The March of Dimes walk, the march for babies, was about educating moms about the importance of staying healthy. It also raises money for research to prevent early delivery and treating premature babies. When I was pregnant, I took very good care of myself. Even though I knew the importance of staying healthy, I still had issues, which can happen. We decided to start a team, walk with the boys, and try to raise money. We ended up raising over 2,000. I can't even believe that we did that well. I figured we would raise a few hundred, but we had lots of friends and family that donated. We even won an award! I have no idea what it is, but we were invited to a dinner for it, haha.
We started the walk at 8 am. It was hoooot outside! Thankfully, we had bought big visors for the strollers and fans, so the boys stayed nice and cool. We had about 20 people are on our team. Our team name was "Little Shamrocks" . I figure it was fitting because they had the luck of the Irish. We started off in the Family tent, where we met our team members, and listened to music from some local singers on stage. The boys had no idea what was happening, but they were in a good mood, and that's all that mattered.
We walked 3 miles around the Nova Southeastern campus. It was a bit of an emotional walk, because halfway through, they had what was called an area donated to angels. There were poster boards with the names of babies that had passed on. It was very sad. They also had an angel baby ceremony on the main stage while people were walking. I did not stay to see it, because I would have been a wreck. I saw lots of parents holding the signs later on, and I just wanted to hug them, but at the same time not get arrested for being a weirdie. Moving on, I'm getting teary...
Everyone on our team had a March of Dimes family T-shirt, and our team name was on the back. They were a bit heavy, note to self for next year...tanks.
I hope we see them soon!
Yea! We found them! They were so big!! The best was, we get to keep them! We took some team pics, and picked them up to finish our walk!
We kept on walking with our posters in hand. I knew we were getting closer when I heard yelling and noisemakers. We hit the end of the walk and were handed little stickers that said "I Did It!" We crossed the line and cheered! We headed back to the family tent for all of the festivities! The first thing we did was took a pic of us in front of our banner.
We took a few pics of the boys with our team mates. The boys won a prize for cheering the loudest when the prize patrol came by. They won a gift certificate, and beads, which Patrick loves!
We all gathered up with some food and had some lunch. They had Chick-Fil-A, McDonalds, and Panera Bread. Dunkin Doughnuts even showed up. They had local tv stations handing out fun stuff, and games everywhere. They also had Elmo, the Nesquick Bunny, and pirates! The boys did very well with all of them!
Broward General had their own tent set up there, so a lot of the nurses that took care of the boys were there. We met up with them to take some pictures, and took one giant pic for the boys of all of us.
It was a fun day, and we definitely do it again next year!
Love to all!
Next blog....1st Birthday!!!!! Stay tuned!
Emily, Craig, Brady and Patrick
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