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A Blue Family Christmas December 6, 2024

Welcome to A Blue Family Christmas! Each year during the holiday season, Blue Thanksgiving sponsors officers and their families who are suffering financially due to catastrophic medical diagnosis, injury or life-altering events. Working overtime and part-time jobs, has become an all too common necessity among our law enforcement personnel, and for officers who are unable to work not only their regular duties with the agencies where they serve, but their part time jobs, the financial difficulties can be overwhelming. it is our goal to help those who are suffering with that lost income. Every year, Blue Thanksgiving, Inc., helps officers and their families who are dealing with some pretty challenging things. Each year, funds raised during our Blue Family Christmas Campaign go to help these families, and we are proud to say that this marks our 6th annual holiday campaign.

The Blue Family Christmas campaign culminates each year with a festive gala where officers and their supporters can come together for a great cause . This exciting evening provides an opportunity to celebrate the holiday season together while raising awareness and financial support for our local Law Enforcement Officers. This year marks our fifth annual Blue Family Christmas and we are so very proud and grateful for the support shown by this community and local businesses toward all our officers and especially those whom we have sponsored in years past.

We hope you will join us in supporting our heroes again this year as we come together in what is expected to be our largest and most anticipated holiday gala ever! Please secure your seat by registering for this event with a tax deductible donation. If you would like to become one of our valued sponsors or donate to our silent auction, please reach out to us, or complete the form on our registration page.

Our silent auctions have always been a highlight of our annual Blue Family Christmas event and you will want to view all the incredible items that have been donated. If you are unable to attend but would like to bid on items in our silent auction, please register your cell phone, so that you will be alerted when the auction opens or if you have been outbid by anyone!

Scenes From the 2023 Blue Family Christmas Gala

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Tito's Handmade Vodka

Tito's is the Official Vodka of the 2024 Blue Family Christmas Gala

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Tito's is the Official Vodka of the 2024 Blue Family Christmas Gala

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We are thrilled to once again have Tito's return as the OFFICIAL VODKA of the 2024 Blue Family Christmas Gala and to tell you a little about their history! Tito Beveridge wasn't always known as "The Vodka Guy". Born and raised in San Antonio, Tito went to Vanderbilt for a year before returning to Texas to attend UT (University of Texas at Austin), where he graduated with degrees in geology and geophysics. After college he got into the oil and gas business. He did that in Texas, and then found himself down in Venezuela and Colombia running heli-portable dynamite seismic crews. He came back to Texas, again, and started a drilling company in Houston. Eventually he got "tired of chasing the buck", and decided to move to Austin. In Austin, Tito got into ground water geology, and then thought he would give the mortgage business a try. It was around this time, in '92 or '93, when he started making flavored vodka as gifts for friends. One night he was at a party and a stranger came up to him and said "Hey, you're the vodka guy",and he said "No, contraire, I am the mortgage guy.". But, that really got Tito thinking... When mortgage rates went up a couple points, he started going to liquor stores to ask the owners and managers if they would buy his flavored vodkas. They all turned him down saying, "No, go look at all the dust on the shoulders of those bottles there!". But then they told Tito that if he could make a vodka that was so smooth you could drink it straight then he might have something. So, naturally, Tito, who had never distilled anything in his life, asked them how one might do that. They said, "Well, I don't know, you're the guy who wants to get in the vodka business!".