GAN WARRIORS: GAN Warriors awareness night!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

GAN Warriors awareness night!

Our first "GAN Warriors awareness night" was a huge success. The turn out was wonderful and the help was amazing. Thank you, thank you to all of you who came and who helped make this night so much fun. It certainly was a night to remember.
The slide show of the GAN Warriors was shown and a talk was given about GAN and Hannah's Hope Fund.
We also had a cake making challenge and that was incredible. There were two categories to enter, one being TASTE and the other being LOOKS. The day of the event only 20 people had registered to enter the contest, but there ended up being 64 cakes that showed up!
Prizes for the winners were a Kindle Fire, Ipod Touch, MP3 Walkman, camera, greenhouse gift certificate,and Bob Wards gift cards. A HUGE thank you to the local businesses that donated these prizes and made this event so exciting. It wouldn't have been possible without you!
Woody( from Toy Story) was there to greet the children and give them a balloon. Over two hundred balloons were blown up and by the end of the night almost half were on the gym ceiling.

Levi was so excited to see Woody and even more so when Woody gave him one of his guns to keep.
Just his smiles over that, made this night worth it!

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Magaen BatesMay 24, 2012 at 5:39 PM
This is such a great story. Love the pictures of the smiles!
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Meet Levi!

Levi is five years old and attends Kindergarten. His best friends are his brother Shawn, and his cousin Simon. He has a passion for cars- they are his favorite toy. His favorite color is red. His favorite store is the Dollar Store. Levi asks alot of questions about Heaven. He's glad that there are no sick people in Heaven, but sometimes worries that he might have to go there without his mom and dad. He really wants to get better and run. He says he, "wants to be a runner like Daddy was". Levi is friendly and polite, and very patient about having a disease and being different. He has leg braces and uses a walker. At school, he uses a wheel chair for longer distances (like back and forth from the playground) to conserve energy.

Meet Aaron and Alan!

Aaron and Alan are identical twins. The best way for people to tell them apart is that Alan is missing a tooth. He knocked it out when he fell down (which he does a lot due to the disease) and hit a chair. The twins are best buddies and if they are not together, they ask where their "dud" is. They love the movie "Iron Giant", their dog Charlie, and cars- like Levi. They both have shy sweet smiles, and are very good natured children, even though they often suffer with nausea and vomiting, which is part of the disease. It's hard to be around them and not want to cuddle and hold them. They are almost four years old, and the disease has progressed to the point where they need leg braces.