Words cannot express our gratitude!!!

We finally have wireless here in DC and we wanted to express our gratitude for Friday nights fundraiser. It was so overwhelming to drive up and see a firetruck in the parking lot raising a huge American flag and to walk into the Jr. high with our family and see so many people that we love running around in green shirts busily getting everything ready for the night. We know countless hours were put into this night by so many people, we couldn't possibly name them all or thank them all personally. Please know how much this night meant to us and know that we love you all and our hearts are so grateful. We also want to thank all of the people who donated the items up for bid and the food and the prizes, etc. There are so many things that went on behind the scenes that we are not even aware of. We did not lift a finger for this event. We were told that we just needed to show up! We were absolutely blown away by the number of people who came out to support us that evening. It felt like reunion or like your wedding day when so many of our friends and family and people that we have not seen in a long time that have touched our life in some way come out to say that they are praying for us and that they love us. We are so blessed to have so much love and support from family, friends, church, neighbors, past coworkers and so on. Again, we are reminded of Matthew 6:33 which says but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. We don't know what the future holds, but God knows all of our needs and he takes care of us as he always has.

We arrived safely in Washington DC on Saturday and had our first day of the ALS Advocacy Conference and are very excited to be here making a difference for the ALS community. Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers and I can't wait to celebrate it with my kids when we get back home! We miss you Zach and Maddie! We will update more about the conference this week. Tomorrow is a full schedule and Tuesday will be our meetings with Congress. Keep us in your prayers especially on Tuesday at 10, 11, 12 and 2:00 that Eric will have the words to say that make an impact on Michigan's congressmen and that God will shine through him.

After we return home on Wednesday, things should slow down for us and we are looking forward to some down time at home with our kids! The picture of Zach above is from his wax museum at school posed as Francis Marion. He did a great job on Friday as did the whole classroom! We just cannot end this without a special thank you to Zach's elementary school (Bauerwood) for their loose change collection this week for our fundraiser which raised over 1300.00 which was presented at the fundraiser in a tote too heavy to lift! We just cried when we heard that! We are so deeply moved by everyone's generousity that night and their love! Thank you again from the bottom of our heart!
Love,
Lori and Eric