WOW!!!! What a fabulous weekend in Memphis! We all made it, some in a little better shape than others, but the main thing is everyone who started, made it across the finish line. This has been such an incredible weekend, once again words can not describe it.

When my body and my brain catch up on a little rest, I have ALOT to tell you and give you some reports on but for now I did want to touch base on a couple of things..

First - ABC 24 News out of Memphis featured Team Ethan on their Marathon coverage. So we had the awesome experience of having a photojournalist following us at our planned events all weekend. His name is Ryan, and he was just awesome. I will say he added an extra bit of excitement and fun to our weekend. And the best part, he is now an official member of Team Ethan! He actually wore our team shirt and ran with some of our different team members carrying his camera on his shoulder, and he did it in record time! He put some of us to shame! LOL It really was alot of fun having him around. You can see the video clip that aired on ABC News on Saturday night in Memphis at ABC24.com just click on videos, then click on "Thousands run for St Jude"

Second - At this point our team has raised just over $14,500.00 for St Jude!! Donations are still coming in and I'd love to see us hit the $20,000.00 mark. So if you did not get to come and be a part of this awesome experience, I do ask if you can reach into the bottom of your pockets and make a donation to the team or one of the team members. Ben's page is www.stjudeheroes.org/users/benpowell and Becky's is www.stjudeheroes.org/users/ethansmom Or you can go to stjudeheroes.org and find our team and select any of the team members that you choose to donate to. It really does not matter, bottom line it all goes to St Jude.

As of Saturday morning, the entire marathon has raised around 1.8 million dollars. To put this huge amount of money into perspective.... it cost just under $1.4 million a day, yes... I did say EACH DAY to cover the operating cost for St Jude. So all of this fundraising and hard work for this big weekend only covers the cost for ONE DAY! I encourage you to look into the many ways you can help this wonderful hospital in your local area or just on your own. Keep in mind, St Jude never ever turns away a child for treatment because of the inability for a family to pay and no family has ever received a bill for anything from St Jude. They do take what your insurance pays if you have insurance. They operate totally on fundraising and donations from people like me and you doing what we can to support this wonderful hospital.

More info and stories from the weekend and also pictures will be posted later, but I did want to get out a little "teaser" for you. More to come....

Thank you to those of you who did make this trip. Leave some comments to let others know about your experience here. Start saving up pennies in a jar for next year to come back and bring a friend with you. It is just to much fun to miss out on!!!

It was great to see you all again, already missing each of you and looking forward to next year!

When you say "GO TEAM ETHAN" I can tell you... TEAM ETHAN WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE FINISH LINE!!!!!!!!

Thank you all again,

Mardecia and Allison