Todd ~ A Man of Many Causes

Somehow, my self employed husband and father of 3 has become involved in some fundraising and cause educating events in and around town.  It started with the Turkey Trot and now we have added the Folsom Firecracker Fourth of July Run to the plate.  He has been hard at work the last few months putting together this event and working on choosing beneficiaries to support. Early on in the planning we decided it would be best to choose at least one organization that served the impoverished outside of the United States and chose to be advocates for the ONE Campaign.  They are an advocacy organization committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease particularly in Africa. Our local campaign for awareness began last week as we celebrated a new bridge opening here in town. Our kids were dawned with stickers and bracelets to pass out as we walked over a mile across the new bridge from our neighborhood. We passed out a lot of material about ONE and the upcoming race.  It was fun to watch our kids try to explain it to other kids. Daegan was concerned about the fact that these kids don't have clean water to drink.  He is a mass consumer of water and really saw this as a problem.  So cute! Our efforts were mentioned on the blog at ONE.org.

Love the bracelets up the arms!

Apparently one cause in a week is not enough for him.  The day before or I should say for weeks before he planned the Fox Trot, a Folsom Hills School fundraiser.  He actually held a preliminary race in February and then set a school goal and had the kids train for 6 weeks to improve the number of laps run.

Noah and his friends having a post race popsicle.

Noah finishing up.  Of course Daegan is just behind him having illegally jumped into the race. 

Emma and her friend Siena

Todd running the music and the microphone acting like he has all the time in the world for this. The students actaully surpassed the 720 mile goal for the school by running an extra 5 for a total of 725 miles.  Noah's first grade class won a pizza party for the most laps per student.  I am so glad my kids have a dad who is involved in their day to day stuff.  It is really stressful to have so much going on sometimes, but he really almost never misses a thing.