Last night the Manville/Hillsborough Elks hosted a comedy show starring Denny More. For those of you who don't know who he is, keep your eyes peeled for his next show, this man is amazing! Denny is a comedian, magician, hypnotist that did some things that I would never believe if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes and known practically everyone in the audience who participated! I just can't stop thinking about this show. The night was a huge success with the Elks raising a total of $1700 for our son Jake. Paul and I were fortunate enough to have help help from our friends with Weston School's PTA, who succeeded in selling $300 in chances, totaling 6 tickets to 6 lucky winners for the night for "Jake's Escape" New SUV raffle set to go off on September 12th at The American Legion Post #304 here in Manville NJ.
This night for us was more than entertaining, more than a fundraiser. I want to extend a heartfelt thanks to everyone in attendance. You all made the night exactly what it was and that is a night to remember! Thank you all for the memories and good times. I just keep remembering more funny things that happened!
The Elks members who volunteered in the organization, set up and presentation of this event did a fantastic job! It is solely because of them that this night was possible. I can only hope that the evening was as enjoyable for the folks working the event as it was for those of us in attendance. It was really hard to sit still and not be constantly on the move helping out with the event, but it was made very clear to me when I first arrived for the night with Jake to meet the volunteers that this was my job for the evening. The night started with us being surrounded by the warmth and love of everyone there and ended with us all in hysterics!
We were blessed to meet many of you, who were friends of friends, coworkers of someone who knows someone else that knows us or someone in our family and then some! I have so many stories that came from this one night, it's incredible! We discovered that our friend's sister is good friends with our cousin's girlfriend! We also realized that a family that has been very helpful to us with several events for Jake is the same family that entrusted their own son's daily care when he was a child to my own mother. Small World. Getting smaller every day, and that's just two of the stories!
Coming into this great weekend we received a call from Jake's Endocrinologist and he doesn't want to see us back until the end of the summer with instructions to keep adding calories to Jakes diet whenever possible. In closing tonight I look to my left at our "Little Bit" sitting and eating a bowl of Haagen Dazs Chocolate ice cream, drinking his milk, and singing "We're on our way to Grandpa's Farm".
I'll say it again; life is good!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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