Light The Night with Zumba

I love to read blogs…and two of them that I read religiously are don’t waste your cancer and enjoying the small things.  Both have recently mentioned how blogging is funny because sometimes there are events that just don’t make it into the blog, whether they are huge events or totally insignificant little things…sometimes things get through the cracks and go unnoticed. And what do you know…oddly enough I was looking back for a post on last years Light The Night walk and I realized I never posted anything about it…weird huh?!?

So last year, myself, my Mother and a few amazing life-long friends participated in the Light The Night 5k walk at Angels Stadium.  Mother and I have done MANY MANY breast cancer walks/events since her battle with breast cancer back in 2004.  So now that I too am a cancer survivor we’ve made it a point to make sure we do at least 1 breast cancer event every year AND one Lymphoma event too!!  So Light The Night is a walk that raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, they have walks throughout the year all over the United States. Actually another blog I follow recently posted about their Light The Night team (see here). Since lots of my friends are Angels fans, we do the Orange County walk that goes through Angel Stadium. Its lots of fun, and I love everyone that supports me during these events.

Last years team…2010 Carin’ For Erin

Anna, Nichole, Sandi, Gabby, ME, Erika, Donnita, Jamie, and Bernie (aka Mother).

This years Carin’ For Erin team has grown…by lots of people…and some of our old team members are multiplying (Jamie is prego w/ Baby Jaxson due in Oct…and they will “both” be participating in the walk this year).  Anyway…I’ve totally fallen in love with Zumba.  I try going as often as I can…and my AWESOME Zumba instructor, Kim Jenkins (who can be found here) does private parties. So I thought…I wanna get Kim to my house so all my girlfriends can do some Zumba…wheels in my head were turning and HEY…we’ll make it a Zumba fundraiser for Light The Night!! I  planned for Saturday August 27th…you know RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of a freakin’ heat wave in Southern California! We were in my backyard at 6pm and it was still well OVER 95  degrees. But around 25 faithful women showed up paid $10 for an hour of Zumba (and jello shots to follow)…and we got to shake our booties!! Whoohoo!! So so so much fun!

This was the group that turned out!!! Friends from all walks of life!!!

 

   

Can you tell that purple is our new team color this year?? Ü

I heard a lot of laughing from back in this corner with these ladies <------

I hope they all had a good time. I was very proud of my best friend Cindy…who doesn’t dance sober nor does she ever work out…but she hung in there and did the whole hour!! 

 

 

After the hour of Zumba we had chips and salsa, fruit, cookies, muffins, candy…you know all the healthy foods! haha  Oh and beer, wine, Toxic Lemonade, and 75 jello shots…

I think Kim liked them…or Jen was just REALLY good at forcing them down her throat!

Thank you ladies for coming and donating to a wonderful cause, and to those that are always supporting me through sickness and health I appreciate it oh so much!…oh and the total we raised was $287!! yay! Ü

My pantry door is decorated with  “donation balloons”…I feel like we look like Vons.  If anyone is still interested in donating to our team or any individual member of the team, our donation page can be found here  OR if you’d like to register and become a MEMBER of our team you can do that at the same site as the donation. (Its free to register…most awesome event ever! haha I likey free!)