Sunday, May 17, 2015

Great Srides thank you video 2015

We want to thank each and every one of you who supported us this year at Great Strides.  We were once again blown away by the blessing of truly amazing people in our lives.  We apologizes that we did not get to talk to or even see everyone.  If you were there in person or there in spirit you are truly appreciated.  We are not in this fight alone.  Thank you to each and everyone of you and your families who supported Goin' for Owen  and walking with us through this journey. 
Owen made a special thank you message for you https://youtu.be/zedmfQwAReI

Hold on for the special message from  Owen at minute 1:20

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Great Strides Information for Saturday

Good Evening Team,

First off we just want to thank everyone who is coming out on Saturday for the walk.  Your participation and support is such a lift to us. Knowing there are so many people in our lives who take time out to walk with us is amazing.  Before I hit on a few house cleaning items to keep you in the know, please remember people with CF are not to be within 6 feet of one another to prevent the sharing of CF specific lung infections.   Please be conscious of the event nature, use lots of sanitizer, cough into your elbow and throw tissues away. Most of the CFer’s will have a MVP baseball shirt on.  These are the folks you are walking for.  They all truly appreciate you being there.  Thank you again for joining us this year!

Parking - Parking will be available for free in the Raley Field parking lots

Check-in / Registration -is located on the Main Gate Plaza in front of the Raley Field Box Office.  The registration table will tell you where we are sitting as well as give you all the walk day goodies like entrance tickets to get you access to all the fun.  This is also the time to pick up any incentive prizes you have earned. 

Meet up Time- We are asking our team to be registered, checked in and at our area by 9:00 am.   That gives us about 10 minutes to tell you what you need to know and then do a team photo at 9:10.  Team Photos are going to be done inside the park near the main entrance gate. We are trying to get red and white balloons for our area to distinguish us from others. That will give us time for our team photos, thank yous and all the fun other stuff.

PRIZES: I'm including the link to the Great Strides prizes for anyone who has fundraised $100 or more. Please take a look and know what selection you'd like to make once you get up to the Registration Check In booth, and pass along to your Walkers as well :) This year, our Chapter offered an additional incentive prize. For anyone who banked $50 or more between May 1st and May 14th, they will receive a Team CF Foam Finger, as well! Here is the Prize Link: http://fightcf.cff.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gs_prizes

A Fun Day at the Ball Park -  Don't forget blankets, lawn chairs, pop-up canopies, coolers & sunscreen!
     
The Pre Walk Fest
Raley Field Gates will open at 8:00am with access to pre-walk activities including refreshments,
Mascot Mania, Team Photos, Roaming Selfie's, The Music Zone, Health & Wellness Expo, Vendor Village, Dinger's Kids Corner, Raffle, Super Raffle, Silent Auction, The Wall of Champions, "Why I Stride" Tribute Wall, M.V.P. Art Walk, Zumba Warm-Up, Jumbo-Tron Presentations and More!    

The Walk
The 5k Great Strides walk will start at 9:30am on the Raley Field Plaza at the Main Gate Start Line. The kick-off ceremony will begin with a few special guests and an extra festive Raley Field start!

The Post Walk Fest
As you complete the walk, you'll enter Raley Field through the center field gate, walk around the baseball field to the exciting finish line. The Great Strides Walk Fest will continue including a special "run the bases" for all kids, lunch a free Ballpark BBQ lunch (Dinger Dogs and Black Bean Burgers, Chips, and unlimited soft drinks), RAFFLES, Vendor Village, Health and Wellness Expo, live entertainment, fun & games and more!    They will be  set up to take credit cards for all raffles and silent auctions this year!           

Shirts
I have them.  You can pick them up that morning.

If you have any questions or concerns call or text me.  I will be crazy the next two days so if you can text you may get a faster response.  916-662-4609

Looking forward to seeing everyone. We cannot thank you enough for coming out!!

Together, Let’s CURE this!

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Thank you

Thank you to Make-a-wish and every one who came out on Saturday night at the Wine and Food Fest! It was a special night to meet some fantastic people and some amazing wishes. ♡♡☆♡♡

Happy Birthday!

Please join us in wishing Owen a Happy 7th Birthday today!  Happy Birthday Buddy!
We will share all well wishes with him.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Thank you

Thank you to all who came out, organized,  volunteered and help ed out with the Wednesday night dinners!  It was a lot of fun and a great success.  Here is a picture of our amazing crew member Mr. Izaiah ad he tells folks about Goin' for Owen and Jacqui and the Buffalo Wild Wings Crew

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

East Coast and West Coast fundraiser today!

Eat spaghetti in Ogdensburg or wings at buffalo wild wings in Natomas and Citrus Heights! Fundraiser

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Cookie Pizza

Lucie and Owen made a dessert pizza. Yum!

Road Warriors

Owen, his friend Lucie and I started out on what we thought would be a relaxing ride to Old Town Sacramento on Thursday. 12 miles later we arrived at Subway in the Pocket.  Three cheers for these kids who did not complain even once on the way down or back. Great job guys!

Saturday, February 28, 2015

End of season

Fall/winter Hockey ended today.We are amazed by the benefits of playing hockey.  Owen is stronger and healthier than in a while. Super proud of him

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Update

We are super excited to see the Red Wings play the Sharks tonight.  A lot of you have asked me to post some photos and videos from Owen's amaxing Make-a-wish trip. We also have some great photos from Skate for a Cure, Cycle for Life, and Owen's visit with the Cal Football team.  I will have the site up to date including last years highlights and  this year's events by the end of the weekend.

If you would like to go to the Sacramento Kings CF night please message me as soon as possible. 

If all goes well I will even get the Great Strides video owen made up on the site.

Thank you for all your support