This just in....

A two-night stay at the Hyatt Regency in San Diego WITH SEAWORLD TICKETS has just been donated to the silent auction! This is a beautiful hotel with many fun amenities, including being within 10 minutes of Sea World. This auction is going to be out of control! Make sure to RSVP and let me know how many are bowling at Bowl for Charlotte on February 6th!

Chemo is on!

An update on Char... Yesterday the Chemo Pills finally arrived and Char took her first set last night. She was feeling fine when I talked to her. Hopefully, they are no biggie and she doesn't get any side effects.

She is still going to radiation 5 days a week. She moved her appointment up from 11:00 AM to 10:00 AM so it doesn't break up her day so much.

Charlotte is so excited for February 6th! We are keeping her updated on all the planning and she loves all the ideas.

Love to all,
Rachelle

The planning has really begun.

Hi All,

The planning committee for Bowl for Charlotte met yesterday at the West Seattle Bowling Alley and wow is this event going to be fun!

Just wanted to clarify a few items up front. The cost posted of $25 is for the people who are bowling. We hope most people will pay to bowl, since the bowling alley is charging us per lane not per bowler and we have rented all the lanes. But we feel it is much more important to pack the place with people supporting Charlotte than charging everyone that walks through the door, so please come and support Char in whatever way you feel comfortable. As of now, Charlotte is planning to be at the event and I know a packed bowling alley of people that love her is probably the best medicine we can give her right now.

We are going to need a better head count of the people that are bowling about a week before the event, so keep those emails and facebook RSVPs coming. Specifically plese let us know how many total are coming and how many you expect to be bowling.

There will likely be two tables of items up for auction. The first table will close 1-hour into the event (roughly 5:00) and the second table will close after 2 hours (6:00).

If you have offered to donate something for the auction, first of all we cannot thank you enough for your generosity, and second I would like to gather all the auction items a couple days before the event. So please send me an email so we can figure out logistics on how to get it from you. I am more than willing to drive anywhere to pick something up. One final note on donation items, if you are donating something and don't mind writing up a description of your item and emailing it to me for display on the table, that would be so appreciated. Items that are pretty self-explanatory or can be set out on the table, probably don't need a description.

Stay tuned for much more to come. I will post another update on auction items soon. We have a lot more cool stuff!

Love,
Rachelle

Some little darlings!!!!!!

Hold the presses, I got an idea!!!!!

during radiation, i'm on platform bed thing and this huge machinewhich takes up one end of the room is spinning and moving around me making cool tumor killing noises. I have lay still beause they put a mask they made of my face and it snaps downto the table to hold my head still. ...going to my happy place..... going to my happy place. just to move a fraction of an inch in this feels like waves of closterphobia but it's pinpoint accurate....

here's my idea---I 'm going to start looking for donors but since it't my idea I get to pick rom the donor list before the surgery....there could be a few candidates (government officials, heads of state) who deserve one more than me but too late, I thought of it!!!! I'm using it.

HAHA! XOXOXO!!!!

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2010 and all its wealth of healing properties. !!!!!!