There is an organization in town called, "Prayers from Maria" that raises money for a specific childhood cancer. Maria's family started it when she passed away from the rare disease. Each year, they plant sunflowers in a huge field in her memory. People come to the field to learn the stories of children that have passed away from cancer, to take pictures, to buy shirts and merchandise to advertise and raise awareness, and to make donations to this wonderful organization.
We usually visit the field multiple times in the fall and it is always bittersweet. It is incredibly sad to walk through and read about all the children who lost their battle to cancer. It makes us count our blessings each and every day for our sweet boys and our health. At the same time, the field is so gorgeous that it automatically makes you happy as well. It really is an incredible thing to see, with an even more incredible purpose.
This year, we gave a donation for a professional photographer to take our pictures for 10 minutes one morning. We also went back another time and took a few more pictures again. Here are all our pictures...hope you enjoy!
From the photographer...
After we visited the Sunflower Field the morning we took our pictures, Landon and Keegan decided to have a lemonade stand that afternoon in our development to raise money for childhood cancer. The neighbors jumped in to help halfway through and the kids ended up raising $70 in an hour and a half. We went back to the field to take them the money and the workers were so impressed with the boys! The fact that we have two healthy boys that are able to do things like that is really special. I'm sure any one of the families who have lost a child would give anything to have just a few more moments with their child. Hopefully the small amount of money that we were able to contribute can go towards the research to help cure this awful disease.
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