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For the Love of Zoie-Great Strides Walk 2013

I cannot believe it's that time of year already; Spring is in the air, and that means we are gearing up for our second year of joining the Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis!  This year I changed our team name to "For the Love of Zoie."  For all of you who have our purple bracelets, that's the name of them, so we figured we would go with that.  It seemed fitting :)
This year the walk will take place in Fort Collins again, on Saturday June 8th.  They usually ask you to show up around 8 to check in and gather as a team, then the walk starts at 9 am.  Its a 5K (3.1) miles.  Last year we had about 25 walkers join our team.  Our goal this year is to have 50 or more.  We were able to raise around 1,800.00 dollars last year.  I set our team goal at 5,000 this year.  It's a bit of a stretch, but I would love to help the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation out for research as much as possible, because it could mean a longer life for Zoie and so many other people with CF.
For those of you who do not know, CF is a chronic lung disease where you have a build up of mucus on your lung lining.  It can also cause pancrease issues where all the nurtients in your food isn't obsorbed correctly.  Zoie suffers from more of the lung issues, as many of you have seen with how much she has been sick this year.
This walk holds a very special place in our heart, so we ask if you are able, please join our team, or any team for that matter!  (Jema or Ava :) )  The walk is free to sign up for, but donations are welcome!  Remember our goal is 5,000 dollars, and we have to get there somehow.  Our family is buying shirts this year for the first 50 people who sign up, obviously if we go way over that we will look into getting more so that everyone gets one. We want to give you a shirt as a thank you to signing up and donating to Cystic Fibrosis. 
I will post a link right below this on where to sign up for the walk.  Remember, register under the team, "For the Love of Zoie" and if you have any problems please let me know by leaving a comment below and I will get you signed up! 
We are so excited to be a part of the Colorado Chapter to support our sweet Zoie <3

http://www.cff.org/great_strides/
Follow this link and you want to go to the area that says find a team.  Type in "For the Love of Zoie" and from there you can sign up to walk with us and donate :) 

Thanks for participating! 

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