Walking With Team Vada 2012

This years walk was a cold one! And while the attending group was smaller than the years past we as a whole raised $3,000.00! TEAM VADA, we rocked it!

31 for 21: TEAM VADA Needs You

This Saturday is our local Down syndrome awareness walk. It'll be our third year in a row for participating and I am looking forward to going. Actually, I am giddy with excitement. Next to the Gala this walk is one of the events I look forward to all year! 

This year I made "TEAM VADA's" fundraising goal $3000.00, I think I may have over estimated things a bit but we are SO stinking close to reaching this goal!!! Currently TEAM VADA has met 89% of our goal, leaving a remainder of $328.00 to raise! Not bad, not bad at all but I still have high hopes of Raising the amount that I set out to raise and that's where you might come in. Can you help TEAM VADA? Have you donated to TEAM VADA already? We. Need. You!

Time is running out, come this Saturday they will be adding everything up to determine who raised the most in first and second place amounts. If TEAM VADA comes in for first place then Vada will have her picture on a large window of GiGi's this time! In a few months the photo from last year is coming down and I don't want to stop seeing her sweet face every time I drive by GiGi's Playhouse. I love that she gets to be one of the beauties up there changing the way people look at individuals with Down syndrome, so please, if you haven't made your donation yet, please do so now. It will make all of the difference no matter what the amount is for!

Here is a direct link to VADA's Donation Page:

http://www.active.com/donate/gigisqc/TeamVADA

Please Help

For the last two years I have saved up all of the change I have found lying around the house and what I find our jeans pockets when I am doing laundry. Last year I just added it to the large amount of donations and didnt pay much attention to it. last year I was on a mission to get V's photo on the window of GiGi's Playhouse! So the amount of change didnt matter to me. 

This year I decided to count it. I wanted to again donate it to GiGi's put I wanted to do it online and I didn't want to wait until the bank opened today to do so.

The exact amount was donated to GiGi's, however, the exact amount doesn't really matter here but let me just say that there was over two hundred dollars! This got me thinking about my goal this year. I wanted to earn three thousand dollars in total. I now that may sound unreasonable but last year I (with the help of my husband and his parents) raised almost five thousand dollars and that didn't include the walk registrations! I'm going to be honest, its not looking so good this year. Donations seem scarce this year and I get that, I do, it's just that I think we can al do something even if it is only using the change from our change jars. So Whats in your change jar and are you willing to put it towards a good cause?

Here is the direct link to "Team Vada's" donation page. Wont you please help? The link is quick and secure, plus you can do it anonymously and again, its for a great cause, promoting Down syndrome awareness and to fund GiGi's Playhouse of the QC"s. ;) 

Thanks friends!

Come Walk With Us

2010

It's that time of year again!!!.. It's time to walk for a wonderful cause! This October 6th come walk with "Team Vada", we'd love to have you there! Would you love to walk but live too far away? You can still register for the walk and get your 2012 Walking with GiGi's T-shirts, ill send them to you myself (If you let me know that you registered). Maybe you don't want to register but would like to donate? You can do that too. Here is the direct link to Vada's donation page http://www.active.com/donate/gigisqc/TeamVADA. You can register and or donate directly here. Make sure that you add "Team Vada" where ever it asks who you are donating for or walking with. 

Are you unfamiliar with GiGi's Playhouses,  just click on their name to read about who they are. Click here to read about how GiGi's started and where your money will go . 

And look... 

Vada may actually be walking with us this year!!!