The Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes Community Kick Off

We have recently attended the Community Kick off for the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes.  It was a wonderful event with food, music and raffles.  The only thing that shocked me was there were no sugar free drinks available for the diabetics at the event.  When we were leaving the house my husband said to me “do you think that we should bring Cara’s kool-aid (sugar free)?”  I told him no, I’m sure there will be something for all the diabetics to drink.  Boy was I wrong!!  It was our first year at this event and like ” the newbie’s” we are, we had to borrow a kool-aid from the women that was sitting next to us.  I felt so dumb.

We did meet some wonderful families in our area that I’m looking forward to seeing at the walk.  Meeting new families with children who are type 1 diabetics was the main reason that I wanted to bring the family to this event.  The other reason was to show the kids how and why we need to get involved to raise money and find a cure.  Surprisingly they were paying attention.  During the speeches we were told the the JDRF was trying to get schools in the area involved with the fundraising.  Kailyn decided that she wanted to get her school involved with a sneaker day.  She spoke to the representative for the school board who told her that she had already sent out e-mails to all the schools and only 1 school got back to her and it was not Kailyn’s school.  Kailyn took all the information and decided that she was going to have a sneaker day at her school.  She spoke to the principal and with some convincing she manged to talk them into it.  Way to go Kailyn….she made me very proud!

Cara won a raffle prize, a back-pack full of little girl toys and things.  She was so excited while she walk up to get her prize the coordinator of the event introduced us to the whole room.  I was so embarrassed my face must have been so red!  but at least people will know who we are now! lol.  On Cara’s way back to the table she had the biggest smile on her face dragging the back- pack , it was so full of toys it was heavy for a tiny little 3 year old.  However behind Cara was a very upset Kylie.  She did not understand why she did not get a prize too.  We tried to explain to her but she was having non of it.  Cara even shared a Tinker Bell fairy puzzle with Kylie but she was still not very impressed but was able to compose herself enough for a picture.

The night ended up with Kylie and Cara dancing on the stage (the only people dancing) to the music and I won a beautiful plant that I will try very hard not to kill!  We all had a wonderful time!!