WE DID IT!!!

What an amazing weekend I had!!! Andrea Berry and I walked 40 miles in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk. We walked 27.2 miles the first day and 13.1 the second day. Notice the 27.2 was suppose to be a Marathon(26.2) but we somehow got off the course with about 50 other people and walked an extra mile. It was a HUGE accomplishment both mentally and physically. We have blisters from the down pores of rain the first 18 miles and VERY sore legs! Waking up this morning and walking a Half Marathon was the hardest part. I felt like I looked like an old woman walking. We walked a total of 15 hours the whole weekend!! Poor Andrea had 8 blisters on her feet and even though she could barely walk the last day, I never heard her complain. She has an amazing attitude!!! Thanks Andrea for a GREAT weekend. It was really neat to have John and the girls at the finish line cheering us on today. They all had on pink! Taylor Grace came running up to me and hugged me and just stood there and wouldn't let me go! She was really proud of me and asked was it really hard???
We met some amazing people with some amazing stories that magnified the meaning of the whole weekend. I started this journey because of Lorrie...There aren't any walks for Colon Cancer but if they can find a cure for Breast Cancer then that will lead to a cure for ALL cancers. She was there to surprise me at the end of the first day with my parents. That was really special to have them there cheering us on and telling us how proud they were of us. I will forever remember walking mile 5 on the second day and talking to a lady she was on Team HOPE! She said that in 2007 she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and had a mascectomy and went through chemo and just last week had a CT scan and found out that it was back and had moved to her pelvic. She choaked up, I choaked up and I said well... I am doing this for YOU!!! I saw her at the end when she finished and she was crying (she was walking with her husband and friend) and I gave her a big hug and said I would be praying for her!! This is why Cancer STINKS and we have to find a CURE! Wow, stories like that really put life into perspective!

Also, here are the flowers my daddy sent me to school because he was proud of me for what I did for Breast Cancer. He later told me that he got tears in his eyes when he saw us coming towards the end of the first day.