Thank you for another wonderful Buddy Walk!
This year my sister-in-law, Jill, helped me come up with our logo: "Hoo Loves Ammon." I saw these cute stuffed owls at our farmers market and I thought I could make those. So I made a lot of them to sell at our little lemonade stand (Lil'tweets) that we do every year to get the word out to our neighbors about the Buddy Walk.
Coleson loved manning the table and Brynn liked unlimited popcorn. Thank you again to all that were able to stop by and say Hi to Ammon!
Brian and I started the day of the Buddy Walk running the Buddy 5K. We pushed the kids in the jogger, and it wanted to consistently go right (the wheels were messed up). Brian and I took turns pushing. Yes, my dear husband was right by my side the whole race. It was so nice! He has been running with the young men in our neighborhood to get ready for our neighborhood 5K this coming week, so we were able to keep pace with each other and it was wonderful.
Our primary goal for the Buddy Walk is to always have someone new join us, and we've always been blessed with new friends joining us each year. We really just want everyone to experience this uplifting event. Several of our friends that were new participants this year won their categories in the 5K, and ended up walking home with some pretty interesting prizes: a sleeping bag and a desk lamp. Brian's brother did extremely well in his category again this year! One of the families at the Buddy Walk was sponsored by Living the Dream Foundation. We had the opportunity to talk with Scotty, the founder, who has Cystic Fibrosis. His vision is to share the positive in life, despite having a serious disease. He now travels around the country raising money on behalf of children who have life threatening illnesses. What an inspirational group of people! We all ended up hugging each other at the end of the day, with promises to see each other again next year. He lives in Southern California and is backed by Hurley. It's so nice to meet wonderful people who choose to spend their time and money doing good in the world and have such a positive impact.
It was a beautiful day and the kids wore themselves out! The Bee came to the Buddy Walk and it reminded us of another picture we have of Ammon and the Bee from several years ago.
Thank you again to all the family and friends who came and supported our sweet Ammon. Some days you might not hear too much out of Ammon, but through some special moments and alot of experience being with him, we've come to learn that every little hello is noticed and welcomed by Ammon. You might not get a physical wave of the hand, a hearty hello, or a smile every time you stop to touch his hand or bend down to say hello, but please know every little touch and acknowledgment means so much. None of them go unnoticed by Ammon, or by us. I guess you never know until after you do something, but maybe on a particular day it will be your kind gesture and your warm hello towards Ammon that elicits a happy uncontainable shout out, an enormous smile, and hands simply waving everywhere. The translation of which is Ammon's special way of saying, "I love you too!"
Thank you all for showing so well and in so many ways "Hoo loves Ammon!" We are reminded every day that life doesn't need to be perfect to be wonderful.
