ok.
i wanted to take this opportunity to mention a couple of upcoming events…
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“Strolling Through the Garden of Awesome”
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Walk begins at 10:00 am
Thomas Beach – Lake Calhoun – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Can’t make it to the MN but still want to raise money for the Liz Logelin Foundation 5k? No problem! Just download a registration and donation form and start fundraising! And if you get your forms in by September 4th, 2009, you’ll still get your t-shirt in time for the walk! (For international participants, please email Becky for t-shirt shipping details.)
Important Documents
What’s that? You want to plan a walk in your own city and take pictures to send to the Flickr group? No problem! In addition to following the above steps to find registration and donation forms, why not make the lawyers happy and visit the Third Party Event Guidelines? Please print, read through and sign this form and return it to the listed address, and you’re set to plan your own walk! Visit The Liz Logelin Foundation page on Facebook to organize your own walk and find others in your area.
Registration sheets are due on September 4th, 2009 to ensure you get your t-shirt.
*All proceeds go directly to the Liz Logelin Foundation*
Kids’ shirts will be available to purchase as well – details coming soon!
Questions about the 5K?
Please contact Becky Peterson at 5k@thelizlogelinfoundation.org
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“A Night to Remember”
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Calhoun Beach Club – Minneapolis, MN
Doors Open at 6:00 pm
Silent Auction 6:30-8:30 pm
Live Auction 8:30 pm
Dress code: Semi-Formal
(that part was against my wishes…wonder if they’ll let me in if i should up in my uniform?)
After running, walking, or crawling around Lake Calhoun for the Liz Logelin Foundation 5k, leave the kids at home and join us for A Night to Remember. Enjoy hors d’ouevers, drinks and desserts while you bid on fabulous silent auction items. Evening highlights include Matt’s fortune-telling Robot, an amazing live auction and much more. Whether you’re bidding on a Wienermobile pedal car, Robot Chicken DVDs autographed by Seth Green, Grandpa Tom L’s handyman services, a romantic getaway and lots more, you’ll be helping us help others.
Can’t make it to the MN? Don’t worry! Invite friends and family over and host your own Night to Remember while browsing through our Online Auction. *details to follow*
Interested in making a donation for the silent, live, or online auctions? (we’ll take nearly anything! seriously…get creative. i’m auctioning my dad off to do some work around your house!) Please download the Auction Donation Form or contact auction@thelizlogelinfoundation.org for more information.
Tickets:
*Gala tickets are limited to guests 18 and over*
*Booze is limited to guests 21 and over*
$50 by check
$53 by credit card (includes processing fee)
To purchase tickets by mail please fill out the Gala Ticket Order Form and mail your check to the address provided.
To purchase your tickets online via credit card please select the number of tickets, and click donate to be taken to Paypal for payment. No paypal account is needed.
*All proceeds go directly to the Liz Logelin Foundation*
Questions? Please contact rachel@thelizlogelinfoundation.org
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thanks to everyone who helped get us here…can’t wait for september…
matt
(logo design by teal, t-shirt design by sara @ lost bird found)
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YAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Dear Lord – Please let me win the Handy Man Grandpa Tom Service. Just last night the 2 year old ripped the curtain, and curtain rod, out of the wall in his room…anchors and all. I could use some handy help!
Can’t wait – this is going to be AMAZING!
Word
Yeah Baby – Did I get firsties?
KATE!!
WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
It’s about time
I GOT FIRSTIES! I GOT FIRSTIES!
Oh, rapture! Now my frown is turned upside-down.
question: where did “the garden of awesome” come from? can’t make it to the MN from NYC but totally going to fundraise for you, maddy and liz.
So awesome!!! This is GREAT news, what you are doing is fantastic.
P.S. just want to make sure you know that the shirt says “the” twice…. Strolling through the the garden of awesome…
dammit Kate. Is this thing rigged?
“Strolling Through the Garden of Awesome”… Brilliant!
Seriously! Every time you have an event of some sort in Minnesota, I’m not there!!! And I’m here 99.9% of the time!
Anything Planed for the los angeles area, would luv to participate
Love that…the Garden of Awesome!!!
Oh poop!!! I’ve been looking forward to joining you at Lake Calhoun for the last few months but we’re going to be gone! I wanted to bring Vico for a reunion with Madeline. I’ll see if Bob will be able to bring him!
