Until now I am sure everyone believe Batman was Bruce Wayne, but thanks to Cutler and his lack of wanting to keep his secret identity (see didn’t want to keep his mask on) we now know that Cutler is the one out fighting crime. It helps explain how he was able to beat cancer’s ass.
It was another succesful Halloween night in Murphy as Batman and Hawkeye helped patrol the neighborhood. Below are a couple of pictures of the boys and some of their friends.
Yesterday when I picked up Mason from school he told me not to look at his drawings because “I might find them inappropriate”. As we were in a hurry I didn’t think much about it, but a couple of hours later I pulled them out of his backpack and checked them out already forgetting what he had said. Below is his drawing of Mario and Luigi trying to rescue Princess and Peach from an evil pumpkin.
While looking at it a bit closer I realized what he thought might be appropriate. He decided to make Princess anatomically correct…on the outside.
I guess my little boy is growing up.
While tucking Cutler into bed tonight I gave him a kiss and noticed that he wiped his face almost immediately afterwards. So I asked him if he wiped my kiss off (a little game we play) and his response was “No, just some buggers.”
Cutler and I were just on a local talk show in our continued effort to be discovered by a talent agent spread the word for LLS. Here is the video from our segment. Cutler did tremendously well.
As I just mentioned in my previous post, my very crafty and talented mother has been working tirelessly with her great friend “grandma” Pam in building Cutler’s Cross For A Cure. She is donating all profits to the LLS as part of our ongoing fundraising efforts. I believe before she came down there were still around 10 left, but they were being shown at a craft fair in O’Fallon by a friend of ours and hopefully will be sold out. However, if you are interested in ordering one, please contact Carol at cjkjf@sbcglobal.net or via phone at 618 531 5876. I’m sure, if sold out already, she would be happy to take orders and start slaving away again once she returns home. 🙂 They are like snowflakes, no two are the same, so get your order in for an original one of a kind.
On the eve of Light The Night, with my house full of my sister’s and their kids and my mom, aunt, and “grandma” Pam snoring away in a close by hotel, I am sitting here in amazement at how much money we have been able to raise thanks to all of our incredibly generous family and friends. Thanks to everyone, we currently sit at over $8500 with still more donations on the way. Thanks to some company matches that are still outstanding, we should easily surpass our goal of $10,000 and this could not be possibly without the help of my family back home. My mother organized a dinner at McCallisters’ where 10% of the proceeds were donated and they managed to raise $450. Not to one up that, but Becky worked with her church and my mom and Angie to put together a bake sale this past Sunday, manned by my incredible nieces and nephews, and then held a lemonade stand that raised almost $850. My crafty mother also has worked tirelessly with “grandma” Pam to make some Cutler’s Cross For A Cure where all profits are being donated. I will have another post shortly with pictures and ordering instructions if you are interested. So far these have raised over $100.
I am giddy with anticipation of what we can do next year with some more organization and planning in place. It’s efforts like this that will someday help put a stop to blood cancers so that others will not have to go through the same experience as our precious Cutler.
We will be representing in full force and bright orange tomorrow night with our Team Cutler shirts of over 20 strong. I will remember my camera and will take plenty of pictures to share.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us in donations and thoughts and prayers.
It’s not too late to spread the word as donations are accepted through the end of the year, here is our team fundraising page.
Lemonade is sweet and the funds that we raised with it is even sweeter! Thanks to our many friends and family, the wonderful people in the area, and the publicity of CBS news we managed to raise $1500 despite some rather chilly weather. Some very cold people gladly braved the inclement weather to come visit and sip on some ice cold lemonade and eventually some very warm hot chocolate. Melanie, as usual, was a saint and worked the kitchen almost nonstop to insure we had plenty of hot chocolate and snacks. As usual the evening ended with a few of us hunkered down in the garage with a few cold beers and a football game on the tv.
Every year we have continued to grow and this year continued to push that effort. My dream is that someday it becomes too big for our house and hopefully next year the weather will be more cooperative and push us further in that direction. For now I am shocked and very pleased in our efforts.
Below are a couple of pictures that Letty was nice enough to share as for some reason I had completely forgotten to get my camera and take some pictures.
You know the hillbillies are in town when your neighbor asks you if there has been some drinking going on…when in fact there wasn’t any, instead it was just my crazy Aunt Pat and her mad driving skillz.
You know the hillbillies are in town when Charming Charlies calls and asks that you please come remove your mother and her entourage from their store because they are tearing down the jewelry displays.
You know the hillbillies are in town when Blue Fish calls and asks that you please remove the same entourage because they are spoon feeding the other patrons in the restaurant and then eating from the same spoon.
I love my family. Fortunately they have reinforcements on the way as my sisters are expected to arrive this afternoon.
For any former Carmen San Diego fans, please read the title to the tune of that song.
Our dear friend, family member, and Cutler’s former nanny has moved on to bigger and better things and is now living in London. You may remember her miserable attempt at providing posts to our blog, but it’s possible you may have missed one of the three or four that she did. Apparently the change of multiple time zones and countries has done her well and she is now actively entertaining me on a regular basis with a blog of her own. Check her out at www.lollygagginginlondon.com. She’s got a special talent and is well worth the read.
Team Fricke 