Run with the Big Dogs 5k

Our race was yesterday. It was a huge success, and a ton of fun. It made me proud of to be part of such a wonderful organization!

Please visit this website to see the professional pics of Jamie Rowe:

Big Dogs Huge Paws 5K - http://networkedblogs.com/6S1Mh

This would have never been possible without the following people who stepped up to the plate to "mini-chair" the following tasks:

Lisa Cecchini- Goodie Bags & being the lone volunteer to help Bri and unload the truck at storage at the end of the day.
Kristie Mendrella- BDHPI Merchandise
Gretchen Lavigne- Food & water donations
Tina Ward- Sponsor/Vendor, plus supplied the tables, pop up tents and chairs! PLUS walked the course with me on Friday!
Adrienne Burdette- Signage
Susan Nichols- Kiddie Pools
Suz Rafferty- Medical Tent
Kathie Ferguson- Photography
Liz Buckley- Foster Alley
Liz Dalzell- Music- You guys rocked it today!
Brian Dew- who drove a box truck, loaded & unloaded it 4 times, brought home 5 carts that saved our lives while set up/tear down, stayed up to midnight the night before listening to me stress out than woke up at 4:15 with me, and distributed water AND gave the Blessing of the Animals!!

Thanks to everyone who showed up to help! Set up, tear down, foster alley, BDHPI Mechandise booth. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! SERIOUSLY THE BEST!

Please forgive me if I forgot anyone:

Dews
Wards
Condons
Buckleys
Buoffords
Liz Dalzell
Lisa Lajimodiere
Nick Harris
Jonette Cate
Suz Rafferty
Steve Sutton
Kirstin Butler & Matt
Sandy Count
Lori Johnson
Kim Kalmar
Stephanie Owens
Patrick (new volunteer, sorry I didn't catch your last name)
Bubba Gump Employees

Thank you to the following Sponsors and we encourage you to plesae support their businsses:

Kevlar for K9
Furry Baby Fashions- Julie flew here from Raleigh, NC to be with us today!
Metrowest
The K9 Body shop
Pub on Penn- John & Shannon adopted Zach from BDHPI and would love for you to visit Pub on Penn for a cocktail, on Zach!
Mile High County Supply- Enter BDHPI and get $5 of your one line purchase, and 10% of all sales the rest of the year will go back to BDHPI!
The Good Family Dog
plus the 11 vendors we had!

So much shopping, great music, great food (Thanks Pub on Penn!!!)

There are still a few donations that have to come in but I think we will end up around $4000 and had about 50 more racers/walkers than last year...slowly but surely we will grow!