You getting the robot a plane ticket or you tranq’ing him and putting him under the plane? I wonder what TSA’s procedure is for flying with a robot?
@Caitlin
ha!
thanks…for the eagle eye.
fixed…
Can I just register for the race to get the tshirt? I live in NYC, so won’t be able to make it for the race…if anyone is running in Central Park again, I’m there!
@Joelle in the Chicago no more – in the NYC
of course! folks will be organizing runs around the world, just as they did last year.
Can’t help but think that Liz must have been an amazing women to have inspired such efforts. Best of luck.
Matt,
i already have friends here in Houston that will be walking with me! I am so excited!
If anyone needs info about walking in any city, they can check out the Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=40790497893
Who do we contact to see if someone is already organizing an event in our neck of the woods?
the handyman services are available even abroad?!
Yay!
The Foundation’s page on Facebook has links for everyone outside of the MN – visit the page to find others in your area!
Anyone can register and get a shirt – just fill out the form and send it in by September 4th!
More questions? Email 5k@thelizlogelinfoundation.org
I hope to make it. I think my one year old Carter would get along well with Maddie.
awesome! Wish I could be there! Good Luck with all the fundraising!!!!
This is so freaking awesome!! I am going to register and see if anyone in Philly will walk/run with me! New in town, so if anyone is interested email me @ Sabrina7408@gmail.com and we can start it up
I also posted something on the Liz Logelin foundation on facebook, so you can find me there too!
Done and Done. Can’t wait!
I really, really, really wish I could be there. Damn it. So far away. Do you have the t-shirt in Benjamin’s size too?
Absolutley wonderful! I hope I can participate in the Houston activities. Who would have thought just over a year ago no one knew you, Liz or madeline. Such blessings for what I know was a wonderful woman, we should all hope for such a legacy.
I’ve never before wished to live in Minnesota.
I think you’re doing an awesome job Matt and I’m astounded by your resiliance to turn this into such a good cause. I wonder if your dad speaks enough Dutch to come help out around our house
Hope you raise tons!
It’s really kick ass how much forward positive motion you engage in.
On my website I talk about searching for Single Dads doing the right thing. Joining with other single dads making a difference. You are a shining example
Hi matt! I already have the forms from the fan site on facebook. I’m going to be donating several Items! A couple really nice baby quilts also. Here’s my site for everyone to preview my work!
http://www.babylovedesigns.weebly.com
A little off topic , but I saw a picture of Judd Apatow , and I must say there is a striking resemblance . PS: Going to register and get out there and run here in Jacksonville , FL !!!
well since i LIVE in the mn, i can probably be there. will YOU be there, matt?
I’m sure it will be event overflowing with awesomeness and good times. Good luck and have fun!
Ok, first of all, Darcie & Kate competing for firsties just cracked me up!!!
I love that you’ve got the Sunday event planned as well as the walk on Saturday! Saturday is out for me, but I need to see if I, the introvert that I am, can work up to going on Sunday.
Are there any more MN followers who need a friend to go to the Sunday event with? if so, please email me at jilleneab at hotmail.com Maybe we could get a group of followers together to attend??
What a great thing you are doing.
I’m in CO (south of Denver) if anyone is down.
What a beautiful way to honor your wife’s memory…you have done so much in such a short amount of time. Congratulations. I will be walking with you (with little Miss Clare in a stroller!) in spirit from CT…good luck.
Can’t wait ot buy shirts for my family and walk for Liz–in Philly
You’re going to auction off The Fortune-Telling Robot? NO WAY. I may have to get some friends to go in on that with me. That’s awesome.
I’m going to try to make it! Not to far from me! Woohoo! I love Lake Calhoun too!
@ Angela in St. Paul
no! i can’t do that…he’s just going to make an appearance and read your fortune.
in hindi of kannada.
unless i can get a translation…
Awesome! I will certainly look for people in my area! I just wish I could get my fortune read by the robot. I actually was afraid the first time I read your post that you were auctioning him, Matt!
Wishing you huge success!
M&M,
This will truly be an amazing weekend you have planned. I live north of the cities, Cambridge, and have never been to Calhoun. We usually head north to ya know places like “Meat on Mille Lacs” and Paul Bunyan land and such. This will be a true experience for us! So looking forward to this event and will start fund raising this week. Thanks matt for this awseomeness you are doing…..
