Apraxia Walk ...

Saturday, Oct 22nd was the second ever

Walk for Apraxia Awareness in Richmond, VA

brief history.....our grandson has a very severe case of Apraxia

He does not speak, he tries to make sounds and sometimes

he can but that's it. Our daughter last year thought of why not

have a walk to raise awareness for Apraxia. We knew of no one

that had this. So she thought by doing this she could meet other

families and build a community. CASANA told her you may have trouble.

They told her others had tried to have a walk and they were

not able to get it off the ground. 

But she thought why not try.

So last year was the first ever walk in Richmond. 

they had warned her don't be surprised if it's really small

and you don't raise much money

well it surprised everyone, the walk last year raised 

just over 12k and there were lots of walkers!!

This year, the second one, was not as big. Nicole was so busy with

a new baby she said she just didn't have the time to work

on it much. But was still nice, raised almost 4k and had about 

100 people so that was great. 

the 6 children there that have apraxia, they thought it was great

Our Maddox was in all of his glory!!

here's our son Jake and his fiancee working the registration table

Jacquelyn, Avery and our friend Debra worked the t-shirt table

here is my sister Kandi and my niece's husband Alex

Alex was so generous and set up the PA system for the walk

Really great to have family support and have them

just come to the walk

Nicole has a few tables set up with crafts for the kids to work on

Maddox had so much fun making the paper plate pumpkins

She has the event at the Sports Center of Richmond

nice to have indoor space especially on Saturday when it

was so windy. I couldn't imagine if we had to have all of this outside!

 here is Nicole with one of the Shining Stars, Brayden

He was one of the participants last year so we

all loved seeing him come back

here's part of my silly group....haha

Maddox's brother....John Thomas

Maddox's sister, Lorraine

I could not take a picture of Maddox's other brother Gabe

poor guy had poison ivy all over his face :(

Even the adults were having fun painting the Halloween mask

One of my little Princess'.....Lorraine, 11 months old

My other little Princess.....Avery Grace, 17 months old

our sweet "almost" daughter-in-law Kayce

My sister Vickie who was one of the volunteers

Another shining star, Katie

we made posters for each of them

Shining star Brad

Our 2 beautiful daughters

later......