The Marcottes

st. baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family.

at a st. baldrick’s event, something amazing happens. people who normally shy away from the very thought of childhood cancer find themselves compelled to support this cause after looking into the face of these brave children who are smiling broadly as their friends and family members proudly display their newly shorn heads.

volunteers and donors see it can be fun to support a serious cause. young cancer patients and survivors see how many people care. and researchers see st. baldrick’s funds helping to find cures!

last year, john raised over $2000 for childrens’ cancer research. at the event, the emcee asked the audience how much they would pay to see john shave one of his eyebrows off; to which he responded “it better be a lot of money and i’m shaving both!” i can’t remember the exact dollar amount, but i think he raised almost another $500 cash at the event by shaving both eyebrows and his goatee. i couldn’t get over the number of kids participating in this event in honor of a friend or relative that was battling cancer. it really warms your heart to see so many kids there for such a great cause.

this is a very fun event! john is participating again this year at uc davis cancer center on march 12th. i’m here to solicit your help with anything you can give. times are tough, i know. the one thing i keep telling myself whenever i get down about the economy is that at least my family is healthy. not everyone can say that.

if you would like to donate, please go to john’s page and follow the links.

here are some photos from last year’s event:

Ziyahn Sunrise Joy Townsend

Born December 28, 2008 at 7:46 am

7.6 lbs/20 in.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything on The Marcotte’s page. I figured it was time. So, here are some photos from Halloween - including pumpkin patch and cookie making. Enjoy!

Stella had a great birthday! Thanks to everyone who came to help us celebrate!

This is pretty cute - so I thought I’d share it. Make sure your volume is turned up.

Maureen meets Mr. T.

John oozes jealousy.

I’m bald.

Thank you to everyone for your generous donations to such a great cause. I even raised an additional $156 at the event for shaving my goatee and eye brows.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any photos of Anya and Stella. They’ve both changed so much, and I can’t believe Stella is 6 months old. She’s sitting up, playing with toys, talks and jabbers a ton, and grabs for John’s keyboard when he sits at the computer with her in his lap.

Here are a few photos from the past couple months.

Enjoy!

Well, now that I’m finally feeling better, I can get us all caught up on 2 weeks worth of the Biggest Marcotte Loser. Hopefully you are all still cheering us on. We need all the support we can get! So, without further ado, here are the stats for the last 2 weeks:

If I’ve done my math correctly, that makes a grand total of 73 lbs. lost in just 6 weeks!

Keep up the great work everyone!

Sorry it took me so long to get the update for you all. I’ve been sick as a dog the past week. Including all of us passing pink eye around to each other. So, it was not a great week for all of us - but I’m sure we will have better results coming up! **Note: Mary has opted to continue on with us after Leon goes back home. So we’ll put her back in the challenge next week.

Total loss for week 4 was 3.5 lbs. I am sure I will have a better week next week when I’m not coughing so much and can actually start working out again.
Let’s all get back on track and stay focused - WE CAN DO IT!!!