Good news for you all!!

We have decided to extend the early bird registration until the end of the month for the 7th Annual Children’s Fight for Life event!!  I promise you that you will not regret buying tickets to this event.  Not only is it is filled with amazing silent auction items, raffle, casino tables, dinner, and of course fun…you are also contributing to the needs of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

You all know how much we support the Center and we hope you will too.  There is so much more to the Center than you would think.  The doctors and nurses are top notch.  They are amazing and we appreciate them so much.  The Center also provides Child Life to the patients, social workers to the families, physical therapist, and nurtritionalist to each family.  There is a one week camp that is put on every summer, Camp Rainbow, for all of the oncology patients.  They give scholarships, participate in trials, perform research, help children through school when they are in their care….the list goes on and on.  They provide care for the entire well being of the family…even the siblings.

I cannot tell you how important this facility is and how much we need you to support us in this night.  Put up a list at your work, on your Facebook, email….put together a list of 10 and gather groups of friends, coworkers, family, neighbors, and buy a table for the night.

We have our table of 10 and we are so thankful for our friends and family who are putting together theirs.  If you don’t want to do a table, but a single ticket, a couple.  If you cannot come, we accept donations and of course no donation is too small.  We are still in need of sponsors for the night…please email me at lmorton@thejackmortonfoundation.org if you are interested and I will get you the information you need.

November 3, 2012

Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center

6:00 Pm-10:00 PM

Single ticket: $100

Couple: $190

Table of 10: $925

www.childrensfightforlife.com

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!  Buy tickets now while you get the early bird pricing!!

A few more pics from last year!

I promise this was a good conversation with our social worker, Marcia! (Her and Zac look a bit intense!)

The 7th Annual Children’s Fight for Life Event is slowly approaching, but now is the time to buy tickets!!  Early bird registration is going on now and you all need to sign up to come!  All proceeds from this event go to the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at PCH and we want to make this year bigger than ever but we can’t do that without your help!

The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders provides complete care for children diagnosed with malignancies and/or life-threatening hematologic diseases and is supported solely by individual and corporate contributions.  The Center uses all donations to provide laboratory, medical, and psychological support for Arizona children and their families.

As you can imagine, we are very passionate about doing anything we can to support PCH, especially the clinic.  We hope you all come out and  join us! Casino Night offers dinner, silent and live auction, and casino tables and of course the great feeling of knowing you are doing something to make a difference!   The event will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 6:00 to 10:30 p.m. at the Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center.  For those of you who came last year…we hope you join us again!  We had 3 full tables of our close friends and family there that night and this year we hope to have many more!

Last year I took names through email and sent them all in at once so we could get 10 to a table…if you want me to do that again for you this year, please email me your information and how many tickets you will be purchasing and we will go from there! With early bird registration, a single ticket is $100, couple is $190, and a table of 10 is $925.  Get 10 people together and get a table and come out and help us raise money for such a worthy cause!! Early bird registration ends August 15th so start getting your friends together now!

You can purchase tickets online at www.childrensfightforlife.com.  Please email me with any questions you have!!  lmorton@thejackmortonfoundation.org

If you can’t come and still want to help, you can donate an item for auction or become a sponsor!  Let me know what you want to do!!

Here are a few pics from last year:

We had a wonderful today today!  Jack, Braden, my sister Stacey, Abbey, and I all went to the Phoenix Children’s Museum this morning for a few hours and the kids LOVED it!  The last time we were there was right before Jack got sick so it was fun to go back now that he is doing well.  Braden was just an infant last time and he just had a blast.  He does not sit still and wants to be involved in everything so I had to join them climbing up this huge contraption that they have in the entry of the building and I am not lying when I said that I was out of breath by the time we were done.  Yes, I need to start working out again!

After that we went to lunch and then back home for some more play time outside.  Braden didn’t nap at all so he was sound asleep at 7:00 tonight.  Jack is snuggled up next to me now watching an old Christmas movie but he will be heading off to bed soon as he has school tomorrow morning.  He just loves going to school.  He is only going 2 days a week now but come January we are going to start going 3 days a week and he is very excited about that!

Tomorrow night is the Casino Night benefiting the Jack Morton Foundation and I am so excited to go!  Unfortunately Zac is still working up north so he won’t be there with me, but I am sure it will still be a good time. I am looking forward to meeting all of those who have put this together and want to help us raise awareness for Neuroblastoma.  We are so very thankful for all of you, who we don’t even know yet, who want to help us raise money for research.  We have to find a cure for this.  We will…we have to!

If you are going tomorrow night…see you there!!!