5th Annual Blood Drive and Bake Sale

The 5th Annual Blood Drive and Bake Sale in honor of Colby was great!!  I've said it every year, and I will say it again...we are truly blessed with some amazing family and friends!

There were 79 people who registered to donate blood!  Unfortunately, 18 people were deferred this year during the screening process.  This is the highest deferral number we have seen.  The Red Cross did successfully collect 61 units of blood though!  Thank you to everyone who came out to donate blood.  We really appreciate you taking time out of your Saturday to give in honor of Colby.  You saved lives by donating!!

Once again, we were overwhelmed by the number of baked goods!!  Thank you to everyone who made or purchased delicious treats for us to sale.  With all of your help, we were able to raise $2,744 for Congenital Heart Defects Research at the bake sale!!  A few people have mentioned wanting to still donate money, so we will hold this for a couple of weeks.  Please let me know if you would like to mail us a check, and I will get you our address.  Please make checks to "Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt" and write CHD Research on the memo line.  Every dollar helps!

We were blessed to have 3 other heart heroes join us at the Blood Drive and Bake Sale this year!  They are all featured on the "Little Heart Heroes" poster that we made to honor so many others living each day with CHDs.  Thank you Gabe, Cain, and Kael for coming!!  All 3 of you are warriors and true heroes!

Thanks to everyone who came to the event on Saturday!!  We truly appreciate your love and support!!  We want to say a special thank you to several people who really helped make the day successful.  Thank you Catherine Wiggleton for coming early and helping me get the bake sale ready and balloons out.  Thank you Misty Benz for also helping get the bake sale tables set up and ready.  Thank you Teresa Burrow (Poogie), Ethel Hackett (Nenny), and Brody for helping me at the registration table.  All of you helped make the blood drive run very smoothly!  Thank you Sarah Farley, Kelly Brandon, Maggie Callahan, Kate Witherington, Melissa Holdren, and Cecili Smith for running the Bake Sale throughout the day.  Thanks to Jeremy Hitchcock for bringing us some lunch.  Thank you Jason Rowell for helping us get the gym cleaned up at the end of the day. Thank you Joan Dell (Nana) for taking some baked goods to work with you and helping us raise a little more money.  I hope I have not left anyone out!  We appreciate each and every one of you!

The kids had a blast playing all day long!  Thank you Tim and Wendy Hinton and Steve and Carol McClure for letting us borrow your bounce houses again this year.  This is always a highlight for the kids that come!!  Colby and Brody think it was just a big party!!