helped make tonight so AWESOME!!! We had 74 door prizes!! Look at that stack up there! Thanks to everyone who donated:

Allison's Pantry: 3 $25 gift cards
Lola...Again: 5 red ruffle scarves, 5 black ruffle scarves, 3 purses
Gracie Lou's: 2 minkee blankets
Carrie Brown: 11 credit card purses, each with a $5 gift card (donated by Sweetbriar Cove)
Sweetbriar Cove: 2 black and white aprons, 2 knit black scarves, 10 lotion bags, 16 bags of assorted candy, 1 watch, and the souvenir gift bags received by EVERYONE who attended (each bag had a small bag of sugared nuts, a candy, and a metal link charm bracelet with a red heart charm)
Angie Stewart: 11 bracelets and 2 necklaces
Jenny Limb and Joanna Peterson: a black, white, and red quilt (Jenny provided the fabric and pieced it, Joanna provided the batting and quilted it)
And all the girls here at Colton's Angels!

A few of our movie-goers. There shirts said "Bit me, Edward....Please!"

The theater before the movie. I know it looks like it isn't very full, but TRUST ME! It WAS! The flash went off, but because of the angle and the lights, you can't really see clear to the back in the photo.

Everyone who came got a great gift bag (bracelet, nuts, candy), their ticket, a chance to win prizes, and a $5 concessions gift card.

We had a lot of fun, and the movie was AWESOME! Thanks to everyone who came (especially those who had already seen it twice!).

So what do you all think? Should we do it again in June for Eclipse? We'd love to hear your opinions!!

New Info

Hey all! If you read this and have a Facebook account, you can now friend us! It's just another fun way to interact with us and stay up-to-date with what we're doing.


Also, if you live in the Utah County area of Utah, and would like to join our group, we would love to have you!

We meet once a month, the third Tuesday, at 6:30 PM. Dues are $20 a month. The monthly dues go to funding each month's project, and the big annual projects like the scholarship and Festival of Trees. If we don't have enough money to do a project (like Festival) we will hold beneifts/fundraisers (like the Quilt Show Raffle in August, and the NEW MOON benefit party in 3 days).

If you would like more information on joining our group, or would just like to make a donation, please email us at coltonsangels@gmail.com

T minus 3 DAYS!

We are all so excited! There are less than 3 days until our benefit showing of New Moon!!

There are still a few tickets left, so let us know if you want them. Email coltonsangels@gmail.com or call Joanna or Angie or Vicki at 801-423-1876


Also, we have so many door prizes! Here's just a small sampling of what we've got in store: a quilt, ruffley scarves, purses, candy gift bags, bracelets, aprons, lotions, and MORE!!

It really is going to be a great party. Make sure to wear your red, white, and black (Twilight colors). I guess you could dress up if you WANT to. haha. Several people have made their own Team Edward/Team Jacob shirts. From what I've seen on Facebook, blogs, etc., it is going to be awesome to see what everyone has done in preparation for this party!