Relay for Life!

We recently participated in the Relay for Life in Price, UT.  This is a fundraiser for Cancer Research.  Participants set up teams and work to earn funds.  Walkers are then set to walk to track from 6:30 pm until 7 am the next morning.  A member of each team needs to be walking the track at all times.  My sister, Jenny, organized a team in honor of my dad this year.  Last Ocotober he was disgnosed with Prostate Cancer.  After 4 very intense radiation treatments he was declared cancer free in January. We walked in his honor! 

At the walk survivors are honored and get to take the first lap around the track.  This year the survivors were lead by Riley(3) and Brailey (2), 2 little children in the community who are fighting cancer.  They also asked for those who had just found out this year that they had cancer to lead, so my dad, towering over the crowd, lead the Survivors Lap!  The purple shirts are worn by those who are fighting cancer and surviving!

Round and Round the track we went!  We ran, we walked, we tracked our laps with beads.  There was a dunk tank that wasn't being used, so we asked if we could try it out!  Domenic wanted to volunteer.  Sure said the committe member, and up he went!

 I tried knocking him in several times, even hit the target, but to no avail.  A little adjustment to the seat, a few teenage boys tossing the balls and "SPLASH" in went Domenic!  Hold up says a new committee member, they have to be 18!  Oh well, says our original worker.  Next lap around and the dunk tank was drained!  Our little trooper was the only one to get to use it!  Lucky!

At midnight they started a dancing competition that went on until nearly 2 am.  Skyler was going and going, and one of the youngest participants and few boys.  He bounced ping pong balls out of his kleenex box like a pro, then he showed how he could Gangham Style like the best of them!

The moon was almost at Super Moon phase (1 day away), but it was bright and beautiful.  My babies were troopers and stayed up so long, selling cupcakes, playing, dancing and enjoying the party feeling.  Domenic alone trudged around 6 miles worth!  Finally around 3 am they crashed, sleeping out under the canopy.

In the end I completed 17.5 miles.  I was exhausted by the end of the trek.  I really do not know how people can just run marathons in 6 hours or less and survive!  Amazing!  I trudged on for nearly 12 hours.  We had such a great time!  I went a total of 47, 804 steps!  I won a prize for it, yippee!!  It was such a fun night!  The kids loved walking, staying up late, and being a part of the teenage crowds!  What a great way to celebrate life!