The turn-out was great for our Beef N’ Beer last night. We raised a bunch of money towards our goal. Raffle prizes were won and yes, without further adieu…. I got a mohawk…

A big thank you to Leah Allen for keeping all those head shavers between the lines and a huge thank you to the organizations and individuals that were kind enough to donate raffle prizes!

• Performance Health & Chiropractic
• With Heart & Healing Hands
• Battleship New Jersey
• Philadelphia Independence Seaport Museum
• Frankie “The Answer” Edgar
• The Philadelphia Phillies

Tonight, Abbe and I will be heading to Reading, PA for our next fundraiser, Dinner at The Works. If we get 30 people to show up this evening we receive 10% of the entire dining room bill as a donation, otherwise – we get zilch! So this is a big night for us, we think this could very well be our largest fundraiser in terms of dollars raised! That said, the homestretch is looking like it will be very tough. We have until December 19th to reach $11,000 and we are currently sitting at $7506 (the Beef N’ Beer should put us over $8000).

If you would care to donate to LLS and help us in our fight against blood cancers, please do so. If you are unable to give, please consider simply sharing or retweeting this post so others may do so.

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Abbe and I ran 18 miles yesterday at Kelly Drive. Today, we are holding a Beef N’ Beer Fundraiser for LLS at The Marlton Tavern between 5-8pm. There are some very cool raffle prizes, a seriously great spread of food, lots of excellent cocktails, I will be getting a mohawk, and a very special guest will be joining us. A friend of mine from my softball team is bringing a co-worker and his family, including a 6 year old little girl in remission with her battle against leukemia.

Throughout all the training and worry about raising this money – there still remains the power of seeing those that you are helping. During the marathon last year, Abbe and I ran along with and saw many survivors and families affected by blood cancers. Powerful, powerful stuff.

If you can make it to Marlton today, we would love to see you. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for kids. You WILL have a great time. And if you can not attend today and would like to help, please consider making an online donation at our team page. Already, we have exceeded the amount our team raised last year, but at $7,371 – we are still short of our goal of $11,000. The deadline to get donations in is just a few weeks away.

And I want to leave you with one last image… this is one of my proudest moments as a Dad – a sandwich bag that my daughter has had thumbtacked to our kitchen bulletin board for the past 6 months or so. Vivienne has placed most of her 7 year old life savings in this bag for her own donation to LLS. This very sweet 7 year old girl is donating around $10. $5 and $10 donations do mean a lot to this team and to those in the fight of their lives. We need you help. Please consider giving.

Thanksgiving was great. Very glad we celebrated with the Mecks in Longswamp. I’m doing a little bit of work today and Abbe and I are trying to figure out when we can get our 17 mile training run in this weekend. Big thanks to my high school buddy Karen and her son CJ for watching Titan for us while we were away for the night.

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A couple of wonderful things happened yesterday… first, Bubs’ ice hockey team won their first game of the season! Check out the boys celebrating as the final buzzer sounds (Bubs is #7, he joins the pile towards the end)…

And here is a very happy kid skating off the ice…

Afterwards, Bubs and I joined the party back at my place, Abbe and Paige had a great Silpada Party going. We did very well, some great family and friends came out to join us. A HUGE thanks to Paige for helping Abbe and I with this party! We don’t have the official tally yet, but I believe we raised a little over $300 for LLS! This will be a nice dent towards our goal of $11,000!

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Halloween was awesome! The kids had a great time trick or treating, Chad and Meredith’s party was awesome as expected, and Abbe came home with a trophy for Best Adult Costume!

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