Light the Night

The Light the Night walk sponsored by the Leukemia and Lymphoma society was held on October 11th here in Tyler. We have been working with the society for several months since I was diagnosed. Unfortunately, I was in the hospital the night of the walk, so I was unable to attend, but my team went and had a blast from what I was told. Rob was recruited by Tara (who is over the walk from LLS) and spent a lot of the day helping out and setting up. He absolutely loves doing that stuff so he was in a great mood all day. Before the walk, my parents, and some of my friends, the Feazel's and my friend Beth and her son came to the hospital to see me. It was so good to see them. The hospital gets so boring and they all came in from Shreveport so it was great to see them since I don't get to travel much anymore.

Thank you to each of you who supported our team in some way- either by donating or by walking! We had 31 participants sign up on our team which is great!! We had one of the larger teams out there! We are still raising funds through November so if you meant to donate and didn't, you still have time. Our team is half way to it's goal of $10,000 and I really want to meet that goal. It is a HUGE goal for a first year team, but I know it can be done- if not this year, then next year. If you would like to donate by online donation, please go to the right side of our blog and click on the link for the Lymphoblasters. Then click on one of our names to the right on that page and it will take you to the donation site. If you would like to donate by cash or check, please mail it to us made out to the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. We cannot do this without you!

Here's a few pics from the walk. Hope more of you can join us next year!!

The Lymphoblasters (our team) - the red balloons are for supporters, the white balloon was supposed to be mine for survivors (my mom carried it for me and Rob carried my survivor t-shirt) and the gold balloons are to represent the memory of someone who lost the fight. We got two gold balloons-Emilee and Natalie carried them in memory of Ethan Powell and Sully Farrar.

The kids had a blast! Here is Emilee with her balloon hat!

And Natalie with hers...

I worked on our banner for three days in the hospital. It kept me busy and was a lot of fun! Our team members signed the bottom to make it complete.

Rob and Natalie hanging out before the walk started

They had dinner catered in from Olive Garden. This is my mom and dad enjoying all the great food!

This is my other family- the Feazel clan. They moved in next door to us when I was six years old. Ashley and I (the one in the brown shirt) became best friends and soon sisters by choice. We are all still very close and I consider them an extra set of parents and now I even have two more nephews. Evan is in the stroller and Eli stayed at home since he is only 6 or so weeks old. Thank you to each of you for driving all this way to walk with our team for the society and for me! I love you guys!

This is one of my other friends Beth and her oldest son Lane. We have been friends for about 7 years and I can't imagine going through life without a friend like her. She has been there for me through thick and thin (so have a lot of my other friends!!). I love her bunches and her three sons! Thanks for coming out guys...can't wait until I feel better and we can scrapbook again!