Leap 2.0

Today, we are LEAPing for joy once again - it's the 29th, dontcha know! Georgia is now 14 months away from being officially cancer-FREE! Last Leap Day, she was two months away from the end of treatment, and it's just incredible how far she's come since then. How grateful we are!

 SQUEEZE!

And there's still time to donate tonight to Georgia and Ivy's MaxLove page - you can help them help other kids THRIVE against cancer, just like our girl. Thank you!

Sweet Love

On Valentine's Day, we celebrated with the usual cards and chocolates, but we also kicked it up several notches with the most marvelous vintage tea party ever! For Georgia's Sweet Sixteen, she decided to have her gaggle over for tea, 1920s-style, and it was the bee's knees! They all dressed up in their finest flapperwear, and the downstairs help donned proper aprons to serve our lovely guests. Besides enjoying delicious tea sandwiches and sweet treats, the girls also created signature scents from a selection of essential oils and took a host of pictures with fun party props. We all had a wonderful time, and as she was sitting at the table with her cup of tea and darling friends, Georgia declared, "We should do this more often." I agree!

 

 

 

In more LOVEly news, Georgia and Ivy are fundraising as ambassadors for MaxLove Project! Just like last year, they want to deliver love and light to kids fighting cancer at Dell Children's and our clinic, and we'd appreciate your support! Both girls have benefited from MaxLove's thrivership programs, and sharing that love is our honor and privilege. Click HERE to donate!

And a quick reminder - the Dell Children's St. Baldrick's event is one month away - Saturday, March 19th! We'll be there volunteering, fresh off of our trip to Boston, and we'd love to see some more Peachy Keens helping out there - or how about shaving their heads?! Let us know if you're ready to be BRAVE and go BALD! Thanks, y'all!

World Cancer Day

Today is World Cancer Day. Did you know that worldwide, a child is diagnosed with cancer every three minutes? We need to change that, and we need your help to do it. The St. Baldrick's Foundation offers several ways to make a difference, and we'd be thrilled if you chose any of those! But specifically, if you're in the Austin area, and you'd like to volunteer, donate, or better yet - SHAVE for the Brave, you can join us at the Dell Children's event on Saturday, March 19th! Yes, the Peachy Keens are starting our 2016 recruiting campaign, and we want YOU to help us conquer childhood cancer! Contact us with questions, and we hope to see you at this wonderful event - the place where it all began for us, where we joined the mean green cancer-fighting machine that is St. Baldrick's!

September 2010

And yes she did!

Going to 11

Even though it seems like she just started 6th grade, Georgia has been at the Ann Richards School for over four years, and this week, she's planning her schedule for her JUNIOR year! And equally hard for me to wrap my head around is that she'll be taking AP Calculus! Is there anything this girl can't do?!

She once again served as a tour guide at the Open House last week, and the mighty Ann Richards Swim Team - including your favorite relay anchor - qualified for the regional swim meet after a great showing at the district meet. They may not be the fastest ones in the pool, but all of the girls try their very best, and they're having a great time together, so it really is a win-win for all! 

We're working on our fundraising plan for this  year and will update soon with some of those details. For now, we thank you again and again for all of your support over the last six years. Georgia just marked 45 months off treatment, and you're a HUGE part of her continued success!

The Moon and Stars

Well, we've got the first two weeks back at school under our belts, and we're off to a great spring semester! Georgia has two more months of swim season, and Ivy has started rehearsals with her girls' advocacy performance group. Driving practice is going well, too! We're also planning our trip to Boston and already talking about some summer plans. In particular, Georgia is considering applying for a young writer's conference at Sewanee! It's a very competitive program, so it's a real long-shot, but she's up for the challenge. Besides, she's handled much bigger fish ... and she happens to be one.

We also know that Georgia is a STAR, in more ways than one, and the Moon and Stars happen to be on our mind right now. In case you missed the President's final State of the Union address last week, he announced a “moonshot” to cure cancer: a new national effort to conquer cancer once and for all. This is beautiful music to our ears, of course, but just as it took thousands of people and hours and millions of dollars to get us to the moon, it will take that and then some to bring an end to cancer. One quick and simple way to help is to contact your representatives on Capitol Hill and urge them to cosponsor the STAR Act. You've stepped up for us before, and we're asking you to please do it again - we've got the momentum, so let's use it! To the MOON, y'all!