Our efforts to raise funds to help fight blood cancer
Rather than just take our word for what the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society can do, I thought I would share another survivor’s story and her new perspective on life.
You can donate to this amazing organization here…
http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntx/Plano13/TeamCutler
Or for those local to us, feel free to stop by our lemonaid stand this Saturday.
https://teamfricke.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/turning-lemons-into-lemonaid-2013/
As part of our efforts to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, my crafty mother is once again making some lovely crosses. Last year it was all with barbed wire and beads, but she has now added some smaller versions made of just beads. I’m sure there is some other stuff in there, but that is the best description this uncrafty person can provide. Below are some pictures of what she has put together. The larger ones are $25 and the smaller ones are $15. They are in honor of Cutler as well as in memory of Grandma Boo, who recently passed away and had beaten Lymphoma once before. If you are interested in purchasing any or have any questions, please contact Carol (my lovely mother) at cjkjf@outlook.com. If she doesn’t reply, let me know and I will gently remind her to check her email. 🙂
It’s that time of year again for the LemonAID Stand. This is the fourth year in a row where we will be selling lemonade for AID to those battling blood cancers. 100% of the money that we raise as part of this multifamily effort will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as part of our annual Light The Night fund-raising effort. This was started four years ago when one of our friend’s daughter wanted to have a lemonade stand and considering the impact that LLS has had on our lives they were quick to say ok as long as the proceeds were donated to the LLS. It was thrown together very last second and we were able to raise $160. The next year we put a little more planning into it and were able to up that amount to $860. Last year, we were in the local paper and on TV raising $1500. Unfortunately this year we have not had the time to put forth the same effort, but we are building a new stand, so that will probably be worth a donation just to see if it stands for the full four hours.
As is now customary, we will have lemonade, cookies, snacks, some adult beverages, a bounce house, and snow cones. For the adults concerned about catching the local college game, I will even have the tv set up in the garage. Last year was a tremendous success so here’s to hoping for a continued growth of our annual stand. The lemonade and snacks are free for any donation. No donation is too small nor too large.
So mark October 19th on your calendar, the stand will open at 2pm and go until 6pm. We usually extend well beyond 6pm, but that’s the unofficial gathering. Those that have joined us in the past can attest to it being more than just a lemonade stand. It turns into a great time held by all with kids running all over playing sports, wearing themselves out in the bounce house and then heading back for more sugar to keep up the fight. The parents are usually doing something similar with return trips to the adult cooler instead of seeking sugar.
Our address is (Stalking only allowed for large donations):
429 Whisperfield Dr
Murphy, TX 75094
If you can’t make it but still want to help make a difference in the effort to squash blood cancers, you can make a tax deductible donation at our Light The Night team page.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntx/Plano13/TeamCutler
I don’t yet have a memory of when cancer was cured, but I sure as hell remember when Cutler was diagnosed. Please help by donating.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntx/Plano13/TeamCutler
Yes, I plan on beating everyone over the head with this. September was cancer awareness month, I am just starting a few days late.
I saw this video at the Links Fore Leukemia several months ago and never got around to sharing until now…unfortunately. These kinds of advancements are what give us hope that leukemia can be destroyed. With your help radical ideas like this can be developed in an ongoing effort to eradicate blood cancers.
To donate and help further the cause:
Four years ago today started as a normal day with a plan to visit the doctor for Mason’s four-year old check up and quickly turned into a storm drenched punch to the gut that helped open our eyes to the world of blood cancers. On 9/11/2009 Cutler was diagnosed with AML and immediately checked into the hospital. Four years later we are extremely blessed to have a healthy, active, super funny, and extremely cute four-year old boy blessing us every day with laughter and frustration that any parent of a normal four-year old gets to experience on a daily basis.
While in the hospital I went through a range of emotions and often wondered why this was happening to us. Cutler was out of the hospital six months later and we did our first Light The Night walk to help raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. While attending that walk I it dawned upon me that we were now a part of another family. A family of those touched and impacted by blood cancers. It was then that I realized this was happening to us so that we could start doing more important things with our free time. Since then our family has dedicated a good amount of time helping raise awareness of the great things that LLS does, raising awareness of the impact of blood cancers, and perhaps most importantly helping raise funds to help LLS drive towards their goal of helping eradicate blood cancers.
The LLS not only helps fund research (were you aware that over 50% of current cancer medicines were discovered via research for blood cancer cures?) but provides education, counseling, and financial aid to thousands of people impacted by blood cancers on a daily basis.
We were very blessed to have Cutler beat the odds and win his battle. Unfortunately there are still too many people who are not as fortunate and so we, Team Cutler, will continue to raise money and awareness until the overall battle is won.
Please consider joining us in our effort by Lighting The Night with us on 10/26 in Frisco. If you can’t make the walk, as many of you I will pester, are out of town then consider making a donation. Any size donation is greatly appreciated, from $1 to $1,000,000. I realize that sounds like I would turn you away if you tried to donate $1,000,001 but if you have much to donate please contact me so I can get something special set up for you like a free tshirt.
In order to join the team or to make a donation to the team, click on the link below. There is a section on the right to donate or scroll to the bottom to the join the team link if you want to join us for the walk or just to create a personal site that you can use to help raise funds.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/ntx/Plano13/TeamCutler
For those local to the area, keep your eyes open for our information on our annual Lemonade Stand to be held on 10/19 where all proceeds go to the Light The Night effort. Also, please share the heck out of this message to your family and friends. It never hurts to ask.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at aaron@teamfricke.com.
Here is Cutler’s clip from this morning. He needs some fine tuning on looking into the cameras. 🙂
Burlington Coat Factory and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
On Monday Cutler served as the honored hero for the LLS Links for Leukemia golf tournament and he quickly fell in love with the game as well as a new hockey player. I was lucky enough to have Cutler join me and Brian for the last 10 holes of the round and he absolutely loved every minute of it from putting, to hitting the driver, to Brian pulling tees and golf balls from his ears. I can’t even tell you the number of times he told me he wanted to play golf every day now. During the luncheon I told our story and then Dallas Stars center Vern Fiddler presented a signed jersey to Cutler and gave us another for Mason. No matter how hard I tried, I could not peal that jersey off of Cutler despite it being so hot outside. As it turns out, Vern lost his younger sister to Leukemia when she was eight years old and he has taken to working with the LLS as one of his charitable efforts. We talked for a bit and is usually the case with most professional hockey players I have met, he is an incredibly nice and genuine man. I appreciate what he is doing to help spread the word about LLS and the fight against blood cancers.
Below is a quick video that the Stars, also a big supporter of LLS, put together on the day as well as a few photos shot from my phone at the course and at our detour to the PGA store on the way home.
http://video.stars.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=709&id=246065&cmpid=embed-share-video
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.
Murphy Child’s Lemonade Helps Fight Cancer « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth.
Here is a follow up video from Friday night. CBS came out to the house to get footage from the actual stand and once again they did a great job. Even if the nice anchor woman had a bit of trouble with our last name at the begining. 🙂
I am proud to say it was a huge success as we raised about $1500. Another huge jump from last year. I will try to post a picture or two from someone else’s camera soon…in all of the celebrity, I forgot to get my camera.
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