Mom's Letters: Relay for Life

Monday, April 26, 2010

Relay for Life - year 2

Relay was great again this year! Our team is fabulous - a bunch of girls from the ward and lots of fun! Shelly belly flew into town to be a part of it this time around and it was nice to have her. Because of the pregnancy I couldn't stay all night but we lasted until about 11pm and I did go back at 5am if you can believe that!! I felt for those who had been out all night in the wind and cold - they are hard core.

It is wonderful to see Rashelle who was so sick last year on chemo doing so great now. Her cute family walked the survivor lap together and it brought all of us to tears knowing that she is in remission. Yay!

I totally recommend relay to anyone who has been touched by cancer. It is an event that is fun for the whole family!

Remembering grandpa during the luminaria walk.

1 comment:

kendall said...: oh my gosh! you know how to get the tears flowing! Tyler and the feeding tube, then the relay for life..its too much! I gain strength from the two of you.. My thoughts and prayers are with you and Ashley today.. Parenting sometimes is the HARDEST thing we will ever do. i know Ash knows how much she is loved and adored. Stay strong.. i love you, Mom; April 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Relay for Life - year 2

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