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We can and we will help to make a change in our part of the world...beCAUSE!beCAUSEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09221159859904161223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217595738046874750.post-7175545883078491162011-04-13T12:49:00.000-07:002011-04-13T12:49:39.204-07:00halfway there: beCAUSE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hv6X-fJz_aQ/TaXyaT0WwcI/AAAAAAAAALQ/86ySCcqgkhg/s1600/4Up+Combined.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hv6X-fJz_aQ/TaXyaT0WwcI/AAAAAAAAALQ/86ySCcqgkhg/s1600/4Up+Combined.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">1/2...halfway...in the middle of... equal distance from...ALMOST THERE!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beCAUSE she cares is halfway to their goal...$200.00. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">{4 Japan} {4 Cancer}</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the earthquake in Japan, Mikaela decided to make a stand. She collected her friends, emptied her coin purse and began to share the need. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going door to door she knocked for the CAUSE. The CAUSES are Japan and Cancer. We all have been affected by one of these Causes and children are no exception. They notice the subtle and not-so-subtle. So when a child decides to take action, we listen. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pennies + dimes + dollars = $100.00</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japan will RISE. The sun has not set on this beautiful country. People get ready for a huge AWAKENING!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">{4 Cancer}... to give towards the fight. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>beCAUSEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09221159859904161223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217595738046874750.post-27166926693463603462011-03-31T22:54:00.000-07:002011-03-31T22:54:03.395-07:00beCAUSE She Cares<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKbJ9UC_1U0/TZViyd96X8I/AAAAAAAAALA/ehxlJQbNU6s/s1600/IMG_1282.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKbJ9UC_1U0/TZViyd96X8I/AAAAAAAAALA/ehxlJQbNU6s/s320/IMG_1282.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CfcKMweiRrI/TZVi0BOAV0I/AAAAAAAAALE/KudPGZ1L0Rk/s1600/IMG_1283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CfcKMweiRrI/TZVi0BOAV0I/AAAAAAAAALE/KudPGZ1L0Rk/s320/IMG_1283.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The smile wraps around her face as she approaches the stylists chair. She is always giving, caring and loving others but this time she wants to give more...her hair. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night we poured over the different organizations that take donated hair. The deciding factor was...how many inches will they cut? She knew that she wanted to give her hair, but how much would she be left with? So, we found the Pantene organization that would accept hair cut at 8". Okay that was the one we would give to! Mikaela, even with her giving heart, still wanted to maintain a certain level of comfort, minus a few inches. Off we go to the Image West Salon and the van was filled with excitement and fear, but her determination remained fixed...giving a girl a chance to feel pretty. Little Mikaela could not image life without hair, it was hard enough to lose a few inches, but she pressed on! We arrive and tell the stylist what she was about to do and the criteria for submission.</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snip...Snip...Snip.... It is cut! No turning back!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sCXelpudLLI/TZVoATejKVI/AAAAAAAAALI/qFUOlN_8GEg/s1600/IMG_1284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sCXelpudLLI/TZVoATejKVI/AAAAAAAAALI/qFUOlN_8GEg/s320/IMG_1284.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is amazing. I watched her smile turn to a stare as she evaluated the decision that she made. It was gone. Mikaela sat patiently as her hair was cut, evened and blown dry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then in the car she cried. Her hair was gone and she came out a little shorter than she had hoped for! She now could donate to Locks of Love and give a child a wig. As we talked over the weight of her decision, she began to feel lighter and smiled at the thought of a little girl enjoying the hair she once wore. Mikaela's sacrifice came at a big cost but beCAUSE she cares another with reap the benefit of her loss.... a wig. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><!--EndFragment-->beCAUSEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09221159859904161223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217595738046874750.post-69823716985766120462011-03-21T22:59:00.001-07:002011-03-21T22:59:10.680-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/X1L5s_lfKNQ/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X1L5s_lfKNQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X1L5s_lfKNQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>beCAUSEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09221159859904161223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217595738046874750.post-22128100855251036512011-03-21T20:28:00.001-07:002011-03-21T22:36:02.024-07:00A girls quest to fight cancer and restore Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aOyEd4qZYz0/TYga0stNemI/AAAAAAAAAKo/NWEE6f3fmxM/s1600/DSC_0277.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-aOyEd4qZYz0/TYga0stNemI/AAAAAAAAAKo/NWEE6f3fmxM/s320/DSC_0277.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It started with a thought and grew into an idea. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One girl and three friends wanting to help people that are in need. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The need is cancer, a scary disease for young kids and older kids too! </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She wants to help cancer patients fight this disease and her biggest concern was to help them because they lose their hair. Out of this, Mikaela's heart was torn and left wanting to do something...WHY?...beCAUSE!</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">beCAUSE she can, beCAUSE she hurts for those in need, beCAUSE she wants to be the change!</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, why stop with cancer, Mikaela added Japan too. It is just like a child to know no bounds. I love her heart and how she goes for it ALL. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So tonight, she gathered her "cash box" and went door to door with her friends, to help in a way that she can...collect money. They collected $50.00 and made a plan to continue until they reach their goal, which is $200.00. They were so excited to go door to door and collect money, it was like they were going trick or treating for candy.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The screams of excitement filled the car </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>as we drove around the block they chanted--more! </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Pennies, dimes, quarters and bills </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>the total mounted...one ...two...four</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> A way to help </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>A need to fill</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>A young girls wish </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>A heart fulfilled</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>So we will continue to knock </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and we will continue to share</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>of the needs of this world</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>beCAUSE she cares.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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