Hi everyone...well, its just a few more sleeps until the 'run for the kids' - a great fun run/walk to support the Royal Childrens Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Myself, Pete and petes brother (and eli's uncle) phil are doing the run, along with a few of phil's 'fit' mates from bacchus marsh. We are entering as team 'melonhead' (of course)...and are hoping to run 5.7km without hurting too much...will see how we pull up! We think if eli can do what he did, running will be nothing...he is and will always continue to be our inspiration.
We have made further progress on melon's cottage. We are just waiting for a tree branch to be removed from the front (c'mon rory!) so we can plant it out, and pete is hopefully getting some timber tomorrow to start putting the paths for melon's garden in out the back. At least we have a 'plan' now which we are a bit excited about...just need some time to do it!
the other thing we are making slow steps towards is setting up a foundation. If ANY of you have ANY skills that might be able to help us, we would soooo happy. We think we are pretty clever with lots of things, but this has got me pretty bamboozeld to be honest! If you can get in touch through eli's hotmail address eli-simpson@hotmail.com
We have spoken to a number of people about what we 'should' do, its just a matter of having someone watch over our paperwork while we put it all through...if you think you can help, we would love to hear from you!
We are also gearing up for the 'angel ball' which we are holding to raise a bit of money for angel flight...a non-govt organisation who helped us heaps early on. They flew us to melbourne around 6 times and allowed us to get to melb and home in one day!
our ball will be held at the Bairnsdale RSL on Saturday 2nd May to start at 8pm. There will be a lucky door prize and a prize for best 'angel wings'...
we have some great local bands donating their time to play and provide us with some entertainment. You can get tickets from the Bairnsdale RSL from 8 APRIL onwards...there will also be a small presentation by Tom Courtney (our first angel flight pilot) and the night will be mc'ed by Duncan Malcolm.
Tickets are $15.00 and you can either go for a group (tables of 10) or be daring and meet new people on the night..
it should be heaps of fun and there will be nearly $2,000 in gifts and vouchers kindly donated by local bairnsdale businesses up for grabs throughout the night...
so get your 'best' wings on and come along!
anyways...best fly
look after yourselves, and we will chat again soon
hugs
the simpsons
xox
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