A Day to Celebrate Elena!

Someone needs to tell this little boy and this little girl that he's not a princess and, no matter how cute she thinks he is, they absolutely cannot get married someday.

I'm pretty sure you've all already heard about this. But the anniversary of Elena's diagnosis is coming up and Eric and Briana are throwing a party/service project to help other kids with cancer. Here are the details:

When: Saturday, March 19th from 8am-1pm

Where: 114 South 400 West, Orem (Cultural Hall of the LDS Meetinghouse)

What: To celebrate one year of Elena kicking cancer's trash! We will be doing a service project and a blood drive. For the service project, we will be assembling kits for families of newly diagnosed cancer patients at Primary Children's Hospital. We received one of these in the first few days after Elena was diagnosed and we want to pay it forward and give some support to people going through what we did because we know what a terrible time it is.

There will also be good food, good company, and hopefully it will just be a very fun, meaningful night all around.

So, come! We want you to celebrate with us and we need your blood. Haha. :) Seriously, we need 25-30 committed donors. Even if you can't stay long or can only drop in, please stop by and give blood! You - yes YOU! Even friends and family of friends and family are invited. Please come give.

2nd: In order to make our service project a success we need your help in rounding up donations for the kits. This can be done by purchasing and donating the items needed directly, or sending money ahead of time for us to purchase the needed items. If you need our address, let me know in a comment or an e-mail and I'll send it to you. Here are ideas for what we are looking to put into the kits:

• Travel Blanket - like a fleece blanket that can be rolled up and secured with a strap or something. For parents mostly - the hospital has like a million blanket donations, so the kids are pretty well taken care of each visit. :)
• Stuffed animals: need to be small-ish and MUST be new. The hospital can not accept used stuffed animals for health reasons
• Small toys/Activities: same rules as above - NO used toys.
• Hand sanitizer
• Lotion (travel size)
• Chapstick
• Books about cancer for children: ("I'm a Superhero", "My ABC Book of Cancer", "Chemo-Girl(/Boy): Saving the World One Treatment at a Time", etc.) You can purchase individual books off of the internet or send money for us to purchase them.
• Doctor kits for kids to play with
• Gas Cards (Chevron, Texaco, Sinclair, Maverick, 7-11 are all local stations)

We have got the snacks for the kits covered, but they will also be included. Other than no used items, the only other guideline that the hospital gave us was NO latex.

Pretty much Eric and Briana are the bomb.com. You can go to their blog to let them know what you'll be donating or you can leave a comment here and I'll let them know. You rock...