Beaverton's Bark For Life '12...

Saturday was Beaverton's 3rd Annual Bark For Life. New location, Greenway Park and it was great! Lots of folks played a huge role in making this a success! We borrowed mom & dad's doggies (Jessie & Murphy) for the event and they had fun, albeit were exhausted with so much excitement!

Wrapping up another great weekend...

Another fun weekend is in the books! I had a 3-hour Relay Council meeting on Friday afternoon...so excited about my new role and folks I get to work with more!

Victor and I had a FUN date night dinner and Chicago Friday night.  My friend James (high school) was amazing as Billy Flynn!  The entire production was FUN!

Saturday we spent the morning at Hillsboro's Bark For Life...the doggies were nervous, but really good!  Then lunch with Daddy before he headed off for gaming...Charlie and I ran some errands and then girl time Saturday night...

Sunday was SUPPOSE to be for a bit of sleeping in, but somebody decided to set her alarm clock and woke-up at 6:30am...we had a good day, lunch with my folks and Charlie's friend Elisabeth's birthday party...shower for the kiddo, reading and just waiting for daddy to get home from work.

This is the last calm weekend for the foreseeable future and I feel rested and blessed!

Murphy, Victor, Jessie & Charlie at Hillsboro's First Annual Bark For Life on Saturday!

Dad, Charlie and Mom today at lunch...makes me smile!

First Annual Bark For Life...

was a SUCCESS!! We had over 57 registered doggies, raised over $2,000 and had FUN Saturday morning! We lucked out with the weather, it was overcast and the sun took a while to break out of the clouds.

THANK YOU to our Bark For Life Planning Committee: Nicki, Dean, Jeanie, Tafena, Alina and Ed Bonilla - you guys did an amazing job! A special THANKS to Nicki! If Nicki hadn't had the passion & vision to make this happen, it would have never launched off the ground. A special THANKS also to our amazing Staff Partner DANA, who helped us look outside "the kennel", hooked us up with some FUN BFL gifts and helped make Nicki's passion for Bark become a reality!!!

Thanks to all the many volunteers both before, during and after the event! Also to our Relay Committee family members, who help us year round when the Committee members get these crazy Relay ideas -- without the continued support of our families, we wouldn't be able to do these type of events.

Thanks to all the folks that registered their canine companions and all the humans that accompanied their doggies! Thanks to all the folks that don't even have doggies that showed up to support this event!

Thanks to our Teams that had on-site FUNdraisers and our Sponsors and Vendors for their support! A personal SHOUT OUT from me to Team Basket Kases for a Cure in providing the FOOD vendor booth! You saved a lot of us having to make food trips!

Two PAWS UP on a great inaugural event! Can't wait for next year (well, I actually can...we still have to get thru Relay in less than 4-weeks)...

Warning...this post has over 70 photos...a new record for a single post! I just couldn't leave any doggies out...