Welcome to Georgia's Journey

Georgia Lily Lucas was born at home on October 6th, 2008 4:15am, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was diagnosed with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) on April 1, 2009.

On April 3rd Georgia was taken home, to be near her sisters and the rest of her family and friends. Nearly three weeks later, on April 21, 2009, she died peacefully -- in the loving arms of her mother and in the same room in which she was born.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Block Party




Meet Mark.



Mark had the brilliant idea to organize a block party this year. He actually had the idea last year but we are all too late to jump on it. This year he and some of the other neighbors got organized early enough and we all had a blast on Saturday evening. There was music, a bouncer, face paint, sidewalk chalk and lots of food and drink. Our street isn't a very big one - only ten houses on each side. Even so I still couldn't have told you the name of half of the families on the street before Saturday. I think this has something to do with all of the time we spend indoors during our long winters!

At the block party they had a 50/50 draw and gave half of their earnings to Mike and me for SMA. Thank you to all of our generous neighbors. We will be putting it towards our goal of $5000 for Unite for the Cure. The 50/50 draw along with some generous family members are allowing me to donate $1200 in the next couple of days! Thank you so much. I also want to say thank you to Renelle for hosting a dinner party and asking her guests to donate to our cause as if they were going to a restaurant. Great idea Renelle, you're always so creative and generous.

Here are a couple pics from the block party. Enjoy!







Love to you all,

Kristen
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5 comments:

  1. LisaAugust 31, 2009 at 10:14 PM

    That is fantastic! True human spirit at its best!

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  2. TammySeptember 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    Those are some really creative ideas - how wonderful!

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  3. DevonSeptember 7, 2009 at 7:37 AM

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  4. DevonSeptember 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    Let's try that again. I wanted to say that I think the block party was a great idea! Looks like everyone had a lot of fun.

    I also wanted to say hi--my name is Devon and my son Dakin has a disease in the SMA family. Georgia is absolutely beautiful.

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  5. LorraineSeptember 8, 2009 at 10:53 PM

    Awesome about the Block Party, Kristen!!!

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