Happy New Year – 2009!

Well we did it again! On Christmas Eve Mary, Timmy, Elaine and I served a nice steak, chicken and shrimp dinner to the families on the oncology unit at the new Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin. We served 21 families as well as the nursing staff (over 70 people). We had some great help from our friends to make this day a success. THANKS!!! I would also like to thank Robert, the manager at the Joe’s crab shack on 183, for supplying our holiday feast. So go to Joe’s Crab Shack and thank them for making this happen!

We also raised enough money through the Jennifer Wilks Foundation website to give each cancer patient and their siblings a stuffed stocking and $100 worth of presents. Before Christmas we had the parents fill out a form telling us what each child wanted/needed for Christmas and we went shopping. We helped 47 children!

Other great things in 2008 – granted Yazmin her Make A Wish and she went to New York with her family to go shopping and see the Rocketts.

Became the main sponsors for the Hungry Bunch group. The Hungry Bunch is the teenage group at the Dell Children’s Hospital. They do monthly activities outside the hospital and they have a big camping trip each year. Jennifer loved the Hungry Bunch and we are proud to help.

We are bringing meals to the cancer unit at the Dell Children’s Hospital on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Wednesday each month. I would like to thank Jason’s Deli, Bush’s Chicken and Bill Millers BBQ for helping us with the meals. This has turned into something special for Mary and me.

At the 3rd Annual Jennifer Wilks Golf Tournament in April we raised just over $32,000. We had over 140 golfers and this allowed us to give back to the charities that kept a smile on Jennifer’s face. We also donated to His Grace Foundation and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

2009 will be a great year for the Foundation. Mark your calendars for the Golf Tournament on April 24th. It’s getting BIG…we are going for 288 golfers this year! We will have 7:30am and 1:30pm tee times. Sign-ups will start in January.

I know that Jennifer is in heaven and looking down on each of us and smiling.

Thanks and God Bless,
Tim, Mary, Timmy and Elaine