R is for Ronnebeck!

Official as of today we have resigned our position as the Co-Event chair of Highline Relay for Life. This decision was not made with haste, but in complete love, patience, and prayer. When I started Relaying in 2009 weeks after Mom was diagnosed, I could think of nothing more than getting top of that Relay pyramid and helping fight cancer harder, faster, longer, with bigger bang all so my Mom wasn't alone in the fight. A few weeks before Relay this year, Donna and I met, and I had a heavy heart. Being the Co-Chair had taken from me what I was thriving to earn when I started this journey, the closeness I felt to my Mom. I looked across the table at my newly diagnosed friend, and had a tall order, I had to tell her, a hero in my eyes, that I didn't want to lead this Relay anymore. I was petrified. But once the words fell out of my mouth, it was met with a hand held, and a "Me either". We were both hanging in the chaos for the other, we were both fighting t...

 This weekend was unexpectedly filled to the brim with things to do! Christina had texted me and asked if we wanted to hang out Saturday... Little did I know we'd have a blast all DAY long!  We started out our morning at the Farmers market at the Des Moines Marina. We walked, ate yummy FM food, and then headed down to the beach to let the girls play in the tide pools. As you can imagine they don't get to play in the ocean much in Yuma Arizona. This little one was not scared at ALL to touch everything she could find! I think she'll be a perfect Pacific North westerner. She's such a Doll! Baby Harvey slept through the entire day... Mostly :) After lots of playing we headed to Tacoma for a bite to eat and landed at the Cliff House restaurant. It's BEAUTIFUL! I never even knew it existed! I'm pretty excited to eat ...

File this post under "Things I absolutely Love about our city"!!! We were meeting up with Ivan and Dawn for dinner in Georgetown and we happened upon this crazy "Honk Fest" going on in the street! There were a bunch of marching bands, and a couple drum lines doing their thing, we got to see the Blue Thunder (the SeaHawks drum line), and the Seattle Sounders Band rocking out in the streets, pretty awesome. Mostly, we got to hang out in the streets and enjoy the city. It was an awesome night!!

 So... remember that time I allowed a purple monster to swollow my life and then I totally forgot to blog the pictures from it? Well, Relay is that purple monster, and this year was the time I forgot to Blog the photos... but better late than never! Here they are!  Donna & I at Opening Ceremony!  Here we are handing out our Grand Club shirts to our 30 Grand Club Members!!  We Teach them to Relay young.... These girls are JUST learning to walk - so we put them on the track to see if they'd go... they just sat, and gave us some cute lil smiles!  This one... However, learned to walk at Relay last year... and this year she was All over the place, and even helped us tear down some decorations!  I just love this little Relayin' Family!  Our skilled Luminaria chair managed to spell out HOPE in the stands, and then change HOPE to CURE... Good Job Chris!  My 45 + Luminaria's... Too many people! ...