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Hope for a Cure

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Hope for a Cure
Photo-A-Day #1526

Today Allison, Eva and I participated in the Relay for Life at our local High School. We had a really nice time. Eva enjoyed running around the track, stopping and looking at all the luminarias and spending time with her Memere. I had a great time taking photos all over the place and I even did a video, I’ll do more tomorrow and put it all together too.

While making the videos there were four teen girls who followed me for much of the shot. I didn’t know they were there until I got back to our tents. It is pretty funny, can’t wait to shot you the video. For now here are some shots I took.

Family Photo
The family in front of our team’s sign. Notice that we are all wearing our custom "BenSpark is Blogging This" T-shirts from Market Leverage. We love these shirts and they got a lot of attention.

Dadda is blogging this
Eva at the Relay for Life sporting her custom "Benspark is Blogging This" shirt from Market Leverage

Dadda is Blogging this
Eav and I modeling the "Benspark is Blogging This" shirts from Market Leverage

Running Momma
Eva running down the track with Allison following.

Lions
Eva so these luminarias with lions on them and had to stop

Eva hydrating
Having a little sippy sip (been watching too much of the Thundershow) before going back on the track.

Rainbow at Relay for Life
It was raining when we started the relay but the sun came out and so did a full rainbow, it was so big I could not get it all in the shot.

So many great people helped us out with donations and we raised $375 here at BenSpark.com. Our Team The Sacred Heart Stewards raised over $9,000 – So Awesome!

More donations can still be received, only $125 away from our $500 goal!!

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Pajama Party at SOTPlayhouse

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Pajama Party at SOTPlayhouse
Photo-A-Day #1484

Today when I woke up I saw that my friends SmilieShorts and Chica kicked butt for hours and commented like champs. They went above and beyond to help me try and win a comment contest to get $400 for Walking 4 2nd Base. And then I’d have gotten $400 for me which I was going to use for four of my favorite charities. Alas their efforts, while fantastic and again, above and beyond, were just not enough. I sent out calls for help through most of the past month to nearly 700 people and then there was my twitter reach and the calls fell on many deaf ears. It happens, we move on.

SmilieShorts is doing the Relay for life tonight and that is after staying up till midnight last night commenting on this blog. She has a goal of $100 in fund raising and she is 10% there because I donated. Can my readers match me? Let’s help April reach her goal.

Christian from Speed of Thought Playhouse also commented at 2:53am. He said that there was a Pajama Party tonight at Speed of Thought Playhouse. I went on down to check it out and became the official video man for the night. It was another night of wild and crazy improv fun. I need to figure out a better way of securing the camera. However, after many different positions for the camera I finally figured out the best place to put it. I finally got everything working. I think that eventually we’ll get some places set up for more permanent camera locations.