I want to thank my sister, Ann, for traveling ALL the way in from southern California to walk with me.  My sister is the greatest!  I also want to send a big congratulatory hug to my cousin, Anne, for completing her first 5K at this year’s Komen Walk.  Way to go, Anne!

The following picture is of my family from this year’s walk:

The next photo is a picture of Barb’s Army from the 2012 Komen Walk.  It made our local Happenings Magazine and apparently is being used for some Komen advertising.  Pretty cool!  I think my cousin, Katie, designed last year’s shirts.  They look pretty awesome, don’t they?

Hey, Barb’s Army!

I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your participation this year.  Whether you walked with us**, made a donation, joined us at the brunch, or bought a t-shirt, I wanted you all to know how much I truly appreciate your love and support.   I hope that you will consider joining me again next year and possibly even sooner as I hope to join forces with a breast cancer research foundation very soon.  It will give me a great sense of pride knowing that the money that we’ve worked so hard to raise together is going towards a wonderful cause.  Thanks to your benevolence, I collected close to $500 (through direct donations and from extra t-shirt money) which has been added to the growing fundraising fund.  I can’t thank you enough.  I hope and pray that a cure for cancer will be found in my children’s lifetime.  Although I’m not gifted enough to find a cure myself, raising money for research is something that we can do together.  Thanks again.  You will never know just how thankful I am to have the support of my family and friends.

LIVESTRONG and God Bless!

With Love and Gratitude,

Barb

**I don’t think many of us walked together!  Somehow, I ended up jogging with the stroller after Chase for 3 miles while Sal carried Cameron for 3 miles and Sal’s sister, Audra, pushed 6-year-old, Jameson, and 2-year-old, Andie, in her double stroller for 3 miles!  I’m sorry that I didn’t get to speak with so many of you as much as I would have liked to.  The brunch, also, is a blur in that I had to leave with Jameson for her soccer game.  It’s called life with 3 kids and I wouldn’t have it any other way!  Thanks again!

P.S.  If you registered on Komen’s website for another person, kindly pass this message on to those that you registered for.  Thank you!