Nitalia Conti :: A Place For Love

A WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR

Daddy — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:48:34 +0000

Hi My Love,
It’s been a whole entire year! A WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR!!! we can’t believe it…we live it every day and WE CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!! January 28th…a year ago You went to live ETERNITY with the LORD. How we MISS You, how we LOVE You, how we want to KISS You and HUG You. We want to HEAR You and SEE You…Your EYES, Your SMILE, Your LAUGH, Your LOVE, Your SWEETNESS, Your VOICE, Your SILLINESS, Your KINDNESS, Your FAITH, Your COURAGE, Your STRENGTH, Your WISDOM, YOU… EVERY SINGLE PART…ALL OF YOU!!! There are no words to describe how much we LOVE YOU and MISS YOU…no words of how we can’t see You. Yet we see You…we see You in >EVERYTHING…EVERYTHING Pure Love, EVERYTHING Beautiful, EVERYTHING Kind, EVERYTHING Happy, EVERYTHING Rainbow, EVERYTHING Courageous, EVERY Purple Sunset, EVERY Part of Your Sisters, EVERYTHING Amazing, EVERY Child Fighting Cancer, EVERY Person that Loves You, Every One in Your Class, EVERY Rainbow Parrot, EVERY Butterfly, EVERYTHING Purple…EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL OF THE TIME!!! And THANK GOD You are EVERYWHERE with ALL of Your Glorious Signs. That’s how much HE LOVES YOU!!! Our hearts ache and our eyes fill with tears because we love and miss You soooo!

So of course we were having a Celebration of Your Life on January 28th, like we always do every 28th of the month! But this was Your One Year Anniversary… so we sent out the text blast like I do every month to everyone on the list, no one needs a text to come… it’s an open door. As we were getting closer to the 28th, it was so beautiful how everyone remembered it was Your Year Anniversary, EVERYONE! It brought tears to our eyes, and still does, how no one needed a reminder, no one needed a text, or a call, or a note, EVERYONE remembered from all over. We received cards, texts, emails, flowers, treats, so many beautiful words, calls, hugs, so many loving messages and things all in Honor of You and Your Beautiful Life from people we love, to people we just met, to people we have never met, it was truly AMAZING!!! People still come up to us and hug us and say “I thought of Nitalia and your family on January 28th, we talk to her everyday and she and your family are in our prayers everyday“, people we haven’t seen in so long, it amazes me how You still continue to love and inspire and how much everyone Loves You and remembers everything, I can’t thank God enough!

Over 100 people came on January 28th! Our house inside and out, front and back, was FULL of so much LOVE FOR YOU!!! And I THANK YOU LORD for LOVING My Nitalia and for bringing all of these loving hearts in our lives loving Her. We all headed to Your Garden, a line of cars packed with people emptied out in the parking lot at Your Garden. We ALL joined hands and said the Prayer as the Lovebugs and purple balloons were flying high. Then Aviona and Isabella opened the box of 24 painted lady butterflies and they fluttered on everyone there, honoring Your Beautiful Life, eventually taking off into the heavens. After watching the butterflies we lit Your purple lanterns in the beautiful purple sunset watching them burn so bright in the dark purple sky! They flew so far out, some people said they saw them flying over their homes! We then headed back to our house for dessert and more celebrating You! The Junior Purple Society-Chaparral Chapter gave us a package and they couldn’t wait for us to open it. They said we have to open and watch it all together. So we did, and WOW, the most beautiful, touching, loving video was made by them all about You and how You inspire them. Nina came up with this amazing idea and they all wanted to be a part of it! As we all watched it, we all cried, even the kids that were a part of it cried, there wasn’t a dry eye! They even made us a purple book of the cards that are in the video. SOOOOO much LOVE, SOOOOO AMAZING, SOOOOO THANKFUL! I love how they get what you are all about, how they understand your adoring heart, your thoughtful mind and what is behind your beautiful, courageous, loving smile and wisdom filled eyes…how they all want to be a part of You and Your dream…Your legacy!

