Phoenix Wedding Photographer shoots United Blood Services holiday blood drive.

As you can probably tell, I’m busy playing catch up on my blog from all the holiday activities. This is my 4th blog in 3 days with several more to come!

Before the Christmas bustle even began, I was busy planning an event for United Blood Services as part of my day job. The event was a big community blood drive hosted by the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale.

As you may know, the holiday season is traditionally one of the most diffucult times of the year to maintain the blood supply for Arizona hospitals. With many regular donors vacationing and keeping busy with holiday preparations, blood donations tend to decline. What most people don’t realize is that it takes over 700 blood donors A DAY to maintain our state’s blood supply and that doesn’t exclude the holidays!

The event at Jobing.com was held in an effort to vamp up the blood supply for the holiday season. The event was a huge success! Over 1oo people came out to donate. I was in charge of the event, so I didn’t have much time for a lot of shooting, but I did get some fun shots here and there. Here’s a few of my favorites:

The Coyotes provided this super fun inflatable slapshot for our kids area. Here’s one of our volunteers testing his skills.

Here’s a shot of some of our staff hard at work.

A hockey league practiced on the arena floor while our staff ate lunch.

Thanks to all those who came out to give blood! It was really fun to see all the holiday spirit . . .

. . . and the Coyotes fans too!

Our talented graphic designer Chris, had taken time off for the holidays, but he and his wife Lori came by to donate at the event.

Overall, it was a great event and most importantly, over a hundred donations were made that will benefit Arizona hospital patients.

For more information about blood donation, visit www.UnitedBloodServicesAZ.org.