Relay for Life 2013

This Relay for Life had different meaning for me.  My step-brother David (who I consider my brother) was diagnosed with Angio Sarcoma early on in the year.  It is an aggressive blood cancer that for David would be fatal.  I wanted to walk for him this year and honor his battle for life.  Jon was very supportive and Stephanie Hoffman Eborn could understand my feelings about David's illness, since her husband died at age 36 from Ewing Sarcoma.  We walked with her on her team.  I was hopeful that maybe David could come to relay because he was visiting in Utah from Canada the week before.  But unfortunately he was in bad shape and had to rush back to Canada. The walk was very therapeutic and the feeling of support you feel there is amazing!  Can you tell what our theme was?....Definitely mustaches but overall it was suppose to be Charlie Chaplin and the 20s.
Stephanie and Eric Eborn with Tyler Hoffman.

Andrew had a lot of fun hanging out with us.

I love my silly husband!

This little girl was a daughter of a friend of Stephanie's.  What a cutie!
This was all the teams opening lap.  The excitement is in the air!

The evening ceremonies are amazing!  So spiritual.

Stephanie asked Jon is he could be Mr. Relay for our team.  He wasn't quite sure he wanted to do it.  Of course Steph picked him because Jon is so outgoing and fun.  But Jon is "maturing" in age and thinks it might be the last of his day to do something this wild. So each team picked a guy to dress up like a woman and go around trying to get donations for Relay for Life.

Jon was off and running on his skates and was so fun to watch.  He got a lot of donations.  In fact he probably would have won but someone made an anonymous donation of $300 and gave it to someone else. :(

All in all it was such a fun night.  I'm so glad that Stephanie let us be a part of her team and enjoy a fun filled night.  Also, Jon bought a quilt from the auction and it had hand prints of survivors on it.  Turns out one of the hand prints was of a grandson of a lady in our church so she bought it from us.  Meant a lot to her.  She missed the auction and thought she lost the quilt.