NOVA CON
Birthday Zaniness in front of the Lens
Welcome to our annual Birthday Party, this year on March 28, 2014. We welcomed fellow Aries Frank Clemente, founder of CONCEPTBAIT, the regions top event design company. Also, my longtime pal Mario DeFreitas, a fellow April Fools baby (like me!) joined in to celebrate our collective birthdays!!
I turned 46, Frank and Mario both now just 21 (ha!) and NOVA 535 itself now 6 years old!! Happy Birthday and Congrats to us all! 
So we were lucky enough to have so many people chip in to help make NOVA CON #6 our best birthday party yet!!
Ryan Anderson, CONCEPTBAIT, designed the room. It’s was BREATHTAKING!!
Team FOTO BOX Live and attendant Josh were awesome! Muchas gracias amigos!
Entertainers:
Singer, Stacey Amber – Stacey you look and sound fabulous!
The Cutest Illusionist Gypsy Allure – if you haven’t seen Gypsy Allure yet, she is spellbinding!! Thanks, Gypsy! 😉
Delicious food and catering by the always extraordinary Puff-n-Stuff, Thanks Lauren you’re the best!!
Music by DJ PAPI of Wild Out Entertainment – you ROCKED brother!!
Photographs by Jeruel of Jeruel Photography, you’re a stud brother! Thanks!!
[Link to ALL the Party Photos from Jeruel Photography]
Special shouts to my friends, partners, mentors, and family (from other mothers): Drew Edwards, president of Ron White Inc, along with his lovely lady Helene,
Daniel Jefferson founder of Got Jokes? Entertainment and Co-Producer of the BIG BANG SHOW, health and fitness superstar Forbes Riley,
Playmate and Entrepreneur Rhonda Shear with awesome hubby Van, singer and legendary Tom Gribbin, several of my fellow KPI team members (KPI = Key Person of Influence) including author Jonathan Malkin of Entrepreneurial Honesty, and Birth Coach and Doula Jenna Haughbrook 😉
my Kung-Fu and Kickboxing Master of 20 years Amir Ardebily and lovely wife Farrah of Amir’s Academy of Martial Arts, K-9 Police Officer Matt Regan (Let’s spar brother!),
Olga Bof founder of Keep St. Pete Local, OLGA!! =D, and so many more that I’m sure to forget though love so much!!
Ryan and Johanna of Courtyard by Marriott St. Petersburg Downtown
And of course, Claire and the delightful ladies of She Runs with Scissors!
See how even more fabulously NOVA 535 looks, when Ryan and the entire CONCEPTBAIT team gets a hold of my building!! WOWZERS!! =D
Team NOVA 535: Our world-class bar staff Peter, Bill, Kristy, Troy – you four are incredible!!
Thanks to each of you for your hard work and efforts – Big Nick, Emily, James, Craig, Ruby, and Chris!! You all are the core of Team NOVA and I’m proud to be your leader!
Thank you all!
And of course thanks to all of my friends, like Mike, Lou and Jenna and T & K and family Momma, Chris, Julie, Lindsey, Sabrina and little Christopher and Colin, that came out to celebrate not only our individual birthdays but also that NOVA has made it 6 years, during the most brutal economy since the 1930s. THANK YOU to our community of supporters plus everyone who has helped us during our journey!!
Here are our FotoBox Photos:
