The Blaire Krekel Shine Bright Foundation

09/16/2026

Blaire’s 9th Birthday Book Drive was a huge success!

With your help, we donated 3,826 books to KidVantage!! These books will go directly to children in our community! 🥹

We couldn’t do this without you! Thank you to our friends, family, neighbors and local business that collect books for us year-round and encourage their communities to collect for us. Big thanks to our friends at True Martial Arts - Sammamish and CLEAR Chiropractic Kirkland and In The Beginning Preschool who get their students/patients in on the fun and always collects tons of books for us!

Thanks to the incredible generosity of The Blaire Krekel Shine Bright Foundation, and the amazing community behind Blaire’s 9th Birthday Book Drive, KidVantage received a remarkable donation of 3,826 books this August! 📚

We are truly honored to partner with The Blaire Krekel Shine Bright Foundation and to be part of Blaire’s legacy. 🧡

Want to learn more about the foundation making a difference? Visit their page and join us in celebrating the power of community and the gift of reading! ✨

08/11/2026

Hi Everyone! Blaire’s 9th Birthday Book Drive is still going strong for another few days! If you have new or used books you’d to pass along to us to donate to KidVantage we’d love to take them off your hands! We also collect books year-round so reach out if you do a clean out mid-year! 💜

07/09/2026

Summer is here and that means it’s time to celebrate Blaire’s upcoming 9th birthday with a book drive benefiting KidVantage! We’d love your help in stocking KidVantage’s shelves with new and used books that they pass on to wonderful children in our community.

Books can be new or used, any language or genre for newborn to middle school. If you’d like to mail or drop off books our address is 2893 258th PL SE, Sammamish WA 98075, or send text me at (206) 491-2402 and I will pick up the books from your doorstep. We will collect books until mid-August.

A big thank you to our friends at CLEAR Chiropractic Kirkland and True Martial Arts - Sammamish who are collecting books for us!

07/09/2026

Presenting the 2026 Shine Bright for Blaire Krekel Dance Scholarships honorees!

Big congratulations to: Audrey, Claire, Estelle, Finley, Finnely, Leo, Madelyn, Miyah, Sara Georgia and Siena!

The honorees were selected by their dance teachers at Inspire Academy of Dance for their ‘Passion for dance and the joy they bring to every class, just like Blaire did.’

It was our pleasure to host the honorees and their families at the studio for a reception of sweets, crafts, and conversation. We topped off the festive day with an awards ceremony where each dancer was presented with a certificate, t-shirt and goodie bag. Seeing the dancers enjoying their special moment made our day!

Thank you so much for your continued partnership, Inspire Academy of Dance. You’re a very special place to our family and many in our community.

09/07/2025

Blaire’s 8th Birthday Book Drive was a huge success this year! With your help we donated 3,048 books to KidVantage!! Wow!

This year, word of our book drive reached more people and we very much enjoyed connecting with each of you! Whether I was in my grubby clothes gardening when you came by with books 😆, if I met you at your house, or we texted or chatted over messenger, all of our interactions were deeply meaningful to us. Our book drive brings us closer to Blaire and knowing she is seen and loved by her community is all we could ever hope for. Thank you for honoring our girl, showing how good our community is, and helping us pay it forward.

We will be back next year so keep us in mind when you are ready to donate books! 💜

09/07/2025

Thank you to our friends at Nurture Kids Dentistry for supporting Blaire’s Birthday Book Drive! Your support means the world to us and we enjoyed connecting with so many of your patients! 💜

08/28/2025

CLEAR Chiropractic Kirkland thank you so much for always supporting our family and Blaire’s Birthday Book Drive! We appreciate you! 💜

08/18/2025

Thank you to our friends at Personalized Orthodontics - Rooz Khosravi, DMD, PhD (PORTH Sammamish by Metropolitan Market) for hosting a book drive in your office for us! My trunk has a big ol’ box and bag of books in it, but we spent so much time chatting that we forgot to get a picture in their office! We appreciate your partnership, friendship and the great way you take care of Brynn’s smile! 😁

08/13/2025

A huge thank you to our friends at True Martial Arts - Sammamish and their students for collecting over 1,300 books (in only a week!) for Blaire’s 8th Birthday Book Drive! We are humbled by your generosity and thankful for your friendship! The sense of community you’ve built at your school is incredible!

Even though we will drop off the books soon to KidVantage we still still accept donations through the end of the month. And of course, we’ll be back next year. 💜

Stay tuned for the final count!

06/15/2025

Presenting the 2025 Shine Bright for Blaire Krekel Dance Scholarships honorees!

Big congratulations to: Amelia, Georgia, Hailey, Harper, Lennon, Mae, Poppy, Reagan, Songya, Willow, and Zuri!

The honorees were selected by their dance teachers at Inspire Academy of Dance for their ‘Passion for dance and the joy they bring to every class, just like Blaire did.’

We had the pleasure of hosting the honorees and their families at the studio for sweets, crafts, conversation with an awards ceremony where each dancer was presented with a certificate, t-shirt and goodie bag. Getting to know the dancers and their families is extremely meaningful to our family. It was truly our honor to meet everyone and see their dancers so excited to be celebrated. There was certainly a lot of Blaire magic in the room that day! 💜🌈

Thank you so much for your continued partnership, Inspire Academy of Dance. You’re a very special place to many in our community.

PS- We are at 30% of our goal for Blaire’s 8th Birthday Book Drive! We’d love your help in reaching our goal! All books will be donated to KidVantage!