On Sunday, December 11th, we hosted our 5th Annual Special Needs Holiday Party. Along with the Palliative Care Team of Dell Children’s Medical Center we celebrate with many families. Santa had books for all of the kids, and we had nearly 20 gift baskets donated by local organizations that we were able to hand out …
Angel Ornament Celebration – 2016
A few years ago some of our very close friends lost their little girl. She was VERY much like Casey and we have become very close with this family through our daughters. In 2014 we really wanted to find a way to help honor Giuli’s memory over the holidays and to let her family know …
Save The Date(s)
We have a lot of FUN events planned for this holiday season! We will be posting full details very soon, but be sure to mark your calendars now! We will be teaming up with sMiles 4 Sammy and Dell Children’s Palliative Care Team again for our 3rd Annual Angel Ornament Celebration on Thursday, December 8th …
Book Drive – 2016
Fall is in the air and that means one thing- our book drive is in FULL effect! We gladly collect books all year, but during the fall we really step it up a notch. We are starting to plan our annual Special Needs Holiday party. The party will take place in the main Live Strong …
Friendship Day Winners!
We had so much fun celebrating Friendship Day! We received lots of entries for our photo contest and could not pick just one winner. We decided to add 5 runner up prizes as well. I just dropped the runner up prizes in the mail, and as soon as our shirt order is ready I will …
Friendship Day
As everyone that knows Casey knows, she was a HUGE ‘My Little Pony Friendship is Magic’ fan (MLP). She may have even been the number 1 fan. MLP has a special event happening tomorrow, July 30th. It is Friendship day! There are a few things that MLP suggest people do to help celebrate. We LOVE …
Finding Dory Movie Event
Today we hosted our first official Casey’s Circle event. One of Casey’s favorite things to do was to go to the movies. This was always very challenging though. The equipment we had to tote along, the noise we made and finding a theater that had accessible seating where we could actually sit with Casey. There …
Birthday in Heaven
Birthdays have always been a huge celebration for Casey. Each year as we would celebrate one more year, it was a huge victory for all of us. We knew from the very beginning that we would eventually run out of earthly birthdays, and that every day (not just birthdays) was a gift. I think knowing …
2015 Special Needs Holiday Party Wrapup
On Saturday, December 12th, we co-hosted our 4th Special Needs Holiday Party. We co-hosted with CPATH Texas for the second time and with the Palliative Care Team of Dell Children’s Medical Center. This was our first year hosting the event at Dell Children’s Medical Center. We took last year off, and came back bigger and …
Decorating the Tree
It was a beautiful day today! We really could not have picked a better day to decorate the angel ornament tree. We had some great helpers volunteer their afternoons to help us get everything done. The area around the hospital is called Mueller. Mueller graciously allowed us to decorate a tree in the park directly …