Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Happy Birthday Michael!

On Michael's birthday we delivered all of the bibles and stuffed animals to Mercy Hospital.  We are so thankful for everyone's help and were able to donate 400 baby bibles and 239 stuffed animals!  There is some peace in knowing that good will come from Michael's passing. 
We were greated at the hospital by Maggie, the Mercy heartprints coordinator.  Maggie will be the one who gets these items to the families.  She is the one who spoke with us right after Michael died and has checked up on us since.  We are so thankful for her help throughout this process.
We also meet with some of the Doctors and Nurses who took care of Michael.  It is so hard to believe with so many patients they would remember our family and Michael.  We were especially excited to see Michael's nurse Shannon.  She was his nurse the day he passed away.  I wrote about her right after he died in an entry called "The gift."  She means the world to our family and we are so thankful she was there for us that day.

And this is what we looked like heading into Mercy.  3 girls, a wagon and a ton of donations!


 This is a picture of the girls and all 400 bibles!

This is a close-up of the bibles.  They are fairly small, just about the size of our Michael Monkey.




A big thanks to Uncle Daniel, Aunt Julie and Cousin Ethan for the stuffed animals! (I somehow forgot this on my last post)



A big thanks also to Sam! (We received these after I posted the grand total.  That is why the number changed to 239.  Oh and Ainsley was having an "off " day this day)


AND....we finished the day with a cake that the girls picked out.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

GRAND TOTAL.....................................................235!!!!!!


We blew the top right off of our goal.....235!!!!




We cannot thank everyone enough!  We have collected 235 stuffed animals and have received almost $1500.00 in donations towards bibles (that is 400 bibles!!!).  We plan on taking these items to Mercy on August 13th, Michael's 1st Birthday.  We cannot possibly express how thankful we are to everyone for helping us accomplish this goal.  All of these stuffed animals will go to the siblings of that babies that pass away way too soon.  We hope these animals will be a reminder of their precious baby brother or sister. 

A big thanks to Abigail!  Abigail is a special friend of the girls.  Abigail's baby brother, Coleman, is in heaven with Michael.  We know their baby brother's are looking down on them and wondering how their sisters could possibly be so silly!


 A big thanks to the Hudson's!

 And another picture with all of the animals, just because the girls think it is fun!


 Thanks to the Popp Family!
 A big thanks to Dave, Marti, Jonah and Miri for this "small" donation of 100 stuffed animals!  The look on the girls' faces was priceless when I opened the box and they saw all of these stuffed animals!

 .....AND one more of all of them!