The American Diabetes Step Out Walk

This is a big week at our house. This Saturday will be the American Diabetes Step Out Walk. I have never had a more important or personal connection to any organization. My daughter was diagnosed on July 30th of this year. We are so proud of how well my little peanut has handled all of the life altering things that have bombarded her since her diagnosis. She was thrust into a very adult situation, and has been forced to forgo a lot of the spontaneity that goes along with being a child, and I am amazed everyday by her.


We created our team, The Peanut Gallery, to raise money and awareness for this nasty disease. In our first year, we raised over $5000, and I am blessed to have such amazing friends and family that contributed to that. Thank you everyone that did so! If you have been meaning to donate, please do so as quickly as possible, every little bit helps.

For those of you planning on attending this event, Here is the ADA Step Out Fact page with directions, instructions on where to park, what to bring, and a map: ADA Step Out Faq.

All photographers also need to check in at the Volunteer Check In tent to get your volunteer badges. As for the photography, the reason we have been invited is to be able to share our images with the ADA and the world in an effort to raise awareness. As such, I have set up a Flickr group so the staff members of the ADA can go in and look at these images. They are hoping to get images that can be used for news letters, email campaigns, event coverage, and on their website. That group is here: ADA Step Out Universal Studios

When you upload your images, please tag them the following way: "ADA Step Out Universal Studios" to make them searchable by the ADA staff. I will inform the ADA staff that if there are images they like, and would like to use, to leave a tag on the image so the photographer that took the image can send them whatever size image they are looking for.


The event staff are looking for images of the presenters, the staff, the participants of the event, basic coverage, and images of the sponsor and exhibitor booths and events.

Again, a BIG thank you goes out to all of you that helped us reach our goal. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.