This morning was the Congenital Heart Walk!! This was the first year that we were able to attend the walk and I'm so glad we did. I had a million ideas for creating "Team Owen" shirts and I even created a way cool design. Then October disappeared and November crept up on us, and I didn't get around to our shirts. Bummer. No worries, I plan to use the design and get shirts made for Ethan's Run in February. There is always next year too!
We woke up early and headed to what I thought was the correct ball field. Turns out I drove to the wrong ball field and got lost in Tempe due to a billion road closures. Ugh. We finally made our way to the stadium, but just missed the 5k and fun run. We decided to have fun while we waited for all the walkers to get back! We were there to raise awareness, have fun and donate some money.
The first obstacle was to find our way to the ball field. We found a ramp to go up to the main concourse, but the only way onto the field, was to carry the stroller down the stairs. We did find a service elevator and took it to a totally creepy basement, wandered around for a while and realized we were trapped as all the doors were locked to the field. Back to the elevator we went. The kids thought it was great!!
We finally made our way down to the field and the girls got their faces painted. Kamryn wanted a heart with a bandaid for her baby bro!
Gigi then asked for 1/2 a heart for her favorite cousin!
We wandered around and they had this giant photo of Owen hung on the fence. He was around 15 months at the time.. look at those baby blues!
It was so great to see fellow heart families, cardiologists, some of our nurses, and the sponsors.
Owen took a picture with his fellow HLHSer Zoe. They had a huge team and rocked the fundraising. Next year.. we will aim to match their efforts!! :)
Owen wanted to play in the bouncy castles and go down the slide over and over again...
The kids had a fantastic time and the weather couldn't have been nicer!! It was a gorgeous 65 degrees and sunny! We are so proud of our little heart Superhero Owen! He is a survivor and he is the toughest little man we know. We were proud to represent Mister Owen today at the CHD Walk!!
1 comment:
awww, that picture of Owen when he was little looks so much like my son did at that age. I think that is just a little bit of the reason Owen won my heart :)
Glad you all had fun.
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