May 16th- A day for Hope

May 16th, 2015 Year 4 Day 16

FREE PRETZEL #16

Four years ago on May 19th our family, along with the Grugan and Davies families and friends, came together to celebrate Kevin and Kate Grugan's daughter Hope, who has Angelman's Syndrome.  The ASF walk was held at Cooper River, basically around the corner from our house.  Last year the walk was moved to an elementary school in Reading, PA, but because our family caught the plague, we were unable to attend.  This year was our first year in the new place.

Hope getting her FREE PRETZEL

Without getting too long winded and sparing a lot of details, that most of your already know, Kate Davies is my good friend from Delran and Kevin is my good friend from Notre Dame. I introduced them to each other and now they have three kids.  Ta-Da! Family and friend have been extremely active in supporting the Angelman Syndrome FoundationAngelman Syndrome Foundation with many fundraisers and raising awareness for the disease. I have linked the website to this page if you click above.
A fun day was had by all and the foundation really puts on a nice event.
Here are some pictures from the day:

Declan, Jack, Kevin and Erin enjoying pretzels

A good size crowd for this event.

My goddaughter Erin, with daddy and her brother Jack.

The weather was great.  The company is the best and the cause is important.  We especially enjoyed our kids wearing themselves out for the car ride home.  As I have said in the blog before, we look forward to this day every year.

A special happy birthday shout out to first grade teacher at Johnson, Rebecca Egbert.  I hope you had a great day and weekend!

Until tomorrow...