Holly Hoop: Remembering our Baby Girl: Invite

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Invite

Friends and Family,
After our daughter Holland unexpectedly passed away last October we decided we wanted to organize an annual 5k/10k memorial run in her memory. We named the route the Holly Hoop and would like to invite you and your family to join us for the in augral run on Saturday, October 20th. To participate, please RSVP to nickandlexie@gmail.com and let us know the following:

Names of persons attending?
How you would like to participate?
- Run/walk 10k
- Run/walk 5k
- Volunteer (check-in, water station, course support, etc.)
- Other (you may bike, or we have even had interest in people roller-blading)

In addition to the Holly Hoop Run, there will be other events surrounding the anniversary of Holland’s passing.

Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone we may have accidentally missed or who would be interested in participating.

Thank you for all of your thoughts and support over the last year,
Nick, Lexie, and Brizzy

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Welcome to Holland's blog. We wanted to share a little bit about this blog and what its purpose is. Our daughter Holland Kay Cottle died on October 22, 2011. She was two months old and no cause of death was found (SIDS). It has been beyond painful to have our daughter not with us. We miss her every day. But her short life and death have been a blessing to us as well. We have learned a great deal about life, our family, and ourselves. And we want to use the lessons gained from this painful experience for something that might help another family's life. On the Saturday before the 1 year anniversary of her death (AKA Holly-day), we will be running a 5k/10k in Lake Oswego, Oregon, which we have named the Holly Hoop. We want to encourage anyone who is interested to run, walk, bike, rollerblade, etc. in the 5k/10k. We will also be collecting donations for anyone who is interested. We will then use the donations to give to a local family who has lost a child. We will be giving the family a donation to be used specifically for grief counseling. Thank you for coming to our blog and checking it out.