On Saturday and Sunday, we participated in our third annualRelay for Life, where we rocked it as Team Scott.
In the brutal Maryland heat and humidity, our team walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked some more.
Along with our online fundraising efforts before the event, we also do face painting and sell tattoos and glow sticks to raise money (and have some fun!) during the event.
Katie is the best face and hand painter in the land!
This year, the uncertain weather had us on our toes. Although the heavy rains and 50 mph winds didn't end up showing up for our event, we did have showers scattered throughout the afternoon.
But lucky for us, our loved ones gave us a rainbow to celebrate our efforts and to send us a hug from heaven.
our Relay rainbow
Our team was established to honor our good friend, Scott, who left us--and many, many friends, family members, colleagues, students, soccer players, and of course, his wife, their 3-year-old daughter, and the daughter who was born three months after he passed away--waaaay too early.
We remember our friend, and we miss him so terribly.
But we Relay to honor and remember our many other family members and friends who battled this disease--cancer.
The Relay is also a time to celebrate our family members and friends who are currently fighting this disease. We can't imagine how hard it is for them or what they have to go through every day.
We think about their caregivers.
We think about their parents, their sons and daughters, their sisters and brothers, their nieces and nephews.
And no matter how challenging things may seem for us at the time--for me at least--the Relay always puts things in perspective.
When the sun sets and the luminaria light the track, emotions are heavy.
But the hope we feel lightens our spirits.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to Team Scott; we are proud to say that we are very close to our fundraising goal of $2500.00, but we're not quite there yet! If you are able to contribute, know that anything helps and that we are grateful for every penny.
Click here to donate to Team Scott's Relay for Life Team.
Please check out our friend, Neyal Ammary-Rische's book, In Mommy's Garden. It's an incredible, award-winning book designed to help explain cancer to young children. Thanks for coming by the Relay, Neyal!
For more information on the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life or to see if there's a Relay close to you, click here.
Thanks to everyone on Team Scott, the most amazing Relay Team in the history of Relay teams.
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Congratulations on a successful walk and thanks for sharing the wonderful photos in memory of your friend, Scott.
ReplyDeleteOh man, and I'm back to crying, this is all too real still to me with my friend.
ReplyDeleteI'll see if we can donate.
We did our 7th Relay for Life this year here in PA. It is a fantastic event and we've always loved how it brings family and friends together to remember someone very important. Glad yours was a success and that your loved one sent a rainbow. Todd, who we walk in honor of, only sends lightning, high winds, extreme heat or cold or heavy rains. He was always a jokester that one :)
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