Alex's lemonade!

So tonights blog is about Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation ( I am too lazy to upload my photos for the past two days for the photo a day challenge)

Two summers ago, I read,  in a magazine, about Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.  The foundation started with a little girl by the name of Alex Scott who had cancer.  She wanted to raised money for kids with cancer in hopes to find a cure.  Alex had succumbed to her cancer and became one of God's angel's.  Before her death though, Alex had held a lemonade stand to raise the money.  Ever since, her family has been carrying on the tradition of the lemonade stand on the lemonade days, which usually occur around the second weekend in June.  The family opened up their idea to the rest of the world, and encouraged the world to host lemonade stands throughout the year to help raise more money towards cancer research.

To date, I can't remember how many stands we have held in the past two summers, but we have raised over $6,000.  This summer, we plan to hold various events to be able to double our money raised thus far.  We're shooting to raise $6G in one summer.  To do this, we have a few ideas: car wash, guest bartending night, lemonade stand, and coin cans.

The reason we do this is because in high school, in our small 90 person class, we had two classmates with cancer, who eventually succumbed to their cancers.  They were Johnny Sorensen and Rosemarie Miller, both of whom I knew personally.  I worked for Johnny's family during the summers and was close friends with him.  Rose and I became friends during the end of junior year and through senior year.  We hung out for a majority of our senior trip in Italy.  So, anything to do with raising funds and awareness for cancer.....I'm there!

Our funds are being placed towards my team lemon page for the foundation.  Although, right now, I am the only one running in the half marathon in August for team lemon out of our friends, we are all collectively raising money and awareness together!!

So that being said....if you would like to help us out and reach our goal of $6300....you can follow the link and donate directly to our page
http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/80383

....ORRRR you can text Lemonade E80383    to 85944 for a $10.00 donation.

ANY little bit HELPS! Even if its a few coins its more money towards cancer research for the kids!!

If you would like to host an event to raise money, simply go to alexslemonade.org