Sloan's 2011 Rock Star Party

Sloan had his 2nd Annual Rock Star party at the Reality Center on Saturday, January 22nd. What a night! The place was rockin' with Sloan and a massive gathering (70+) of many of his friends from all the different social groups he is involved in. While everyone was having a great time meeting, greeting and eating, Sloan kicked his party off right with a super loud and very cool guitar solo that definitely got everyone's attention! Noah finished the set off with the drums, and then the Chris Hendricks Band took the stage. Major highlights from the party that guests enjoyed while the music was going on included: the excellent and never-ending food table, the Ben and Jerry's ice cream stand, the Swag table with goodies and coupons for free Ben and Jerry's ice cream, a raffle box for a chance to win a CD or T-shirt from the band, and even a tattoo parlor!

Many, many thanks to everyone involved and to all the guests who attended the party. All of you are Rock Stars!

There are some very special thanks we need to mention though. A big thanks to Sloan's mom and dad for making most of the amazing food for the party! Sloan's dad made 52 pounds of Authentic Memphis Barbecue and Sloan's mom made 200 beautiful and tasty cake balls! YUM! All of it was a big hit and a huge success. Thanks Random, for being the "Runner" for the evening, and for recording the whole event for Sloan's listening pleasure. Thank you Sharon for being our tattoo artist! Jen, Sloan's own PA, thank you for making sure Sloan had a chance to eat, for the videos and photos, and for being a great friend to Sloan and his friends. Thank you Noah for the set-up help, for being the "Sound Guy", for the awesome drum solo, and for being the coolest Roadie ever! A very big thanks to Eric for bringing in plenty of Sloan's favorite Ben and Jerry's ice cream for Sloan and his friends to share! And last, but certainly not least, Thank you Michael, Aaron and Chris from the Chris Hendricks Band for sharing your amazing music, for Sloan's special Happy Birthday song, for signing autopraphs for Sloan's friends, and for the incredible finale inviting Sloan to sing Noise with you! We appreciate and love all of you so much!

Of course, the evening would not have been possible at all if not for Sloan's friends at Reality Ministries. The first step in planning this major event was to contact them. We told them Sloan was planning his birthday party again this year. "There will be about 150 invitations going out, a band, and oh yeah, can we use your very expensive sound system and your drum set too?" Their Answer- "Of course. We are honored to do this for Sloan. How else can we help you?" Because of that ever-present spirit of unconditional support, love and friendship they have always given Sloan, Sloan asked his guests, instead of presents for his birthday, to consider a $5 or other small donation to Reality Ministries. Everyone was extremely generous with their donations in Sloan's name. Sloan is very excited, and honored as well, to be able to happily donate $420 to Reality Ministries!! And we found out the day before the party that there is currently a matching challenge given by Doris Buffet. Any donations received by Reality Ministries until the end of January will be doubled! $840!!!! Now that is Rock Star! Thank you all so very much!

It was an incredible party and really wonderful to see everyone together in one place, sharing the experience together, sharing love and friendship with Sloan and with each other; and knowing that everyone there was celebrating Sloan's very amazing life.

See pictures from the evening at the link on the right, and Videos will be coming soon!