Buddy Walk Weekend

We had a VERY tiring, but super exciting weekend. Saturday was our MONSTER yard sale. All of our mommy group friends were so wonderful and contributed sacrificially to the sale. Many people donated items for us to sell, and several also donated their time. We have a lot of individual thank you's to be sending out. We really could not have done it without all of your support. Special thanks to:

Shey: for allowing us to use her house, take up her entire garage for 2 weeks, helping me haul stuff up her steep drive-way at 5am, and working like a dog all day :)

Stephanie: The whole idea was hers (not to mention some larger items :), she also helped me sort and tag stuff one day, and spent a good deal of the day working the sale with us

Angela: Who set up and ran "Sasha's Cafe" (her idea), where she sold coffee, mocha, lattes, hot chocolate, homemade pumpkin spice muffins, and donuts. And she came very early to help haul stuff up the giant hill.

Allison and Jason: Who gave us a larger table (in order to accommodate our growing family), donated some great items to the sale, and helped set up early in the morning

Alyssa: Who despite being pregnant and having a husband with a crazy schedule managed to find time to come just as the sun was peeking over the horizon to help set up

Melina and Scott: For overnighting me boxes of stuff to sell

Carlyn, Jessica, Sara, The Dillon Family, & Ms. Georgia: Who all donated SO much!

EVERYONE WHO PRAYED FOR THE SUCCESS OF THIS SALE!!!!

We made $1150!

Eating some early morning Banana Bread on Ms. Shey's porch

Our next exciting venture was our very first Buddy Walk. This is a walk sponsored by PADS (Parent Advocates Down Syndrome). It is an annual event held in various venues around the nation. Birmingham's happened to be this weekend, and we were fortunate enough to go and get connected with other Reece's Rainbow families. We met up with some amazing people, one of whom happened to be Andrea, the founder of Reece's Rainbow. She really is a beautiful woman with a shining spirit. The kids had fun, too (in bounce houses, eating suckers and getting tattooed :)