It was a beautiful Celebration of Your Beautiful Life, full of so much Love! Thank God! The next day we were in the front courtyard of the house and a painted lady butterfly was fluttering all around the purple flowers in the garden, hmmmmmmm wonder who that was! You AMAZE us every second of every day with ALL of your Glorious Signs that God allows you to show us!
A whole entire year and we LOVE You and MISS You even more…more than words can say!!!
-LOVING YOU FOREVER AND EVER,
Mommy XOXOXOXOXO
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Nitalia’s Movie

Daddy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:34:55 +0000

The Junior Purple Society at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale Arizona made this movie for our family. I wanted to share it with the world because it really shows what the huge impact Nitalia had and continues to have on the world. We cried our eyes out when they gave this to us on Jan 28th, The one year anniversary of Nitalia going to heaven. We miss her so much, but continue to push on to make her dream a reality. Nitalia loved everyone, even when it was not popular to do so. She always saw the person for who they are and who they could be. Her dream continues on in each and every one of the kids in this video. We are so proud of them, they are so driven to change the world! I know Nitalia is right there with them! There are kids and teachers from Chaparral, Cocopah, Sequoya, and Xavier schools in the video. We LOVE all of you that had a hand in making this happen! A Special thank you to Nina Kravetz who was the loving brains behind this video and Alexa Ehrenfreund for her great production work! I know Nitalia is LOVING this!!! They gave our family all of the index cards with their words on them…we will cherish them always.
We LOVE you all!
Go ahead and join them…spread the love!

*We LOVE YOU Junior Purple!!!!!

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The 2011 Nitalia’s Blanket’s Delivery!

Daddy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:08:26 +0000

This was an incredible year for Nitalia’s Blankets and The Purple Society. As many of you know, this was the first time that the blankets were delivered without Nitalia being right there to hand them out…well let me tell you, she showed herself at EVERY delivery!!! Purple was popping up EVERYWHERE during the deliveries! Purple balloons, kids dressed in Purple, Purple parking lots, and so much more! We are so happy to know that Nitalia was there with us and all of the kids. This year was our best year EVER! We delivered WAY OVER 1000 blankets, booties, hats, scarves, socks, and pillows to oncology children all over the country! We can’t thank you enough for the volunteers that gave time, money, blankets, scarves and so much more for this years delivery. You have all given love, smiles and warmth to children that need it most. We have been blessed to have you all in our lives and our foundation!

OUR GOAL FOR 2012 IS 1500 PURPLE PACKAGES FOR CHILDREN ALL OVER THE US!!!! LETS GET STARTED TODAY CREATING, MAKING AND COLLECTING BLANKETS, HATS, BOOTIES, SCARVES, AND SOCKS!!!

You can send blankets to: The Purple Society 6104 E. Clinton St., Scottsdale, Arizona 85254.
REMEMBER: Blankets must be NEW. They can be hand made or store bought. Please only give NEW SOFT blankets. The children that are going through active cancer treatments have low immunine systems and sensitive skin.

