{"id":11605,"date":"2025-12-17T06:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:39:03","slug":"dreams-came-true-when-children-joined-santa-and-mrs-clause-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/2025\/12\/17\/dreams-came-true-when-children-joined-santa-and-mrs-clause-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Came True when Children Joined Santa and Mrs. Claus for Breakfast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deschutes County foster children and their foster families were hosted by <\/span><b>Pine Tavern and<\/b> <b>Assistance League<\/b><b>\u00ae<\/b><b> of Bend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at their <\/span><b>32nd Annual Breakfast with Santa on December 7, 2025.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bringing neighbors together, the event featured a delicious buffet, caroling, cookie decorating, and face painting added to the festivities<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children had the chance to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus, have their photos taken, and choose a stuffed animal or Lego <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as a keepsake of this special day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistance League of Bend and Pine Tavern once again partnered to serve a complimentary breakfast to local foster families. \u201cThis<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is one of the very few programs in Central Oregon that treats the whole foster family, not just the foster child,\u201d said Dana Barron, event organizer. \u201cIt is a heartwarming experience to see the joy on the children\u2019s faces when they meet Santa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reservations filled quickly and the event sold out again this year. The general public can participate after the foster family reservations are filled and proceeds from the breakfast help fund the event for the foster families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This event has become a much-anticipated and beloved tradition in Bend, with some families returning year after year\u2014like the Hopp family, who have taken part for over 30 years (pictured here).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deschutes County foster children and their foster families were hosted by Pine Tavern and Assistance League\u00ae of Bend at their 32nd Annual Breakfast with Santa on December 7, 2025. Bringing neighbors together, the event featured a delicious buffet, caroling, cookie decorating, and face painting added to the festivities. Children had the chance to visit with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":11609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breakfast-with-santa","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11611,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions\/11611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}