JEANS MONTH - HUGE SUCCESS!!!!!

We would like to share that our Jeans Month was a HUGE success!!! Trystan and Alyssa were able to raise $11,300 for St. Louis Children's Hospital 9th Floor Hematology/Oncology Unit.

Businesses had "clever" ways to participate in Jeans Month. We would like to share those with you:

-The Bond County Sheriff's Department allowed their deputies to pay to grow facial hair and their dispatchers to wear jeans.
-St. Mary's School, in Edwardsville, extended not only to their staff but to their students, who wear uniforms every day, to pay to wear their jeans on Fridays during the month of February!
-West Springs Church in Missouri dedicated a Jeans Sunday and all the members of the church paid $1 to wear their jeans to church that Sunday.
-Watson's Drug Store made buttons that said, "Ask Me Why I'm Wearing Jeans"
-McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice made stickers to explain why they were wearing jeans.
-Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n hosted a fundraiser at their restaurant for an entire Saturday.

Those businesses that allowed their employees to pay to wear their jeans, varied in the way they participated. Some allowed their employees to wear jeans for the entire month! While others did once a week, every Friday, twice a week for the month, etc. Any way you look at it, the businesses of our community and surrounding communities came together to help "give back"!

We also had businesses and factories that are already allowed to wear jeans to work take up a collection just to help "give back."

We had more than three dozen businesses either participate or collecto donations:

The Hardas Team-Highland, IL
Bridget Tinsley Photography-Highland, IL
Southwestern Electric-Greenville, IL
DeCurtis Corporation-Orlando, FL
FCC Preschool-Greenville, IL
First National Bank-Greenville, IL
Washington University Department of Surgery-St. Louis, MO
Enertech-Greenville, IL
Greenville Elementary School-Greenville, IL
Midland State Bank-Greenville, IL
Tri-Ford-Highland, IL
Ford Square-Mt. Vernon, IL
Greenville Jr. High 6th Graders-Greenville, IL
Glow Salon & Med Spa-MO
West Springs Church-MO
Bradford National Bank-Greenville, IL
DeMoulin's-Greenville, IL
St. Mary's School-Edwardsville, IL
VFW Ladies Auxiliary-Highland, IL
Schnuck's-Fairview Heights, IL
Bond County Health Department-Greenville, IL
Bass Mollett-Greenville, IL
TRICOR Braun-MO
Bond County Courthouse-Greenville, IL
Montgomery County Nursing & Rehab-Hillsboro, IL
McCracken, Dawdy, Hall Family Practice-Greenville, IL
SIUE Human Resources-Edwardsville, IL
United Stationers-Greenville, IL
Main Street Galaxy Restaurant-Alhambra, IL
Terra Properties-Highland, IL
Bond County Sheriff's Department-Greenville, IL
IGA-Staunton, IL
Pickerill's Pick'n "N" Grinn'n-Staunton, IL
Ethal's-Highland, IL
Mulberry Grove Elementary School-Mulberry Grove, IL
Watson's Drug Store-Greenville, IL
Pocahontas & Sorento Elementary Schools-Pocahontas & Sorento, IL
Salon de Guerra-Highland, IL
Law Offices of Michael Diaz-Greenville, IL
Klaus Services-Highland, IL

Our family was overwhelmed with the response to Jeans Month. In the beginning we were hoping to raise $500-$1,000. That goal was met before February 1st. Our girls then set a goal of $5,000 and that was surpassed! Lastly, they set a goal of $10,000 which was met at the very end of March. But the calls and checks kept coming through the second week of March. Our family would like to thank the businesses who participated and gave donations! We would also like to thank the many inidividual donations we received from those who just wanted to give.

My husband and I took the girls down to St. Louis Children's Hospital March 21, 2010 to present the donations to the hospital. Upon arrival the hospital had printed a "HUGE" check to present. The girls presented the check to Dr. Wilson, Dr. Ziga, and Nurse Practitioner Karen from the 9th Floor.

Thank you all for everything,

The Watson Family :)

Sunday, January 16, 2011

January 15-16, 2011

Saturday-Tracy and I slept in this morning and the girls got home about noon. They had a great time with Grandma and slept well too! I had Alyssa take about an hour nap this afternoon before she had to shower and leave for Abbey's birthday sleepover at the Sheraton in St. Louis. Trystan just relaxed all day and then got cleaned up so we could do something this evening. Tracy, Trystan, and myself took Alyssa into town to meet up with Abbey's dad. We said our good-byes and then met Tim, Lori, and Cade to go to the RV Show in St. Louis. We all rode in Tim's vehicle together. On our way to St. Louis we stopped in Collinsville to eat at Steak n Shake. Once we arrived at the RV Show the girls were in and out of almost every camper! They had a really good time. Trystan only rode in her wheelchair a little, but did complained off and on that her throat hurt. She fell asleep on the way home. Sure hoping she's not getting sick.


Sunday-It was one year ago today that Trystan finished her very last chemo treatment. Only there won't be much celebrating it today. Because we woke up to Trystan in the doorway to our room saying she's gonna get sick. I just told her to try to get to the toilet. Tracy got her cleaned up while I cleaned the floors and the bathroom up. He took her temperature and yes she had a low grade fever. She went right back to sleep and slept til almost 10:00 a.m. When Trystan did get up her fever had gone up about a degree. I got her to suck on some ice chips and those seemed to stay down o.k. She then was able to take a Tylenol to help with the fever and sore throat. We're not sure if it's a stomach bug, upper respritory flu, or possibly strep throat. Have to wait thru the day and see how she is tomorrow. Alyssa arrived home late this afternoon and had an excellent time! It all came to an end about 8:00 though because Alyssa then started showing symptoms of having the same thing that Trystan has. I think it's going to be a long night.

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