All Our Love,

The Conti’s

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5 Contis Forever

Daddy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:26:35 +0000

My Lovebug,
Merry Christmas my Love and Happy New Year! Celebrating with Jesus for His birthday must have been beyond words spectacular! You miraculously showed us you were with us for this very painfully difficult first Christmas! As we packed for our trip to Hidden Meadow Ranch in the White Mountains it was extremely hard. But on Christmas Eve morning we got the picture of you (like we always do when we go anywhere) loaded up the car until it was busting at the seems, Myrtle and Mabel climbed in and we were off… It was a beautiful loooong ride to get up there. The higher we went the more snow we saw, the taller the trees got, and the bigger the mountains were! Your sisters were so excited and we felt you everywhere! Finally after 5 1/2 hours we arrive (after taking the wrong entrance…the summer entrance that was snowed in, we eventually had to go around the mountains for an extra hour). But we were there and when I say we I mean you too! We were in the middle of absolute beauty…snow, mountains, huge pine and aspen trees, horses… all in the middle of absolute NOWHERE, what a great place to be! We get out of the car and met Jane and Matt who told us all about the ranch, the fun activities, and gave us our key and drove us to cabin #5…(of course #5 because its a very special number to us. 5, the amount of people in our family, and we are and always will be, Conti Family of 5! We get to our perfect little cabin and Matt brings us in and there is the most beautiful live little Christmas tree all decorated for us. First thing I do is put your picture at the top of the tree, the perfect place for our amazing angel. We then head to dinner at the Ranch House where we get the most delicious humongous meals made by amazing Chef Kurt! We were greeted by all of these smiles, we sit at our table in front of I think the biggest live Christmas tree I’ve ever seen indoors, and with tears (because I miss you) I look up and there is this white fluffy feather gracefully falling from absolutely nowhere, right next to me and Isabella. I said does anybody see that, and with big eyes Bella says “yep, that white fluffy feather” and I said yes, how is that possible, but before I could take a breath, I said I know how, it’s from Nitalia’s angel wings! As we sat enjoying our scrumptious dinner, a bunch of people stood in front of the huge Christmas tree and said “It is our tradition here at Hidden Meadow Ranch to read Twas the Night Before Christmas”. I then looked at your sisters and daddy with tears again and said ohhh my goodness, (that is our tradition, every single Christmas Eve to read Twas the Night Before Christmas together) even when you were in the hospital we read it, but this year I didn’t even think of it because my heart is so heavy, but I didn’t have to because I know you did! As I couldn’t hold back my tears we listened and watched and it was so amazing, you were there in every single way! Even Santa was there with his sack of gifts, he called all the children by name and the first one on the list was Aviona! We then headed back to our cabin and we were greeted with stockings on our porch stuffed with goodies for us. We started the fire watched a movie and then headed to bed for Santa to come!

The next morning we wake up to our white Christmas and with heavy hearts we all wish each other a Merry Christmas, of course including you as you are included in everything we do…5 forever! Your sisters open the gifts and then we head off to The Ranch House for breakfast, as you are deep on our minds and in our hearts. We walk in and we are greeted with this beautiful girl with big brown eyes and brown hair. She said, “Merry Christmas, how are all of you doing?” We wished her a Merry Christmas and she brought us to our table. We sit and with tearful eyes I ask you where you are and how are you loving Christmas morning in heaven with Jesus. The beautiful girl comes back to our table, starts talking with us, and she has an accent, daddy said to her “where are you from, Germany?” she said “no, I am from Costa Rica, just my name is Russian”, (I immediately thought Nitalia would love to go to Costa Rica). Daddy says to her “oh, what’s your name?” and the beautiful girl says my name is NATALIA!!!! I gasped and began to cry, I couldn’t talk. She gave a concerned warm smile and through daddy’s tears he said that’s our oldest daughter’s name, he started to tell her all about you, her eyes filled with tears. Then your sisters, daddy, Natalia, and I were all choked up! We couldn’t believe that it’s Christmas morning in the middle of nowhere, only 20 people work at this ranch, and the first person we see at Christmas breakfast is a beautiful girl and her name is your name. I showed her your picture and told her your name is spelled with an “i”. She told us how sorry she was then she said, “do you want to hear something pretty incredible, this is the first time I’ve ever worked the morning, I only work the evening.” She also said I have never met anyone with the name Nitalia, neither have we! SO AMAZING! SO BEYOND INCREDIBLE! You definitely answered my question as to where you are…right with us…5 forever, of course! Eventually the amazing chef came out and introduced himself. He said my name is Kurt, I hear you’ve met my daughter. We said oh, who is your daughter, he then said Natalia.” Here comes the tears again. We gave them both your Nitalia purple bracelet, and they both said how honored they were to wear it with tears, and how they were going to read all about you on your website, and how it was meant for us all to meet! It was an AMAZING Christmas morning, thank you my love, thank you for always being with us and making sure without a doubt we see you!!!

