I participated in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on Friday night. It was so awesome! I have never done anything like it before and it was such a great experience. Some ladies in my neighborhood put together a team in honor of some amazing fighters we have in our ward. Our neighborhood has had more than it's fair share of cancer in the last year or so, and I was so glad to help out. Our team raised almost $1500.00! The event raised almost $35,000, woo hoo! Thank you so much to those of you who contributed to my efforts, I was so touched by your generosity. I feel so incredibly blessed by the general good health of my loved ones. I hope that helping out with this puts a few more rocks in my "good karma" bucket....
The event is really inspiring to attend. They have an opening ceremony where they talk about survivors and let the attending survivors take a lap around the track by themselves and then with their caregivers. They played Mylie Cyrus' "the Climb" and I was in tears the whole time! Our little friend Sirri had neuroblastoma last year and was the littlest one out there, she is amazing!
The event is really inspiring to attend. They have an opening ceremony where they talk about survivors and let the attending survivors take a lap around the track by themselves and then with their caregivers. They played Mylie Cyrus' "the Climb" and I was in tears the whole time! Our little friend Sirri had neuroblastoma last year and was the littlest one out there, she is amazing!
Sirri and her mom, Lisa-Marie. I LOVE these two so much!
At about 10 pm, when it is nice and dark, they do a luminaria ceremony, where they have "HOPE" spelled out in lumaria on the bleachers and luminaria line the track, each one in honor of someone who was lost or has survived. It is really touching, they
The theme this year was "Relay on the Red Carpet," sort of a Hollywood thing, so our team was called "The Pink Ladies."
I was in charge of the decorations for our area, and here is what I came up with...it was so fun!
Our water jug cover...
and the cute chocolate chip cookie dough truffles I made for the bake sale!
There were so many delicious treats on hand, its a good thing I walked pretty much all night! Our team had to have someone on the track the whole time (from 6 pm to 6 am) and it really was just better to walk than try to stay awake while not-walking. Plus it helped keep me warm. Even though it is almost July, it still gets quite chilly at night and I was sure ready for a warm bath Saturday morning. My sweet hubby let me sleep as long as I wanted, and it was awesome.
Stay tuned for:
"Goats on the paddle boat."
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"Hudson 'racing' to sleep."
Shelly that looked like a lot of fun! Your decorations are amazing, you are so talented. That is cool you raised so much dough!
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome, I love to give back to the cancer fundraisers, I think that is why I do the Little Red Riding Hood bike tour for the survivors in my life, mainly my sister. Let me know next time I'd love to donate.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you did that, how cool of you. We are lucky that we do have pretty good health in our family. Your always so sweet to help everyone out all the time, I am so proud to call you my older sis! Love ya!
ReplyDeleteWay to go Shelli, what a great cause. I bet it was touching-if I would have been with you I would have been in tears the whole time too.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love doing events like that. They are always so inspiring, and bring me back to reality!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I want one of those truffles. The box alone makes them look yummy :) Can't imagine how good they taste - ummm
I love it!! That's so awesome!
ReplyDeleteGood job! Everything turned out so cute! What a great cause to support.
ReplyDeleteSome how I have missed your last few posts...I was wondering where you have been.
ReplyDeleteWe just participated in our first relay too, and I thought it was amazing.