How Much??

So we were officially committed, and we both knew that the sooner we started on our fundraising and training,, the better. As it turns out, when you sign up to be an Ultimate Hiker you commit to raise $2500 to help fund the life saving childrens cancer research. What we didn't think full circle about was, that $2500 number was EACH.
Yup Brian and I committed to raising $5000 or more to help try and save the lives of kids we didnt even know! Kids and families we would never meet. $5000 is alot of money!
Well it's alot of money when you think about trying to raise it, but in the big picture of things,, $5000 is so incredibly small. When you learn what it costs to save your child that is dying, the beautiful life that you created that is now suffering and in pain. The hospital bills, care giver bills, medicines, on and on... and take those numbers and multiply them over and over. How many times over?? How about 43 times each and every day!  That's how many children are diagnosed with cancer EACH DAY!! That's 43 families, today, another 43 tomorrow, and so on,, each one of them needing alot more than $5000 just to get them in the door of a hospital that will hopefully save their most precious gift.
So onward and upward, we dug in and created our fundraising page and got started sending out the emails.  We each had a page of our own, and then we had our Team page.. Team Terra Firma. We had committed to doing this together as a team and the money we were raising, we were doing it also as a team.  Check it out..  http://www.curesearchevents.org/goto/terrafirma.
We sent out hundreds of emails. no kidding,, hundreds and had some fun along the way competing our selves to see who could get the most donations. 

It wasnt easy but by hike day we were over 50% of the way there and climbing. (get it,, its a a hike, and we climb hills.. and our fundraising was "climbing".....?? Funny right? ,, you get a little dopey after hiking all those miles)