THON 2011!

$9, 563,016.09 RAISED!!

Comments twittered during THON's live webcast:

Statement made by a parent whose child who died from cancer: "Most of all, I want you to dance, I want you to THON, because I don't want you to ever -- ever -- have your child die in your arms." :*(

Statement made by a dancer: "There's a difference between dancing with your feet and dancing with your heart."

17 year old valedictorian, student council president and cancer fighter closing out his speech to THON participants: "I don't want to survive. I want to live." (Quote from Wall-E)

Penn State student dancer: "He was never a sick kid to me, he was just my little brother. Through 8 years of treatment, he was happiest here at THON."
Quote from Charles Millard, founder of Four Diamonds Fund: "When we do things for ourselves, they die with us. When we do things for humanity, they live on forever."
Unknown: "One day we will dance in celebration. Until then, we dance for a cure."

Khloe Kardashian: "How are my THON dolls doing?! Almost over!! "

Dr. Spanier: "Nothing makes me more proud as President of Penn State than THON."
THON dancer: "Our backs are sore, our feet our sore, but our pain is nothing compared to what those kids go through."
Joe Paterno: When they say, ‘We Are Penn State,’ this is what they are talking about.”
Unknown: "Its a great day to be a penn stater!" <3

Other comments:
Alyssa Geiger: $9, 563, 016.09 all for the kids, the families and the cure. What an incredible year. Thank you to everyone who made it possible.
Sarah Dickert: Waddup atlas and your $381,000!!! Oh btw, my school raised $9.56 million for kids with cancer, what did your school do?

LOVE!

I spent the day with my sister-in-law last Friday. She has this fabulous secret recipe for cookies that everyone just loves! I asked her if we could make a batch to send to Alyssa for Valentine's Day. She was kind enough to make the batch the night before (it has to chill overnight in the fridge) and when I got there Friday morning we (mostly she...LOL!) made the cookies, then while we went out to get a bite to eat and make a quick stop to Walmart to get a container and bubble wrap, they cooled. When we returned home we iced them.

As you can see, Alyssa was ecstatic! They received 30 cookies (note that they're fairly sizable) on Monday. Last night when I spoke with her, there were only three left!!! Now, they did give a few to one of the guys in their major who lives in the same complex, but I don't expect they shared too many with him :)

The cutest thing, however, was how excited she was that we had packed the box with PINK bubblewrap :):)

Now, THAT'S The Life :)

Green Thumb

.....or not so much :)

Ice Storm 2011

Brrrr.....

Yay!

(Rumor has it that there's gonna be another one of these coming for his sibling, too!!)