We then headed out for our horseback ride. We met our wrangler, Suze, she took us on this beautiful ride in the snow through the forest on the mountains, it was called The Knoll. As we were climbing the mountains on horseback while the horses’ hooves were crunching in the snow, we started to all talk about you to Suze. She wanted to hear all about you. As we were deep in conversation, this huge fluffy bird flew over us and just sat in the tree looking at us, it was gigantic! We didn’t know if it was a hawk, owl, or an eagle but we watched it in amazement, it was so beautiful, knowing it was another sign of you! As the days went on, we did so many wonderful things together, and you brightly shined through with all of your glorious signs! Your sisters couldn’t wait to make a snowman. So we picked the perfect place right in front of the Huge Ranch House to welcome everyone that comes to Hidden Meadow Ranch and we made our snowman, we felt you with us. We took pictures of the snowman with your sisters. Not realizing In the pictures you can see your beautiful purpliciousness in every direction over the snowman and your sisters, it’s beyond awesome, it looks like a purple angel with purple fairy dust is floating over top, and we know it’s you! When we were sledding in the middle of nowhere, climbing the hill like mountain goats, I took a picture of your sisters and daddy, and in the picture is that same beautiful purple that was over your sisters and the snowman, now it was on daddy’s shoulder, the way you would always take a picture with your dad, hanging over his shoulder! You continue to amaze us Nitalia and we thank you and we love you!

On New Years Eve, we sat down for dinner, and yes Natalia was serving us that night…of course! As I sat with a very tearful heart missing you, I said to daddy and your sisters get together, I’m taking a picture…I took the picture, then looked at it. In the picture right next to Isabella’s head, it looks like the shadow of your head. I was beyond blown away but I didn’t say anything to anyone, yet asked what they saw in the picture, they all said, I see Nitalia next to Isabella! Again another amazing sign from you, so beyond words! We rang in the new year with everyone at the ranch. We said our goodbyes to Natalia because she doesn’t work the mornings only the evenings and we were leaving for home right after lunch on New Years Day. The next morning we got up stuffed the car to capacity with all of the fun things we made while we were there, brought Myrtle and Mabel to the dog run and proceeded to the Ranch House for our last gourmet lunch from Chef Kurt. We walked through the door, and who is the first person to greet us, Natalia…of course! We said I thought you weren’t going to be here today, she said they called me in…I then said well, we all know who really called you in, smiled with tears in my eyes, as she did the same! After our delicious lunch we all said our warm goodbyes with hugs, we headed outside the Ranch House for the car, and right outside the door was a shiny purple streamer sitting on the white snow! As we were leaving nowhere land, in the middle of the National Forest, we all looked and there was this big beautiful hawk just sitting very low watching us, we know it was another sign of you! After our long ride home, went to your garden, got a pizza, then finally I was going to get into my pj’s. As I was taking off my snow boots, stuck on my boot was a purple feather! Needless to say, I had tears!
Thank you my Lovebug! Thank you for loving us and never leaving us! Thank you for loving God so much that He allows you to do all of these beautiful miraculous things while you dance with His Son and ALL of His Angels! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our amazing beautiful angel Nitalia!!! You continue to shine on this earth from above through the Glory of God and allow us to see you through all of His Beauty!
We Love you Forever and Miss you For Always…
More than words can say!
Love,
Mommy XOXOXOXOXO

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2011 Nitalia’s Blanket Drop – Cardon’s Childrens Hospital

