Light the Night

As many of you know, Dave is done with treatment for the month of August and has the entire month of September free from The James. In lieu of eight hour treatment days we decided we should have a baby! ha ha

You will notice the next few posts will have more to do with Marshall's arrival and less to do with cancer. We will also be giving you information regarding Light the Night. This is The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's annual walk to help fight blood born cancers. Dave and I are excited to round up family and friends in support of such a great cause.

Light the Night is Saturday, October 18th at Fred Beekman park on the OSU campus. The pre-walk festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. and the walk is at 7:45 p.m. This is the Michigan State game so no worries about missing a good game (no offense Emilie). There will be music, food, and family activities. And, of course, the grand appearance of the world's cutest new born baby!

I'm going to be honest....I hate collecting money. I don't like the idea of getting pledges or carrying around envelopes full of cash and checks. So, we're going to make this easy. We have found someone to make Team Hall t-shirts inexpensively. If you are interested in walking with us, and we hope you are, it's $15.00. ($4.00 will cover the shirt and the other $11.00 will go to the fundraiser) The night of the walk we will give you your t-shirt to wear.

All you need to do is let me know you are interested and I'll even register you. Shoot me an email at manda_cadri@yahoo.com and I'll let you know our address and what information I need from you. I need to know how many walkers we have by Friday, September 19 so I can let the t-shirt guy know.

As a side note, we understand that many of you have families that might want to walk. We understand that $15.00 times several family members is expensive. Please don't feel like you need to donate that amount per person. You can donate $1.00 per person and come walk with us...we just want your company and support.

You should know that The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society offers other items for larger donations. I don't want to make this confusing, so I'm just going to say this...if you would like to make a larger donation, an additional $25.00 will get you an illuminated balloon and an additional $100.00 will get you a Light the Night t-shirt and balloon. Certainly I'm not telling you these things because I want you to feel obligated...but I also didn't want you to wonder why you didn't get a pretty balloon. :)

Hope this finds all of you well and ready for fall. Dave is counting down the days until Ohio State kicks off and I am cleaning out drawers and sweeping behind the fridge! My doctor assures me it's called nesting and it only means Marshall is this much closer! YIPPPPEEE!