As you may remember last year we did the Race for the Cure with my Uncle Gord, Aunt Janis, and cousin Shannon. As we ran we thought about how cool it would be to have my mom come in 2010 to do the race with us since it is such a neat experience to participate in. She is a 17 year survivor of breast cancer and we're so proud of her! My parents were planning on coming and they found some awesomely priced tickets so my Aunt Ellie and Uncle John decided to come too. Then, they all found a way for my Aunt Mur to fly out from Florida to complete the reunion of the siblings (Ellie, Elissa (mom), Gord and Mur). So with a semi-reunion started, Shannon and I started brainstorming about the Race for the Cure this year (as if I wasn't in the throes of planning another reunion. I'm crazy. There it is. Moving on.). We decided to make it a day of celebration of Elissa since her birthday is also in May. So we invited all the family who is in Utah who we hardly ever see and got a huge team of around 40 people together. It was an awesome day of celebration of my mom's survival!
Grace, Rob, Jaden and Adam
2 comments:
This post had me on a roller coaster! One minute I was going "aww that's so sweet" and the next I was tearing up and the next I was laughing with the supportive husbands and booby cake pictures. Love this post. Thanks for sharing!
what an amazing event and time it looks like you all had! I love it all, the shirts and the cake and the family support(literally) I think you are pretty amazing for all the planning you did and I'm so happy your mom is cancer free to this day and that we all get to enjoy her wonderfulness!
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