April 24, 2010

This was a great day! We were luck to have a Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides walk here in St. George this year (hopefully it was successful enough to keep it here in the years to come). I was asked by the chair of the walk to help out with getting donations for the raffle and to come help set up on the day of the walk. What an experience. It took me way out of my comfort zone to go to local businesses and ask for handouts. Not only that we hit up everyone we knew to help raise money for "Team Simon". We were overwhelmed by the response we received from friends, family, and neighbors. I have always felt there was something extra special about Simon, but through this experience I have realized that others feel it, too. He is such a sweet, strong, mature, happy, and good humored boy. His experiences with his health out number his years of life and he takes it all in stride. Our team ended up raising over $3600.00 for Cystic Fibrosis research and had over 50 people join us at the walk. We had a great time walking with you and chatting with you and celebrating this great fund raising effort! Thank you for those of you who donated, joined the walk, and did some of your own fund raising. You are amazing! We hope you will consider joining us again next year.