However, I still feel great inside knowing that we are taking a part as a large team and spreading some good news for a change. We are less than $4,000 away from $1,000,000 earned! That is a HUGE milestone! Something that we have been working hard on for the last 4 years!

It is truly amazing how a group of strangers can come together as a family and complete such a task. That is what Friends of Heroes is all about. We are a family…though many of us have never met. We are still linked together with a passion for a cure….the cure for cancer. We have grieved together, smiled together, and I know that there have been a few laughs in there as well.

You HAVE made a difference.

The first year that we started I looked at my fundraising and thought “I only made $50”….the dreaded word “only”. It should have been a positive “I made $50 and a HUGE difference”. Looking at it today, that $50 made us closer to a cure and to where our team is now.

As a team, I KNOW that we can make it well over $1,000,000! We just need that final push. We are all here to support each other. My five-year-old daughter gave me a quote to live by several months ago and I just keep repeating it when I feel discouraged “You know, just try your best because that is what we are made to do”. I know that we can do that. I know we can do our best. I can say this with all of my heart.

I hope in the near future, we won’t be here fighting for the cure for cancer, because we already helped find the cure! We will be here CELEBRATING the cure! But until that day, let’s stick together, fight for a cure and have fun in the process!

Written by Beck M.
Pictured above with Kelly, her Light The Night executive director, after receiving the Volunteer of the Year Award.