Daddy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:56:31 +0000

Yes, yet another successful Nitalia’s Blanket Drop occurred last night at Cardon’s Childrens Hospital in Mesa Arizona! We hand delivered hundreds of blankets, socks and scarves to the oncology unit at Cardons. A very special THANK YOU goes out to Girl Scout Troop 135 that collected over 150 blankets for the kids in the hospital! What an incredible job they did! Some of the troop joined us in handing out the blankets to the patients in the hospital. We also need to give a great big THANK YOU to David Hyatt! David was so enthusiastic about delivering the blankets. He took us on a tour of the oncology unit and even showed the troop the toy closet! We cant thank him enough for making this a great experience! Lastly, we need to THANK Alma Espinoza for introducing troop 135 and Nitalia’s Blankets! THANK YOU Alma for your love and commitment to helping children fighting cancer!

We arrived at the hospital at 5:30PM and were welcomed by a slew of smiling faces! Troop 135 was suited up in their green best and ready to hand out blankets to the kids. David met us in the lobby with big red wagons to get the bags upstairs. When we arrived in the playroom, it took less then 10 seconds for kids to start coming in to get their Purple Package! Kids and nurses streamed in and selected their blanket, socks, and scarf! After all the kids got their gifts, we piled up a wagon with blankets, socks and scarves for the kids at the oncology clinic.
Well, you know that I was looking for my sign from Nitalia…she ALWAYS lets us know she is there with us, and sure enough as we walked out of the unit Aviona said “Look at that!”. We all turned to look at what she saw and there all by itself was a solitary PURPLE BALLOON tied to a small chair. Now, we walked past that very chair on the way in and the was not a balloon tied there! Of course I had all the girls gather around the “Nitalia balloon” for a picture! And guess what? After saying goodbye to troop 135, Suzann, Aviona, Isabella, and I proceeded to walk to our car…
As we walked I noticed the name of the parking lot we parked in… THE PURPLE PARKING LOT!!! I swear, ya can’t make this stuff up! I included some pictures below!

A Huge THANK YOU goes out to Sequoya, Cocopah, and Chaparral schools for the incredible job they did in collecting blankets and handmaking Purple scarves!
A Gigantic THANK YOU needs to go to the Antigua Group and The Bunkers for donating the 500 Purple tee shirts that were used to handmake the funky scarves.
We could not have done the scarves without the direction of Moira Winters who dedicated her time and talent to teaching the kids (and adults) to make the scarves, Thank you sooooo much!

NEXT STOP: ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA!

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2011 Nitalia’s Blanket Drop – Phoenix Children’s Hospital!

Daddy — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:48:20 +0000

Today was a great day. We made our first blanket drop to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. What a blessing is was to hand out packages of warmth and love to all the children. Two of the officers (Luzy Ofarrill and Alexander Prowda) from the Chaparral Junior Purple Society joined Nancy Prowda, Suzann and myself for the delivery. EVERY CHILD in the oncology unit received a beautiful new blanket, a pair of fuzzy socks and a handmade Purple scarf made by the kids at Sequoia Elementary School, Cocopah Middle School and Chaparral High School. The children that were in active bone marrow treatment had their nurses come by the playroom to pick up their Purple Package!

A Very Special THANK YOU goes to Dr. Steve Beck and his wonderful wife Lesli. We cant thank them enough for helping us get the blankets directly onto the oncology unit!
A Huge THANK YOU goes out to Sequoia, Cocopah, and Chaparral schools for the incredible job they did in collecting blankets and handmaking Purple scarves!
A Gigantic THANK YOU needs to go to the Antigua Group and The Bunkers for donating the 500 Purple tee shirts that were used to handmake the funky scarves.
We could not have done the scarves without the direction of Moira Winters who dedicated her time and talent to teaching the kids (and adults) to make the scarves, Thank you sooooo much!

