Thank You!

Relay for Life 2012 Album Where to begin? Thank you simply isn't enough.  What a great event!  Thankfully, we had great weather this year (with the exception of the freezing night temps).   We still have money coming in, but we made goal before the Relay even began!  That's a new record and much of that credit goes to Wendy who raised (as of today) over $2600 by herself.  Wow!! Awesome job Wendy! So many to thank for so many things... like Lynn for taking on the t-shirt orders.  I hope we didn't scare you off from doing it again, he he he.  Obviously Wendy for raising so much friggin' money.  HOLLA!  Missy for KNOWING without me saying anything that I forgot stuff and being willing to do what it takes to get it done. And also being our official team photographer.  Jenny for being our balloon getter and comic relief.  Seriously Jen, you have to stay next year!  Mike and kids for traveling all the way up from Virginia to be apart of something so special.  TJ for cooking, cleaning, feeding the animals... ha ha ha and much more.  Marcia and Steve for not even being on the team, and coming both days and staying to help us clean up on Saturday which is the suckiest job!  Babci... I'm glad you were able to come and hope you enjoyed your burnt hot dog :) Mostly, I want to personally thank Mert & Big Dave.  They really are the heart of this team.  They bring the Main tent, all the food, the grills and do most of the labor intensive work.  Without them, none of this would have been possible.  None. Period. As most of you know, this team was started because my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer way back when Alex was just 7 months old.  It has been sooo much work, but so worth it.  Each year just gets better and better and I'm happy we were able to do our 8th year for Relay this year.   Most of you know by now that we also won BEST FOOD for the 2nd year in a row, which is a HUGE DEAL for us.  I mean, we beat out Stearns meats!!  Holy cow!!  I am so proud of my Dad for his cooking skills and being the menu creator!  Next year, we definitely need a sign that tells everyone we serve "award winning" food, right? And how'd you guys like that ribbon light that went up during the luminaria ceremony?  SO COOL!  Next year, I'm hoping we can put a sign up telling everyone that we are closed down for this ceremony so we can all participate as a team and walk the track together.  Unless we can get some reliable people to volunteer to cover us while we walk... but we should still shut down during the lighting ceremony I think. You will all see above that I posted an album of all the pic's I took.  I'm not sure if you are able to add pictures, but if you can, please do.  I would love to see any of yours as well.   I will be in touch to make sure everyone gets back their coolers, tables, chairs, t-shirts.. etc....  but let me just say thank you again from the bottom of my heart for all that you do and have done! Ang