2007 Alzheimers Memory Walk

This weekend we went to Kansas City to participate in the 2007 Memory Walk to fight Alzheimer's. As most of you know, my Poppo (dads dad) suffer with this disease, and Joshua's Papa Miles died with it years ago, so this is a cause close to our hearts. The walk was Saturday morning, and all my siblings were able to be there with us, along with Dad and Mama C, Aunt Brenda and even Geri was able to stop by and say hello before we began the race!! It was wonderful. We got checked in and then wandered over to the where they had all of the memory flags set up...it was an amazing, and very emotional sight. We found some of the ones for Poppo, and the ones we had made for Papa Miles, and took pictures of those. Then we began on the walk!! It was a one or three mile option, so Josh, Jer and the kiddos did the one mile loop while Dad, Connie, Aunt Brenda, Betsy, Jason, Ben, Landon and I did the three mile loop. Josh and Jer took the kiddos to the kids tents to play games while the rest of us were finishing our walk and they had a grand 'ol time! They got their hair painted, and faces painted, played games for cool prizes and all kinds of stuff!! When we were all finsihed walking, we grabbed some water and food, the headed back to the house for some burgers! Later that night, we played some poker, and let me just say that Jer took Landon DOWN!!! HARD!! It was great....I could have quit playing right then!! ;D But, I didn't and eventually, I WON!!! I am the reigning Whitsitt/Miles POKER CHAMPION!!! It was a great weekend, good to see everyone, but the best thing was that we all were able to be there to take part in such a significant event, one that hopefully will become a family tradition...thanks to all of you who contributed to us! ;D