2019 Walk For Life: Success

Yesterday was Alpha Pregnancy Center's Walk for Life. As I mentioned before this year was a big deal for us because we were bringing our boys along to the event -- and not just the after party with the bounce house. 

We walked and walked, all morning long. William asking every 10 minutes or so how much further we had to go. Three miles is long walk for this guy and in the end it was more like 3.75 miles but he did it! I'm so proud . . . even if he did say "I'm never doing this again" at one point. Stephen lucked out and was pushed in the stroller. We knew if we didn't bring it, our backs would take a beating trying to carry him that far. He did walk for nearly half a mile. Walking with friends helps. 

We got to walk with a lot of friends this year and we had a huge team! Dan and Val are friends from church and anytime we get to spend with them is a blessing. Dan is a great photographer too so I'm looking forward to seeing what he captured yesterday. Matthew and his daughter Catica are long time friends too. Matthew and I were on a team together for my very first walk! And Brittany is a friend through the Walk for Life. She was placed on my team three years ago and we've been friends ever since. This is our third year walking together (and the second time her mom and mother-in-law joined in!) And one more gentleman joined our team, Robert (not pictured) -- so we made another friend too!

After the delivering the gifts to Alpha's clients we made our way to the park for a big celebration lunch -- and the bounce house. And this year, the boys got glitter tattoos and cotton candy. 

(Sorry for the big-head perspective)

The directors of Alpha announced that they had raised over $8,000 through the event this year and had 150 walkers delivering gifts to 50 families! And you all blew me away with donating over $1400 to sponsor our family walking! Amazing! I'm so thrilled!

One more thing: this year I had coordinated a service project with my MOPS group to serve Alpha in a big way. We hauled all the gift items to our church so that during our 2-hour meeting we could bag them up for each parent and child. In 90 minutes we had packaged 120 gift-bags! It was an amazing event to watch and be a part of. (And a lot of work getting it ready and put away again.) 

I'm so glad my whole family could participate this year. And that I could get our MOPS group to partner with the center as well. Thank you for your prayers and support for Alpha!!

Yesterday was Alpha Pregnancy Center's Walk for Life. As I mentioned before this year was a big deal for us because we were bringing our boys along to the event -- and not just the after party with the bounce house. 

We walked and walked, all morning long. William asking every 10 minutes or so how much further we had to go. Three miles is long walk for this guy and in the end it was more like 3.75 miles but he did it! I'm so proud . . . even if he did say "I'm never doing this again" at one point. Stephen lucked out and was pushed in the stroller. We knew if we didn't bring it, our backs would take a beating trying to carry him that far. He did walk for nearly half a mile. Walking with friends helps. 

We got to walk with a lot of friends this year and we had a huge team! Dan and Val are friends from church and anytime we get to spend with them is a blessing. Dan is a great photographer too so I'm looking forward to seeing what he captured yesterday. Matthew and his daughter Catica are long time friends too. Matthew and I were on a team together for my very first walk! And Brittany is a friend through the Walk for Life. She was placed on my team three years ago and we've been friends ever since. This is our third year walking together (and the second time her mom and mother-in-law joined in!) And one more gentleman joined our team, Robert (not pictured) -- so we made another friend too!

After the delivering the gifts to Alpha's clients we made our way to the park for a big celebration lunch -- and the bounce house. And this year, the boys got glitter tattoos and cotton candy. 

(Sorry for the big-head perspective)

The directors of Alpha announced that they had raised over $8,000 through the event this year and had 150 walkers delivering gifts to 50 families! And you all blew me away with donating over $1400 to sponsor our family walking! Amazing! I'm so thrilled!

One more thing: this year I had coordinated a service project with my MOPS group to serve Alpha in a big way. We hauled all the gift items to our church so that during our 2-hour meeting we could bag them up for each parent and child. In 90 minutes we had packaged 120 gift-bags! It was an amazing event to watch and be a part of. (And a lot of work getting it ready and put away again.) 

I'm so glad my whole family could participate this year. And that I could get our MOPS group to partner with the center as well. Thank you for your prayers and support for Alpha!!

SIX YEARS OLD

William Bradley is six years old today. Is it strange to admit that when I had a baby I never really imagined what it'd be like to have a school aged child? (or a teenager or an adult son . . . ) But he keeps growing and I need to adjust my ideas of who this baby of mine is and is becoming! It's exciting.

He loves learning about and pretending to be animals. Not dogs or cats, but animals like perigean falcons, honey badgers, and black jaguars. He also loves dinosaurs and more recently dragons. He doesn't really like playing by himself, he would much rather play with a friend, a parent or his brother (if he plays along with the rules...). He loves watching sports with dad and playing football, soccer and basketball with friends at school during recess. Over the summer he really got into swimming and will do lessons again next month. He is pretty competitive and always wants to know who was the best swimmer, player or runner. What he really wants to hear is "you were the best one!"

He also really likes drawing and he is pretty creative in what he comes up with. Mostly animals but he is expanding his subjects more now. With both William and Stephen drawing more, we've nearly gone through an entire ream of paper this year! Those afternoons of coloring or drawing are my favorite moments. They cooperate, they're quiet and creative. And I love hearing their stories about what they drew.

He loves going to school and seems to be doing well. He has made some really great friends already. He really likes his teacher and even wants to become a teacher when he grows up! That or a professional football player (yikes!). He doesn't speak too much in Spanish at home yet, but does come home with new words all the time. It's the songs that get stuck in his head and he sings those for days!

It's been a really fun year with this guy -- he has grown and learned so much and we are so very proud of him.

William Bradley is six years old today. Is it strange to admit that when I had a baby I never really imagined what it'd be like to have a school aged child? (or a teenager or an adult son . . . ) But he keeps growing and I need to adjust my ideas of who this baby of mine is and is becoming! It's exciting.

He loves learning about and pretending to be animals. Not dogs or cats, but animals like perigean falcons, honey badgers, and black jaguars. He also loves dinosaurs and more recently dragons. He doesn't really like playing by himself, he would much rather play with a friend, a parent or his brother (if he plays along with the rules...). He loves watching sports with dad and playing football, soccer and basketball with friends at school during recess. Over the summer he really got into swimming and will do lessons again next month. He is pretty competitive and always wants to know who was the best swimmer, player or runner. What he really wants to hear is "you were the best one!"

He also really likes drawing and he is pretty creative in what he comes up with. Mostly animals but he is expanding his subjects more now. With both William and Stephen drawing more, we've nearly gone through an entire ream of paper this year! Those afternoons of coloring or drawing are my favorite moments. They cooperate, they're quiet and creative. And I love hearing their stories about what they drew.

He loves going to school and seems to be doing well. He has made some really great friends already. He really likes his teacher and even wants to become a teacher when he grows up! That or a professional football player (yikes!). He doesn't speak too much in Spanish at home yet, but does come home with new words all the time. It's the songs that get stuck in his head and he sings those for days!

It's been a really fun year with this guy -- he has grown and learned so much and we are so very proud of him.