Saturday was the Ronald McDonald House Charities 5k/1m event here in Las Vegas.
When we first started coming up with a game plan for our Little Miss Hannah Organization, one of our main goals was to be able to support those organizations that meant so much to us during Hannah’s journey. The Ronald McDonald House was a huge one, as I spent 30 days living there while Daddy and the kids were moving across country from Texas to Vegas.
My sister-in-law and I were hoping to get a team of at least 20 people. Between my sister-in-law, a friend, and my friends, we had almost 70 participants in the run! Crazy, I know!! We actually had the second or third largest team of the day.
It was just incredible to see so many people, even ones I didn’t even know, wearing their LMHF sunshine-heart logo shirts with my little girl’s picture on the back.
I will admit, I had a moment when after our team picture was taken and all the people were walking towards the start of the race, my stomach felt a little weird seeing so many people with Hannah’s picture on the back. It was one of those “that’s MY baby girl” moments, so I did step away from our booth for about 10 minutes just to regroup and refocus.
Hannah's Minnie Mouse - decked out in a T-shirt - she was there in spirit with us!
We had a booth at the event so that we could start sharing our mission and our goals with the community. Right now, the only people who know us are the ones that KNOW our family or friends of our family. I’m not very experienced at doing the booth thing, but I think I did okay.
There were a handful of people that we met who you could tell just understood what we wanted to do and volunteered to help. THAT was one of the best parts of the morning ~ seeing a complete stranger believe in something that you feel so strongly about.
We handed out about 200 of our postcards along with fliers for our TGI Friday’s fundraiser on June 7th.
We are definitely going to do it again next year. We even met some runners there who want to join our team for next year. Maybe we can be the largest team!
But it definitely and positively served its purpose. We raised over $1200 for our local Ronald McDonald House and we also gave us a chance to get out there and share our organization.
You HAVE to check out the pictures ~ so inspiring and fun!
Do they have the date set for next year? I would love to be able to make it!