At Primary Children's for the Best Fund Raiser Ever!

 So, this is me with Grant and Amanda, who do the early show (As in, I wake up to their friendly, newsy chatter every morning!) on our most popular radio station here in Utah, KSL.

KSL hosts a Radiothon every year at our local children's hospital, Primary Children's Medical Center.

Mr. P and I have been answering the phones for this event for more that 20 years.... we usually drag friends along, and this year my son Trevor and his wife Nell came up for their third time to help out.

Trevor and Nell are first in line, with my friend Robin and her Mr, on the other side of me.  Since Trevor and Nell's daughter spent a week at Primary's this past year, they had more enthusiasm than ever for this amazing charity event.

 Above, Doug Wright, the mid morning host, shares the live radio chatter with Grant and Amanda.

Here, Robin and I do a selfie while waiting for our phones to ring.  The radiothon did a different format this year, with just 8 hours on the phone to culminate an add campaign for the hospital that lasted a month, encouraging people to sign onto ksl.com where they could become 'Miracle Makers', by signing up for monthly withdrawals from their credit cards.

The phones were far busier this year,as we started out the radiothon with the first two hour shift.  There was so much energy, it was a lot of fun!

Robin's Mr, is a huge KSL fan, and brought his bobble heads of Greg Wrubell and Doug Wright to get them signed ... here they are with their respective live specimens behind them!

There were also another 20 volunteers, including a bank of Spanish speakers manning phones, these two girls were right across the set up from us ... don't they just make you proud?  Me too!!

This is truly the best charity anywhere, every single dime you donate goes to charity care at the hospital.  The hospitals services 6 western states, and never turns away a sick child because of inability to pay.  You may have read my blog post about the Primary Children's Festival of Trees, in which we also participate. We love this hospital!  As I said its the best charity in the world!

Scandinavianish Christmas Tree

 

... and here we go again ... the service group I belong to, We Can, started work on our ornaments for our tree this year...

These ornaments are made of a white, self drying clay made of corn starch and baking soda.

 

 

We make a tree each year and donate it to the Festival of Trees, one of two major fund raisers that are held for Primary Children's Hospital's charity care.

 

This paper bird was made by taking the silhouette, or shape of a bird I found on Graphics Fairy and shown below.

 

 

 

We will spend another work day making ornaments, then we will put the tree together the first Monday after Thanksgiving ... so stay tuned to see the completed tree.

 

And this is our inspiration tree, put together by my friend Jill last year.  I love how the red and white pop on the green tree.

A Smash Book for a Sick Girl

 We have just passed an eventful weekend ... My 6 year old granddaughter, sometimes called Birdy, is sick.  On Friday she woke up with a bad stomach ache, her Dad took her to Instacare, then later in the day to her pediatrician, who sent her to the emergency room of the local hospital and there they sent her to Primary Children's Hospital, the premiere Children's Hospital in 6 states.  If you have followed my blog, you know this is the hospital for which our family is involved in fund raisers twice a year.  Well, I am afraid its our turn to find out about the wonderful facility first hand.

 Here is our girl not long after she arrived, and before the meds helped her pain and her temperature. 

Knowing she would be there for a few days, I thought it would be fun to do a smash book for her to embellish.

 I found a picture of the hospital on line, to add to the book.

 I also found a couple of pictures for her to color on Graphics Fairy.  I left room for some of her own art work.

 I also included markers for her drawings, and some stickers to place where she sees fit in her book.

You can see that she was pretty happy by the time we left the hospital at 3:00 A.M., on Saturday night.

 

Now we are all feeling better too, what the doctors saw on her liver at the first hospital, is  now thought to be an infection.  The doctors have been giving her super antibiotics, and will do more scans today.