This “Blanket Drop” was a very special one for our family…It was the first delivery without Nitalia being by our side. She LOVED to hand the blankets directly to the children. Talking to each and every one of them! And always sending them off with a “Feel Better”! As always she showed up to remind us that she’s ALWAYS with us…How?
A little girl with a PURPLE SHIRT on walked up to me in the playroom, tapped me on the leg, and said “Hi!”. I turned around and saw a BIG SMILE and BIG BROWN EYES… I immediately saw Nitalia in those eyes, and knew it was her reminding me that she was there. (I included a picture of her below)

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The Purple Society on EVB Live

Daddy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:13:04 +0000

Channel 12 did a beautiful piece on The Purple Society this morning! They had Kristin and I on live after the piece aired. THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting together such a great video on our journey. Trisha, Syleste, & Channel 12, We can’t express how important what you have done is. We received over 100 emails from people that watched the show this morning…ALL OF THEM WANT TO GET INVOLVED!!!
Kristin, You know how special you are to our family and Nitalia’s foundation…Your dedication and love is something every family should be blessed to experience!

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Time For Nitalia’s Blankets!

Daddy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:08:42 +0000

Over the last 3 years, (every Christmas season) we deliver thousands of blankets to childrens hospitals across the country. Nitalia started this when she was a patient at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. This season, we continue her mission of delivering blankets to children in treatment…but with an added bonus! This year we are adding PURPLE SCARVES for the kids! It all started when Nitalia’s sister Aviona was given a scarf by her teacher Mrs. Louise Bunker at Cocopah Middle School. Mrs. Bunker had a Purple Nitalia’s Walk t-shirt crocheted into a PURPLE SCARF by her friend Moira! Aviona LOVED it and so did all the children that have seen it!. So Aviona approached Mrs. Bunker and asked if she would like to help this year with Nitalias Blanket drive by adding scarves to the delivery. Not only did Mrs. Bunker help…She and her husband Craig, reached out to their friend Ron McPherson over at The Antigua Group and had a shipment of over 500 PURPLE TEE SHIRTS donated and delivered! We can’t thank them enough for the unbelievably generous donation! And we can’t thank The Antigua Group enough for the beautiful PURPLE SHIRTS! SO, SO, Generous! The kids at the hospitals are going to LOVE these!

We are now recruiting a team of crocheters to help make the scarves. If you or someone you know can volunteer to help make the scarves email us here: volunteer@werpurple.org. Kids and adults alike can participate in the creation of the scarves. We will be making them at Mrs. Bunkers room at Cocopah Middle School in Scottsdale.

Now for the blankets…
We are currently collecting NEW blankets for our delivery. You can send blankets to: The Purple Society 6104 E. Clinton St., Scottsdale, Arizona 85254.
DROP OFF ZONES:
SEQUOYA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
11808 N. 64th Street Scottsdale, AZ 85254

COCOPAH MIDDLE SCHOOL
6615 E. Cholla Street Scottsdale, AZ 85254

CHAPARRAL HIGH SCHOOL
6935 E. Gold Dust Avenue Scottsdale, AZ 85253

Delivery date to the hospitals is scheduled for the week of December 19th, so start collecting those blankets!

REMEMBER: Blankets must be NEW. They can be hand made or store bought. Please only give NEW SOFT blankets. The children that are going through active cancer treatments have low immunine systems and sensitive skin.

Why are we making and collecting blankets?

HOPE

We want to give hope to the children that are fighting a battle against cancer. We know we can’t cure the cancer with a blanket, but we can keep out the cold, ease the aches and pains, and give comfort where it is needed most. We want to honor Nitalia’s courageous spirit with the blankets we collect and create. With each stitch goes love, hope and courage. When a child wraps up in one of our blankets, we envision it as our arms bundling them up, warming their bodies and soothing their hearts. They are a shield from the fears and unknowns, a soft and comforting security for children who are in the hospital and far from the comforts of home. We are no one special, we are not extraordinary, we are the ordinary people that you see every day.

Together we are secret warriors against this disease, smothering it in Love, Hope and Faith.

