The RESULTS of the 2026 Independence Day parade!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s TIME to start the craziest, craftiest, fundraisiest half of the year – starting with a parade of epic proportions! The 2026 Fourth of July parade!! Each year we have participated in our city’s parade we have been able to pass out about 1,000 flyers telling our local community our story: about Damian, our ambition to treat his disease and save his life, and ask for help! Every year I have spent anywhere from 2 weeks to 1 month paper m

We had a lofty fundraising goal to reach in May! Here's all the stats for how we did!

Our 9-night run of Damian's Christmas Village has concluded and with that, 2025 is coming to a close! Our latest fundraiser event was SO magical! I didn't quite get everything built that I had planned on , but we definitely succeeded in "plussing it up" from last year's version and that was my main goal! This post contains affiliate links, meaning I may earn a commission if you click a link and then purchase something What was NEW this Year Peppermint Mickey Unfortunately las

I'm SO excited today (appropriately on Giving Tuesday) to announce my plans for our final fundraiser event for 2025! Last year was our first time doing Damian's Christmas Village and it was such a big push to get it done, but a BIG help this year has been the ability to build off of everything I made last year, rather than start completely from scratch. A lot of cleaning and touching up has been required so far, but everything is going up MUCH quicker! And just like our Hallo

Talk about SPOOKTACULAR!!! When I originally decided to set $15,000 as our October fundraising goal, I couldn't even say it out loud because I was nervous it was too lofty. And yet, here we are! Wow wow WOW! I cannot thank all of you enough for making this Halloween season our most successful one yet. I am SO excited to share all the results and stats with you, so let's get to it!! Upgrades to Damian's Not-So-Haunted House Oh my goodness, we almost looked like a full-blown

Our "0% Scary, 100% Halloween Fun" walkthrough experience has been a favorite project of mine ever since we first made it in 2023 - can...

The parade was a SUCCESS! As always, finishing up this year's parade float was a RACE to the finish! Even the paint was still wet (Brock...

Our biggest, most ambitious float yet!

Sing it with me now: “It’s gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna…. It’s gonna be MAY!” (I was an *N Sync girl growing up, not Backstreet Boys –...

Don't be alarmed, we're just already halfway through January... I always get so pumped up at the start of the year while making...

The results of our very first Christmas fundraising event!

Can we pull this off in a month? I think we can! I've been teasing this project for the past week or so, and it's finally time to share...

All the numbers from our latest crazy fundraiser!!!

Our BIG plans for enhancing our biggest fundraising event of the year!

Happy (belated) World Elephant Day! Brock texted that to me yesterday morning that he heard it announced on the radio or something......

Our best parade float ever!

We've participated in the Santa Clarita Valley's Independence Day Parade ever since Damian's diagnosis. In fact, when I decided I was...

We did it!!! Our first big in-person fundraiser of 2024 is officially complete - and it was a smashing success! Check out the full vlog...

We are just over a week away from our first big in-person fundraiser of 2024 and I'm pumped to get it going! So many of you have already...