Back in February when my friend asked me if I would co-chair Relay For Life with her I instantly said no. No way I would not ever want to take on that big of a challenge with so much going on in my life. Then she asked again if I was sure that I didn't want to so I agreed to go with her and our American Cancer Society Representative to look at locations and see if maybe I would want to reconsider. I decided I would go ahead with that idea. By the end of the day I was hooked. My ideas were being taken seriously and I knew that my friend Summer was all in and would take what I was able to give her. But I seriously thought she'd kill me by the end of Relay. I'm alive...thanks Summer!
This county is fair in size and population but lacks in businesses and corporations. Our only store to shop at is WalMart. There is one grocery store other than WalMart. We do all of our shopping on post for food. Most people go outside the county for their other shopping needs. This meant that reaching our financial goal this year in our current economic state was going to be tough.
We moved Relay from the old location 20 minutes from the interstate in a tiny town to a place a mile off the highway and much larger to accommodate our big expectations.
We had illusionist Joel Meyers perform and he did a wonderful show! My BFF Melissa and her family came from Indiana. My MIL and Sister came from Texas with my nephews. We got up Friday morning and got to the location of Relay at 8. We were on our feet setting up from 8am until about 2am when I finally got to sit down.
It was Brandy's birthday so we handled that, here's the video!
Here's Melissa holding Joel Meyers blue balls.
More stories to come....
1 comments:
I love that you told him it was my bday and that he sang to me it made my day complete thanks!! I had a great time at relay you and Summer did an awesome job I am so proud of you both!
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