Dear Family and Friends,

     
Thank you so very much for your continued support and encouragement over the last four years. There is no way I could have come this far without each and every one of you. I appreciate your support and kindness over the past several years and I can’t say it enough, thank you, thank you, thank you. Well, as everyone is aware, I completed the Grand Canyon hike last month. I know what you are thinking because I heard it quite a bit “ girl you are crazy ‘, in fact just the opposite just determined. It was the most difficult and rigorous event I have ever participated in and I literally had to pray and sing my way out of the canyon. I discovered why almost three hundred people died there every year hiking this magnificent creation and I saw a gentlemen almost fall to his death in an attempt to get a photograph. This continues to be a very physical, mental, spiritual and emotional challenge for me. However, this seems minor in comparison to the thousands of individuals who are affected by Leukemia and other blood related cancers. Leukemia and other blood related cancers remains the number one killer of our children. Every twelve minutes in the United States, we will loose a child to this form of cancer.