Hearts In Action

We are so sorry to report that we lost our sweet Summer tonight. She was sixteen years old. She died peacefully in her bedroom, surrounded by her entire family. We are heartbroken. She was courageous to the end. She recently told a close family friend, “Promise me you will let everyone know, especially my friends,…

Summer’s car is in our driveway! A gorgeous, red 2006 Honda CRV!! Summer is over the moon! Let me share with you how this all came about. Two weeks ago, friends and family of Summer set out make a big dream of hers come true. The Make-A-Wish people had come by a few weeks earlier….

This is Summer’s mom: You all are really blowing us away! Donations are coming in from all over. People we know…people we don’t know…contributions ranging from $5 to $1000. So far, including generous contributions from Keller Williams agents at the end of a class led by Shaun Rawls and Jeri Moran, you all have raised…

The Make-A-Wish people came by a while back to see if they could grant a wish for Summer. As you may know, Make-A-Wish grants a wish to every kid with cancer, regardless of prognosis. The ONLY thing Summer wanted was a car, something she has dreamed about for years. But cars are not something Make-A-Wish…

We can’t wait to tell you about two special girls – Taylor is on the left and Amy is on the right. For months now, they have been raising money to promote cancer awareness. They’ve sold customized name bracelets, made cards to sell, and sold lemonade and hot chocolate at the 13th hole of a…

Early this summer, 13-year-old Robbie was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his left femur. He’s a great kid. Funny, fun, enthusiastic…even as he is facing some very rough times. When we told his mom we wanted to get him a Team Summer gift to help get his mind off things,  she said she knew just what…

We are so excited to announce two more Team Summer gifts! Two laptops for two boys in two different cities! When we met 13-year old Collin in Houston at MD Anderson, he had just been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma two weeks earlier, and his family was still reeling. Collin was dealing with the reality that…

This is Lynne Dale, Summer’s mom. As an administrator of the Team Summer Facebook page, I get to see the number of people who click on or see every post. For example, the one that started “Never doubt the power of the human heart,” was seen by 3,378 people. Another entitled “Surgery is over!”, 5200…

Summer and Team Summer were the subject of an Invisible Children blog this week! If you’ve ever heard of the documentary “Kony 2012”, which went viral earlier this year on YouTube, you know that Invisible Children is the organization behind the movement to capture Joseph Kony and bring him to justice. Kony leads Uganda’s LRA,…

Alan Sanders has not had an easy life. He’s only four, but he has been battling a rare sarcoma for the last three years. In his short life, he has been through multiple rounds of chemo, radiation and surgery. His room is just down the hall from us at MD Anderson in Houston, and he…