Yep, you heard it…I said that phrase probably about 20 different times yesterday! Did I mention it was 95 degrees outside!! What a long day!!

My mom came down here on Wednesday evening and spent the night. We were up and ready to go out the door by 6 am! Yes, I was up…but I’m not a morning person AT.ALL. We grabbed McDonald’s and headed to the parking lot where the school shuttle buses were. We didn’t have to wait at all to get onto the bus, so no time to eat breakfast!

We get to the house at 6:30 am and eat our breakfast on the neighbor’s lawn. They had the yard blocked off by gates so you knew where you were/weren’t allowed to be.

The volunteers start throwing things into the audience…how exciting! Michael got a pair of shorts that have that little red bear bottom from Charmin on it. When we went to the bathroom, someone handed each of us a Charmin t-shirt. Then they started throwing out bracelets. They were in support of the SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy…which is what the 2 girls have). Both Michael & Noah got one of those.

We did take after take after take after take of the bus moving, the family arriving, the crowd screaming. By the time the family actually arrived…we were all tired of yelling…not really, but I was!

We seen a number of people pass out from heat and the medical staff run through the crowd to take care of them. The volunteers did bring out case after case of water to pass out to the crowd. The thing I didn’t understand, why would you come to this event unprepared? They weren’t there to give out water and food to you while you were there, the news told you to bring water and food to the event if you were going. Even when they interviewed Ty, he told everyone to bring an umbrella for shade, food and water.

Michael took off (I gave him boundaries of where he was allowed to be), apparently, he wiggled his way up to the front and even gave Ty a high 5! Little bugger! I would have L.O.V.E.D. to have gotten a photo of that, but I was way back in the crowd…people don’t really like to move for a double stroller, so we pretty much found our spot and stayed put!

It was really neat to see the family actually arrive and yes, I did see

Michael Moloney

Paul DiMeo

Ed Sanders

and Ty Pennington!

Yeah, I know, they are hard to see, but I wasn’t really close to the front…remember the stroller? Yeah, we were stuck in the middle of the crowd!

The house

I hope you enjoyed looking, I had fun, but it was HOT and my arms are now burnt, my boys thankfully didn’t get much sun…my mom, however, she’s really, REALLY red!

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