Saturday started in our usual stomping grounds of The Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, before we took our large crew to access our artistic sides. Ready, Paint, Fire offered a great opportunity for everyone to show us just how creative they can be. The crew at RPF was so warm and welcoming and is a great place to take any group in Breckenridge! This was the quietest we have heard the CFMN family as they were so intent on their painting prowess. What a fun start to the day!

Next, it was on to a scavenger hunt around town created by Cat. Going from the serene and mellow Ready, Paint, Fire to a frantic dash to find everything on our list was so fun! Thanks to all of the businesses who participated including the Mountain Goat, The Joy of Sox, Molly Jack’s, and especially to Mountain Top Cookies who provided us with much needed energy to complete the hunt!

Obviously after all this commotion we needed some food. Chris, Eric, and the kind team at one of Breckenridge’s classic Restaurants, Downstairs at Eric’s warmly welcomed us in for delicious pizza and apps. It was exactly what needed, thank you so much for your warmth, kindness, and YUMMY food!

The Underworld Arcade connected to Eric’s was the next destination CFMN would conquer. Geoff, Chris, and Fara were so kind to provide the crew with hours of entertainment in their incredible fun zone. The volunteers were all over this as well and loved getting beaten in every arcade game, basketball, an skee-ball by people a quarter their age (if not younger). Thank you so much for all the fun!

The rest of the night would be spent with board games, charades, and lots of laughter. Thank you everyone who supported us and helped make this another wonderful event for the Club Forget Me Not family. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR OUR COMMUNITY!

Games, Games, Games! There were so many fun games and excitement. A wonderful snowshoe hike on Breckenridge Mountain was filled with sunshine, smiles, and laughs. Then an Olympics of games that surely brought out our competitive sides while looking completely ridiculous, silly, and overflowing with laughter. But you do what you gotta do when there are amazing prizes at stake. We sure did eat well too, with burritos the size of Jaxon, a Dutch Oven pizza cookoff that left judges with a challenge of picking a winner between 3 excellent options including a gingerbread shaped pizza, stuffed crust, and the always debated pineapple on pizza topic, and obviously finishing the night with S’mores!

Thank you everyone for making this event happen. It was a complete success! Thanks to the crew at the BOEC (Claire, Melissa, Mark, Kendra and everyone behind the scenes), CFMN volunteers, the families of our campers for getting the kiddos up to Breckenridge, and of course, those always spirited and high energy campers for being so awesome! We hope everyone has a fantastic holiday, thank you again for being a part of Club Forget Me Not.

Below are a few of the highlight photos, but please click here to see all the photos from the weekend!

Thanks Frisco Nordic Center, volunteers, and most importantly the families for making this an outstanding Club Forget Me Not event. Updates on our next activity coming soon! Thanks family and happy Spring!

A huge thank you to the families for finding time during the busy holiday season to connect. Another big thank you to the crew at Wild Game Entertainment, you went above and beyond to take care of us. You were so kind, thoughtful, and fun! We look forward to coming back again and enjoying another fun event with you.

Enjoy the photos everyone and keep an eye out for an event this winter with Club Forget Me Not! Grateful for all of you and can’t wait to connect again soon. Enjoy the photos, sorry they are little blurry, you were all just moving around too fast to catch, or maybe you are just blurry?

Per usual we were going a million miles an hour with exciting activities. Puzzles and games, tie-dying shirts and bandanas, planting all of our favorite flowers (Forget Me Nots, duh), yard-game party, frisbee, and smores were just a PART of the fun on Saturday. Capping off the evening with pizza, a bonfire and a movie led to sleepy campers and volunteers. Up and ready to roll Sunday morning a beautiful waterfall hike before reconnecting with our families concluded the fantastic weekend.

Another stress-relieving, fun, therapeutic activity was writing private messages on dinner plates of things we were frustrated with and wanted to let go as well as our foundations and gratitudes of love. Then, with HUGE grins we enjoyed smashing these plates as a way of letting go. It was beautiful and therapeutic. We highly recommend (safely) doing this.

Thanks again to the campers for being so brave, courageous and entertaining! Please share these photos and we look forward to seeing you all in December for another excellent outing. Click here for All of the Photos from the weekend! There are a lot of great ones. Below are just a few, but please check out the link above

To accompany the craziness of Elf, “home campers” were all given gift bags to enhance the overall cozy-factor. The bags included all kinds of tasty treats, cozy blankets and socks, hot coco, and extra love.

While of course we all wish we could be together, 2020 has been an exercise in making the most of every situation. While there may be much that is lacking this holiday season, there is also so much to be grateful for. Thanks everyone for adapting and making this watch party a special night!

A few of you were asking about some recipes from the gift bags. My mother, Judy Mikita, was kind enough to make me a cookbook of family recipes that really belong to the world. The Caramel Corn is my great Aunt Ella’s recipe, I love the family history of it, but swap the margarine out for butter!

Buckeyes are an Ohio tradition and make wonderful snacks for any movie night or event. The Buckeye is the state tree of Ohio, and produces a poisonous nut and beautiful pink flowers. Don’t worry, these are safe (unless you have a nut allergy, the avoid). But these are a staple of Ohio but beloved by all! Again, I substitute out the margarine for butter, and coconut oil for shortening, and sometimes dark chocolate and almond butter, chef’s choice. And notice how my mom, in her perfect English teacher cursive, told me to “use clean hands…” I did.

Enjoy, grateful for all of you, Happy Holidays from Club Forget Me Not!

Thanks for to the BOEC, volunteers, and most importantly the families for making this a wonderful day together. We need one another now more than ever, so keep reaching out to one another, supporting, laughing, crying, adventuring, just because it needs to be done safer or with some restrictions doesn’t mean that quality connection needs to stop. Get creative, find new ways to build relationships and support each other, we need it!

The club that no one wants to join, but is really glad exists when they do is stronger than ever. This is a result of our veteran families and our new families coming together to make one bigger, stronger, goofier, and more amazing family. Thanks everyone for making our first pandemic event a total success! We will see you soon…

Of course the casual sledding quickly turned into rocket speeds, sick air off jumps, and sled-trains of grinning Forget-Me-Notters. Our stomachs were hurting from laughing so much at all the fun. A great holiday season reminder that we are all grateful to have one another.

Thanks everyone for making it such a great event and being willing to adapt. We will keep you posted on our rescheduled camp event. Have a wonderful holiday season, and a happy and healthy everyday!

Below are a few of the highlights and here is a link to all the amazing pictures.