All for the Gators...stand up and holler!

As you may have read in a previous post, September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. My husband, Pete, and I are UF alumni and huge Gator fans! (That's us in the second image- a self portrait!) We volunteer for the Children's Cancer Center and are blessed to be able to work with an amazing group of kids and staff! Four years ago we took a group of teens from the Center to Gainesville for the Florida/Kentucky game. This year my sister-in-law and brother-in-law were able to get tickets donated from the Palm Beach Gator Club to the Florida/Troy game...so back to Gainesville we went for the second "Dream Teens" Gator game! Getting to go to a college game is so much fun and such a life changing experience for some of these kids. We actually met up with 3 Children's Cancer Center "alumni" who are now freshmen at UF (and cancer free!!!)- Evan, Jesee, and Matt! Evan and Jesse went with us to UF 4 years ago for the game and Jesse (third image from the top, orange shirt) told me, "It was at that game that I knew I wanted to be a Gator. This is where I wanted to come to school." My eyes welled up with tears- I was so proud! And knowing that UF is one of the hardest schools to get into made me even more proud!

Here are just a few snap shots from the game with my point and shoot- most of them taken by the kids...but very "blog worthy" if you ask me! GO GATORS!!!

Special thanks to "Heads and Tails" on Kennedy Blvd who donated shirts, hats, and tatooes to all of the kids!