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My Amazing Lovebug!!!

Daddy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:32:13 +0000

Hi My Amazing Lovebug,
Well I know you are constantly hearing me talk to You and GOD, every second of every day even while I’m sleeping (or should be sleeping), I don’t stop, but I just can’t help it, I miss you, I love you, I need you, more than words can say! And You are a very busy angel bee, Thank GOD, helping us in every single way. Like Mrs. Solod says…GOD is sitting on HIS big beautiful throne and HE’s tapping HIS very large fingers on the arm rests of that throne surrounded by all of HIS angels, and here You come fluttering all around HIM, hugging HIM, kissing HIM, loving on HIM the only way You know how! You climb up on HIS enormous lap and say in your sweet loving voice “GOD just one more thing for my mom?!?!” And HE says in HIS larger than life, beautiful, glorious, strong, loving voice while tapping HIS very large fingers kinda sternly, “BUT NITALIA YOUR MOTHER NEVER SHUTS UP, SHE’S CONSTANTLY TALKING AND ASKING ME FOR EVERYTHING, EVEN WHEN SHE SHOULD BE SLEEPING!!!” And you say “but GOD Pleeeeeeease…help my mom…one more thing for my mom???” while hugging and kissing HIM. And what does HE do??? HE listens to You, because HE Loves You soooo, and HE does what You ask of HIM, because You are HIS sweet angel that has brought so much love to so many people through HIM, by HIM, for HIM! Your name crosses the lips of people all over the world that never met You or our family but that continuously find strength through the faith, love, and determination You continue to give to the world because of Your faith and love of GOD. I am so thankful and so grateful to be Your mom and I know You are right here with Me, Daddy, Aviona, and Isabella. Right next to us but in a form that we can’t see (and our hearts miss you beyond any understanding). Through Your amazing glorious signs that GOD allows You to show us constantly…through THEM we see You and THEY are ENDLESS!
I LOVE You Nitalia…more than words can say and I MISS You beyond any understanding,
Forever,
Mommy XOXOXOXOXO
PS… Hug and Kiss GOD for me and tell HIM I LOVE HIM, I know HE heard me tell HIM already quite a few times today (between ALL the other conversations I’ve already had with HIM) but I just can’t help it.

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Purple Pepper Days @ Chili’s

Daddy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:53:08 +0000

The Purple Society and Chili’s have partnered to bring you PURPLE PEPPER DAYS! Visit your local Chili’s restaurant the FIRST Tuesday of every month and 10% of the proceeds from that day will go to The Purple Society!! So you can eat like royalty while helping families facing childhood cancer!

:: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FLYER TO BRING WITH YOU ::

YOU MUST TELL YOUR SERVER THAT YOU ARE THERE FOR PURPLE PEPPER DAYS!!!

This is such a perfect partnership for us! As many of you know Chili’s has played such a large part in our journey. Chili’s donated the Chili’s building at St. Jude Research hospital, where Nitalia was treated for over 2 years. Every day we walked into that building looking up at the big Chili’s logo. That building is incredible, perfectly built for the kids that are going through radiation treatment. There is a big play area, computers, and a huge fish tank that we sat with Nitalia in front of.

To have this partnership with Chili’s is such a blessing, and a culmination of years of thanking them for their help. The Chili’s team even walked on Nitalia’s team, raising hundreds of thousands of dollares for childhood cancer research.

Purple Pepper Days are starting in the Phoenix Metro area. We would like to bring this program NATIONAL and Chili’s has agreed to do that.

Here is what we need all of you do to make this happen:
Go to your local Chili’s with the Purple Pepper Day flyer, and tell them about the program that is happening in the Phoenix Metro area. Let the manager know you would like to start the program at your location. The person for your location manager to contact is:
Chili’s
Phone # 480-969-0515
Fax # 480-969-0517
Brent Severson, Managing Partner

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