St. Jude Give Thanks Walk 2014

Get ready for five days of recruitment and fundraising challenges!!! If you are planning on joining our Helping Hands 4 Morgan Team for the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk this year then Monday is the day to do it! You can earn some great rewar...ds for your fundraising efforts this coming week!

MONDAY: RECRUIT THE MOST NEW TEAM MEMBERS.
Tuesday: Send at least 25 more emails as a team.
Wednesday: Get the most online donations.
Thursday: Have no team members with a $0 fundraising balance.
Friday: Raise the most money online during team week.

 

                                   HELPING HANDS 4 MORGAN WALK TEAM PAGE

 

 

 

3 Years!

Three years and still going strong!

The survival time for most DIPG patients is only 6-9 months after diagnosis.  There is no rhyme or reason why Morgan has survived 3 years while others do not.  It is hard to describe the guilt you feel hearing about so many other children dying of the same tumor and from other types of cancer when your child is somehow defying the odds.  It goes without saying how grateful and overjoyed we are to have Morgan here with us and we feel that is in large part due to the phenomenal care that she receives at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!  So in memory of all the children that have been taken from this world way too early and in honor of Morgan and all the other children battling cancer everyday, we have once again signed up our Helping Hands 4 Morgan Team in the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk on Saturday, November 22, 2014!  We would love some new team members this year and, if you are able, would greatly appreciate any type of donation, big or small. 

THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support, there is no way for us to put into words exactly how much it truly means to us!!!

1st Day of Kindergarten!

1st day of Kindergarten!  So very thankful and beyond proud!!!

Kindergarten and 3rd grade here we come!! :)

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

On September 16, 2011 we were given the most devastating news that our little girl had an inoperable brainstem tumor, DIPG, and that she would have at the very most 2 years left with us. Thanks to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital she is going on 3 years!! It is hard to put into words why we love St. Jude so much and how grateful we are to have them take the most phenomenal care of Morgan!

To help give back to this extraordinary Hospital, our Helping Hands 4 Morgan team has once again signed up for the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk! We have been the #1 fundraising team on Long Island the last 2 years and hope to keep our title again for 2014 (we have some competition this year!). If you can, please help us raise awareness for Childhood Cancer and either join our team or help us fundraise for St. Jude so they can continue their mission of helping Morgan and all children fight cancer!!  Thanks for your continued support!

 

 

 

 



STABLE!!!

Morgan and Adam are headed home from St. Jude with the wonderful news that Morgan's tumor remains stable!!!  Kindergarten here she comes!!!!! :)

STABLE!

Keeping this post short and sweet.  Morgan and Adam were down at St. Jude and her MRI showed that her tumor remains STABLE!!!



Wyatt Emerson West
April 2, 2014

I haven't been keeping up with my blog as much as the Helping Hands 4 Morgan facebook site so for those of you that don't follow facebook, here is a picture of the newest member of our family!  :)

Gold Coast Cares for St. Jude

On Saturday, March 15, 2014, over 300 guests gathered at Oheka Castle for the 2nd Annual Gold Coast Cares for St. Jude event. Together, the Long Island community raised over $300,000 for the kids of St. Jude.

We were so happy to have my brother Bill and his wife Marissa and Adam's sister Erin come with us this year. We had a wonderful time and were honored to be apart of such a special evening! Thank you Gold Coast and everyone at ALSAC for everything you do for the families of St. Jude!