Adopt an Owl Pictures

We have posted a bunch of pictures of our completed owls to the Adopt An Owl Page.  Just click on the link above to be taken to that page.

Adopt an Owl Program

We are moving forward in full force with our Adopt an Owl Program.  Here are just a few of the owls that are in the works that will be adoptable later this month.

Why I Relay by:Michelle Sims

That C word is one of my least favorites in the English Language.  Unfortunately Cancer has touched every one of us in one way or another.  Some have fought or are fighting for their own lives, others have watched as their loves ones have fought and either lost the battle or come out victorious. 

When my grandmother was diagnosed with brain cancer, it came as a huge shock. She was such a healthy person and was very health concious. She had surgery to remove her tumor, but unfortunatly she didn't last very long afterwards.  She lost her battle with that dreaded C word and we lost her in our lives, at least temporarily.

Many years later, that C word once again hit me like a ton of bricks when my mom was dignosed with Multiple Myeloma.  She was also in complete kidney failure which was caused by the cancer.  She lived for 3 years on kidney dialysis, she had chemotherapy, lost her hair, and lived life the best she could knowing her time was limited.

It has now been five years since my mother passed from this life.  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss her.  I have been involved with relay now for 4 years and it is my way of fighting back.  It helps me to feel as if I am doing something in my mother's name.

So it is for them that I relay. 

I relay for my grandmother. 

I relay for my mom.

I relay for my good friend Eliza (our team captain)

who has had her own fight with cancer.

I relay for me and the hope that I never hear that dreaded word regarding my own health or in regards to my husband and children.

I relay for my children and the hope that one day we can wipe that C word right our of our dictionary because it is no longer a threat. 

I relay in hopes that one day there will be a cure for Cancer!!!