This weekend, we met our friends Dave, Cynthia, & Olivia at SeaWorld for the "Shamu & You" fundraising walk to benefit Rady Children's Hospital. Dave & Cynthia's youngest daughter, Kailey, had to undergo heart surgery when she was just one and a half months old. She's thankfully recovering very well because of God's amazing grace and the excellent care she received at Children's, and is currently awaiting another surgery to repair her esophagus. We were excited to form "Team Kailey" and represent her at the walk!
Team Kailey (left to right): Cynthia, Dave, Katie, Dan, me, and big sister Olivia in front
Sweet Kailey
We wore signs saying "I'm walking for Kailey," and we got a nice shout-out from the announcer at the start line! The walk was SO crowded that it was slow going a lot of the time. It was great to see so many people supporting Children's, but man, they had us packed tight!
SeaWorld brought out some animals for the kids to meet along the way. The highlight for Olivia was meeting Pete the penguin!
She also met this llama, whose name we didn't get because she was less than thrilled about getting too close to him. (He freaked me out a little, too, I'm not going to lie.)
Finishing up the one-mile walk. There was another path that continued for 3 more miles, which we opted out of because we were starving!
Afterwards, we ate a hearty breakfast at the Broken Yolk. Dan stood no chance whatsoever against that smile & those flirty eyes. :)
We love this family! Please keep Kailey in your prayers! We hope next year we can do the walk with her, too!
As a sidenote, this was Dan's first event with a "race bib." He's now rocking a personal best time of 1 hour and 15 minutes for a 1 mile race. I told him he might want to work on his pace a little. Ha!
Team Kailey (left to right): Cynthia, Dave, Katie, Dan, me, and big sister Olivia in front
Sweet Kailey
We wore signs saying "I'm walking for Kailey," and we got a nice shout-out from the announcer at the start line! The walk was SO crowded that it was slow going a lot of the time. It was great to see so many people supporting Children's, but man, they had us packed tight!
SeaWorld brought out some animals for the kids to meet along the way. The highlight for Olivia was meeting Pete the penguin!
She also met this llama, whose name we didn't get because she was less than thrilled about getting too close to him. (He freaked me out a little, too, I'm not going to lie.)
Finishing up the one-mile walk. There was another path that continued for 3 more miles, which we opted out of because we were starving!
Afterwards, we ate a hearty breakfast at the Broken Yolk. Dan stood no chance whatsoever against that smile & those flirty eyes. :)
We love this family! Please keep Kailey in your prayers! We hope next year we can do the walk with her, too!
1 comment:
Such a great event! Go, Dan go! I see a trend with "firsts", lately... What's next? I'm sure it'll be interesting so I'm staying tuned!!!!
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