2 weeks to go!

First of all thank you to the R family and the C family for their donations to help us get to Stanford for Alena's surgery!

We are now two weeks from our departure date and a little bit over that for Alena's surgery date. Of course the jitters have started in the Zupko household over this surgery and trip. Alena's teacher this year Mrs. B made her a wonderful little PECs book (picture system communication) to help her understand what is going on. Mrs. B has been Alena's teacher for three years in preschool and has done so much for her and we are going to miss her tremendously!!

I also made one with Teague in mind since it will be a lot for him to process as well.

We have now made it to 1900 dollars raised for Alena and our family is just so overwhelmed with the generosity of our friends (and some people we have just met). We have 1100 till our original goal. I can also see in our Marriott Rewards account that we have raised 52,000 points so far, this is enough points for two and a half nights stay for free saving us 208 dollars on our trip! If you have Marriot points to donate I would welcome them, Marriott has set up a special account for Alena's heart surgery trip and you can find more information here: http://alenasbrokenheart.blogspot.com/2012/05/wanna-get-to-know-alena-and-find-new.html

Please feel free to share this information with your friends and family! We have also set up a Facebook account for updates on Alena including updates about her surgery when the time comes so please feel free to join it as well. You can find that here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/217545245022169/

Thank you so much for being a part of our journey!!