Relay For Life 2011

Another successful year for our relay team.   We were able to raise over 5,000.00. Over the last seven years we have raised over 5,000.00 (gold) or 2,500.00 (silver).... not bad for a team of less than 15 members. That's our team leader Doris next to the tent.

This year the theme was "Relaying around the World."  We each picked a nationality to represent, being my father was born in Switzerland, that was the country I picked. I even had a cow bell from Switzerland that a team member brought me.

As usual we all had a great time and had a lot of support from friends that came out to help us walk the track. One of our church members came out and did forty laps around the the track, another one brought us pizza at about 11 pm and ran 8 miles on the track for us.  We had to have someone on the   track for the full 24 hours...........it gets cold at about 4 am.  We had a fire pit and played card games most of the night.

Finally able to load pictures!

I haven't been blogging lately but it was because I haven't tried.  I just could not get my pictures to upload.........finally my son came over and don't ask me what he did but as you can see here are some of my pictures taken from Memorial Day. 

Our church family decided to put a float in the village parade.  We've been in the parade before but never really decorated a float.  We decided to make a window in the same shape as our church window, only decorate it with red, white, and blue tissue flowers. 

For the center of the float we had a sign that could be read on both sides. They gave their tomorrows for our todays.  Their sacrific will never be forgotten. Very heart warming.

We also posted the names of veterans (past and present) from our church around the perimeter of the float.

We put a cross with flowers and flags on the back.  My son pulled it with his tractor.  Fourteen of us rode on it.  We recieved many compliments for the hard work we all put into it.  It was a great success. Several of us got together the Sat. before and spent nine hours putting it together.

We have a really great church family.