WOW!! What amazing things you are doing!!!
I want to do something!!! If I’m on the east coast, can I put the stuff up on my blog?? I’m REALLY “fundraising” illiterate — But I can learn!!
See that MN after my name? It means I’ll be dragging my 3 sons out for a 5K in September so the robot might want to make an appearance at the walk as well.
I am planning on participating in strolling through the garden of awesome, along with my 2 year old daughter, Adeline. I’ve already put something on my Facebook page to start trying to raise money for it.
My husband is a photojournalist and will be donating his time for a photo shoot for the auction. If you’d like to check out his work, you can do so at http://www.andyblenkushphoto.com.
I’m still trying to figure out what I can donate. Any suggestions? I usually make and donate jewelry to fundraisers, but I just won’t have the time to do that for this. (I’m a SAHM and student.) Do you think offering services like cleaning someone’s house would work? I need ideas!
I am a big fan of your blog and can’t wait for your book! I don’t usually leave comments but…
I found out about this book through a friend and instantly thought of you! How great is this?!
http://www.amazon.com/Crobots-20-Amigurumi-Robots-Make/dp/0740778277
I can’t come to the walk, but I’ll donate $$ to the foundation…..but only if you trim your beard ; ) Seriously.
Yippee!!!! my fam and i missed last year…we’re planning on making it this year. evan really, really wants to see maddy
Matt, thanks for the clarification! I’m a bit relieved, honestly, that you’re keeping the robot. I thought maybe you just were going to go for major $$$ for the foundation.
I will be in attendance.
However, count this as my official vote for the gala theme to be changed to the “Enchantment Under the Sea Dance” ala Back to the Future II.
I LOVE that you called alcohol ‘booze’ it’s such a minnesota thing! I grew up in Minneapolis & now live in Spokane WA, and I get mocked ruthlessly when I say ‘booze’…the jerks
kidding…
Sad to miss the event, I was just in MN 2 weeks ago. So great that you’re doing it though.
Now where’s my booze?
I enjoy reading the comments about nearly as much as I enjoy the pictures and your own posts Matt! Most responses are so incredible, so spot-on and so, so, real. I started crying the other day when I read for the 100th time someone wishing they could give Liz back to you. And even today, the joy, the excitement over the 5K and the silent auction. This is what the foundation is all about, For the Love of Liz- what we can do along with crying over what we can’t.
duh, I will be in India during that time. I am visiting India after 4 years else would have been a happy translator.
Matt,
Just a thought, today I set up some auctions on Ebay and they allow you to link your sales to donate to a non profit charity. I tried to do For the Love of Liz, but it’s not one of their listed charities. Might be something to look into getting set up…..
this might be a repeat comment here… cause I am thinking i screwed up my last-
I was just saying..
if any dvd’s or *anything* Seth Green signed or related made it’s happy little way to the online auction..
you would be making the eldest HF spawn a very happy wee teen aged girl.
and I mentioned my shear delight that my girl passes on the Jonas brothers and all the Efron stylin’ modern day clones for her desires..
she is a HUGE Seth Green fan.
best of Luck Matt…..I am looking around for auction items..
and i Hope we can walk again here….
off topic but I was just wondering what the name of your favorite lullaby cd is…you wrote about it once and i wouls love to check it out!
Connie
Just wanted to say how sorry I am about your wife.I truly admire you for what you are doing for your daughter, so that when she is older she will at least have memories of her mom. Keep up the great work , and God Bless you!
hello matt
im ashley from canada bc and im 12 years old
a heard ur nightmare about liz and madi
ur story touch my heart and i never thought this will ever happen.my mom gave birth to a littel girl.and when my older sis and ill come home my dad will take us to the hospitel.and one day the nures from my momz room gave my dad a bad news.and we went to the hospitel and me and my sis did have
no idea wat happened.after the doc told us that my mom had
internal bleeding . we had to say up to 12:00 in school nights
taking care.my mom survived.but really madi has a wonderful
father and i hope ur life will turn out great with madi
all the wishes
from ashley * *
u
Hi Matt!
I just sent an email regarding donating something for the auction. Hope to hear back from someone soon.
you’re selling your robot?!
Matt- will you be at either event?
@melissa
i will be at both events…can’t wait.
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