Let's Go Golf!

Eric Schweitzer our Mended Hearts Vice President is doing his 11th annual golf tournament. Last year he gave the proceeds to Camp Taylor and this year proceeds will go to our own MLH of Central California.
The information is as follows:
Where: Sierra Meadows Golf Course
46512 Opha Drive
Oakhurst CA 93644
(559) 642-1340
When: May 17th, 2008
10:30 am check in
11:30 am Lunch
2:00 pm Shotgun start

Fee: $100.00 per person
Includes Golf Cart, Golf and lunch

Directions: Fresno North to Oakhurst. Left on Hwy 49
Proceed about 2 miles to Harmony Lane
Right turn and follow signage to Golf Course.

Any questions can be answered by Eric at 683-4942 or cell 760-4212

This is a four man scramble form your teams now!

This may be a great opportunity to get our Dads involved! If there is any interest it will help benefit our group. So, go and get those teams put together and give Eric a call to sign up!!

April Meeting!

Our next meeting is right around the corner!
Date: April 12th, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Faith Community Church of the Nazarene 430 Peach Ave. Clovis, CA
Topic: Our speaker, Susie Astiasuain, is going to share her experiences being a heart mom for a little over twenty years. Susie is also going to share her knowledge of educational services that some heart kids qualify for. Susie works for an early intervention program in Reedley and has also gone through the whole school process with her son. She will go over some terms such as IEP, 504 plan and early intervention. This will be an informative meeting for everyone.

Mended Little Hearts Bumper Magnets

The Bumper Magnets are in!!! These are great magnets that stick right on to metal parts of your car. What a better way to raise awareness than driving around town.
They cost $5 at a meeting or $5.50 to be shipped. I will bring them to our next meeting in April or you can email me at mom2macandzach@sbcglobal.net if you would like to have an order shipped to you.

February 2008 Meeting

When: February 9th, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Faith Community Church of the Nazarene 430 Peach Ave. Clovis CA

The Details: Dr. Malcolm MacDonald, pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon at CHCC, has graciously agreed to come and speak. He would like to have an open dialog, so come prepared with questions! He is on call that day, so I'm sure we will all understand if he gets called in to work and cannot make it. In that case we will go ahead with our CHD Day party and try and reschedule for another time. We will have a dessert potluck and socializing for the adults and the kids will play games, do crafts and help paint a canvas to be auctioned off at the Camp Taylor fundraiser dinner.
We hope to see everyone there.
If you have any questions feel free to email me, leave a comment or call.

CHD Awareness Week

As most of you know February 7th - 14th is designated CHD Awareness week. To help spread awareness Mended Little Hearts national office has sent our group some awareness materials. I wanted to let you all know about these materials in case you wanted to help spread awareness about CHD next month. We have most of the materials needed to have a successful CHD Awareness week / and or month! We have:
CHD Awareness brochures - if you know of a person or company that would be willing to help print these in color it would be extremely helpful!
sample proclomation letters
news release to send to newspapers / news stations
letter to the editor
sample public service announcement
and Mended Little Hearts fact sheets
So, if you'd like to help us spread the word about CHD either email me at mom2macandzach@sbcglobal.net or leave a comment.
Anything and everything you can do is greatly appreciated!

New Awareness Video

Here is an awareness video that I recently made. My husband wrote the song for Makenna and we decided to make a video out of it. I hope you enjoy it!

CHD Awareness Day 2008

CHD Day 2007:

The kiddo CHD'ers (and a few siblings) with the Adult CHD'ers
Getting ready for the balloon release
If you live in Central CA, what would you like to do for this years CHD Day? We are taking suggestions on what other heart families would like to do. Last year we had the Adult Congenital Heart Association come and speak and we had a little party and balloon release. Would you like to do something similar this year. Would you like a speaker, if so who? Would you like to do a party at the church? Would you like to meet somewhere fun, if so where? This is your group and we would love to have your input. Please leave a comment and let us know how you'd like to spend this CHD Day :-)