Paying It Forward In A Big Way!

Last Breyerfest, there was a horrible and a scary incident that rocked the model horse community.  However, the community rallied and using Road To Breyerfest and a few other groups, the model horse community replaced a number of models and other items that were stolen out of a rented vehicle while at a hotel in Lexington, Ky. One of these models was a glossy prize model from the Children's Costume Contest.  The family was devastated, but all of the models were replaced, including the prize model.

Fast forward to later in the year and I received a message from an amazing lady who helped fund the replacement models and who found the majority of the models to replace using the groups on Facebook.  She informed me that she and the family that the group helped would love to pay it forward in 2019.  I said that this would be amazing and I would await their messages before I told the group.

Today, I received the message that the Jones' family would be funding a trip to Breyerfest for a person or family that was down on their luck.  I was to award this fund in whichever way that I found best and that person would receive the funds for hotel and travel to the event. I spent all day trying to find ways to post this in the main group and while talking to my admin team (I can't be everywhere at once so I have some amazing ladies that volunteer their time to help me.), we came up with a way to fairly decide how this was to be done.  It was posted and immediately the stories of how amazing this contest was and how it was much needed to a few people came pouring into my comment feed and my inbox.  I am deeply honored that I was even able to be a part of this. Later, I was contacted by Mares In Black and they asked if they could share the contest.  Not only did they share it, but their write up made me cry. I was in tears of happiness before I even finished reading what those ladies had written. 

Paying It Forward, RTB Style!

I am still in shock and I cannot wait until Saturday when we reveal on the Facebook group who won!