Healing Hunter Foundation: 2012

Year End Giving

The Healing Hunter Foundation
would be absolutely tickled

if you chose us as your charity
for your year end giving.

CHEERS and have the
HAPPIEST of HOLIDAYS ♥

The 2nd Annual Healing Hunter Foundation's Spectacular Winter Wonderland 2012

We had the honor, once again, to DECK the HALLS at

Doernbecher Children's Hospital

"Dr. Seuss" Style

and it looks absolutely SPECTACULAR!

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Lampert)

Katie Hensley

"We LOVE the Dr. Seuss Tree! All of your hard work

really shines here. Thank you. Jillie loves the posters and

ornaments as well! Our appreciation goes beyond words.

We will be enjoying it all through this holiday season.

It makes being away from home for Christmas just a little bit easier."

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Lampert)

Corrin Crone, Lenore Davis, (President of the Healing Hunter Foundation

and Hunter's Mom), Jen Arnold, (Founder of Tucker's Toybox), &

Priscilla Pacheco

iPod Birthday BASH 2012

The 2nd Annual Healing Hunter Foundation iPod Birthday Bash.

On September 21st of 2012, Hunter's Birthday,

we delivered an iPod Touch to every

child battling cancer at Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

The surprise iPod Touch delivery is a HUGE treat for all of those lil' warriors,
and we were definitely pretty successful in delivering smiles,
upon smiles, upon smiles.

Note to Hunter from Mom...

Oh my miraculous lil’ prince pie… we are delivering iPods to all of those amazing lil’ warriors up at doernbechers for your birthday today. I am pretty positive that you’ll be looking after them and keeping them safe and pleasantly entertained from this day forward. I’m sure you’ll deliver them smiles and giggles and stunning Hunter wiggles…especially on the days they need it most.

Make their hearts beat to the sound of your music. Make their feet tap to your groovy lil’ style. Fill their hearts and minds with your everlasting hope and strength…and don’t let any of them ever give up.

For me baby love, you are the sweet, sweet music that continuously plays in my soul,
and the harmonious tune that gracefully carries all my memories.
I truly thank my lucky stars every single day, and feel so completely
blessed that you were in our life. I stand taller because of you.
I have the inner strength of a thousand loving elephants because of you.
And I have the courage of an extremely proud mama lion, because of you.

Your birthday is a day of celebrating, and has become an
amazing day to share your love.
Your love for music, your love for others, and your love for life.

Continue to soar high my sweet cheeked, lil’ Angel and enjoy this day to the absolute fullest. And feel free to blow me some kisses from time to time when you are feeling the need to send down something sweet. My cheeks will be anxiously waiting…mom

2011

Hunter using his iPod about to go in for a Cat Scan.

Probably watching CARS.

Hunter and mom on one of the weekly clinic visits...

again, probably watching CARS.

We were NEVER without Lightning McQueen!

This lil' tool provides much needed entertainment that

takes the kids away from all of their procedures, X-rays,

blood transfusions, bone scans...the list goes on and on.

One of our super cool warriors that received an iPod Touch in 2011.

Paul Stanley from KISS was generous enough to donate one to the kids!

$100 Gift Card for a kiddo up at Doernbechers!

Every month we donate a $100 Visa Gift Card to Doernbecher Children's Hospital that is gifted to one of the families fighting childhood cancer. We'll be doing this every month for as long as we can!

If you'd like to sponsor one of the months, give us a ring-a-ling and we'll make it happen! (503-343-5512 or email ldthawley@gmail.com)

You can also CLICK on the magical yellow button to DONATE!

Hunter Zen Thawley rocks on!

Cheers!

EASTER Toy Drive - 2012

A wonderful success...smiles ABUNDANT...and joy and love were spread all around. The Healing Hunter Foundation delivered super cool Easter bundles to all of the children that were admitted in the Oncology Unit at Doernbecher Children's Hospital 2 days before Easter. The day was just absolutely lovely, the sun was shining, and we took the hundreds of toys and goodies that were donated and stuffed their bundles to the rim with absolute goodness...and boy were they happy to get them!

One of my FAVORITE lil' guys from that day that wanted to thank us for our sweet delivery. Oh my goodness he was so darn cute :)

I was told his whole face lit up when he opened up his Easter bundle and saw all of the amazing toys and goodies! Filled the lil' missing piece of my heart up with such love and amazingly, cool Hunter joy.

This truly was JUST a sliver of the toys that were donated. Team in Training SHOWERED us with huge sacks of toys 3 days in a row after that photo was taken. Plus more toys arrived through the mail and then we went on one more shopping spree! SO FUN and such a good feeling to race through Toys R Us with money to spend on all of these amazing lil' warriors :)

Of COURSE, Lightning was shining amongst the piles and piles of toys!

"Thank You for all the love you pour into this!!! Ryland woke up for a few minutes and was so excited to see the great gifts! The Awesome Lightning McQueen computer was a HIT!!!" Jennifer Lampert - :)

This is just (3) of the MANY wagon loads we brought into Doernbechers that day. We also filled the Toy Chest, took the wagon through Clinic and let more kids pick out toys and then filled the Toy Cart. Toys were EVERYWHERE!

Vice President of the Healing Hunter Foundation, Zen Todd, and Coach Karl of Team in Training filling the Toy Box!

And then of course, I wanted to fill the Toy Box. Oh so fun to play the Easter Bunny!

Thank you SO MUCH to all that participated and made this magical day happen.
The Easter Bunny couldn't be more proud!

A Note from Coach Karl of Team in Training:

Last Friday I had the privilege in joining Lenore, Zen, and Ryder in delivering all of the Easter love to all of the brave kiddos up at Doernbecher's Hospital. The TNT love towards the toy drive and the Easter Bunny I'm sure was enough to p*** off Santa and all of his elves. Not only was it a Good Friday, but an amazing one. Lenore and I started off by filling the toy room with three wagons worth of Easter goodie bags. While we went back to fill up the wagons and a huge plastic laundry tote full of, "extra" toys, the diligent volunteers were off and running delivering all of the Easter bags to all of the kids. I have to say, I was looking forward to seeing all of the kids as they received the bags, but at the same time I would have probably been a mess,(don't tell anyone, but sometimes I can get a bit emotional). Some of the extra toys were set aside for Easter bags for any incoming kids during the weekend, some were stuffed away in a nurses' meeting room, some were taken to the clinic, and then we topped off the toy box in the lobby. As I was following Lenore pulling her wagon of toys, a woman came out of one of the rooms and saw that I was carrying extra Healing Hunter bags. She asked me if I was the one that did all of this, (no Ferber I didn't take credit for it). I called for Lenore and she invited us into the room with her young grandson. I can't remember exactly what type of cancer he is fighting, but he is in stage 4 and his name is Mason. Mason is pictured with Lenore in the picture I posted on the Yahoo Group, on the Healing Hunter blog below, and all over Facebook.

One of my buddies once told me to always be grateful and everything else in life will take care of itself. Mason's Grandma was sooo happy to see us and very grateful for the gifts Mason received. She showed us his journey beads, his sticker calendar, and black and white pictures of all of her grandkids together dressed in old western, cowboy gear. Mason gratefully hugged his Easter goodie bag with the most amazing smile and as we said our good byes, he insisted to his Grandma that Lenore and I deserved presents as well. If you look closely in the pic, there is a red heart shaped box on Mason's tray. Mason reached into the box and handed both of us an eraser. My eraser has a smiley face and reads, "Great Effort". I don't know if I will ever see Mason again, but I will never forget that moment and I will be eternally grateful for that gift.