Wed April 8th our Alex would be turning 16 years old. Its emotional thinking about all the things he would be doing now if he were still here. The biggest right of passage for many 16 year olds of course is driving…he would have absolutely hands down loved that! Tomorrow we will be celebrating our sweet strong boy as a family, we will be sending out some gifts to a few of our PWC families, but we thought of a few ideas that you could also do to help celebrate Alex’s 16th birthday with us!

*Donate 1 item from our Amazon wish list (link below). As some of you may already know, we haven’t been able to host our annual Kids Helping Kids Donation drive this year with all the schools and group closings. We usually hold this drive in March but were moving it to April as it is Alex’s bday month. We are super low on our toy stock and rely each year on the local groups who participate in our annual KHK donation drive to replenish for the upcoming year. **We DO NOT want anyone to go out shopping for items and have made it super simple to help. Click on the link below and choose 1 item to donate – our shipping address is already in there so your item chosen will come right to us. Link to our wishlist: https://smile.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IR2QA8EQXZDA…

*Donate $16 on our website – any funds donated will be used for us to purchase toys/gifts to help restock our supply for the care packages we send to families and that are used during our hospital visits. Link to donate

*Get down and do 16 or 20 pushups in honor of our guy sweet strong guy! Tag us @alexsarmyccf or send us your pics/videos! #Twenty4Alex

We know these are difficult days…we love you all and are so thankful for Alex’s Army! Know that while sometimes life can be more than difficult, there is always hope and even in some of the darkest days you can always find God’s light shining through.

Alex we miss you more than words and hope that you’ll be smiling down on us tomorrow from Heaven. Happy 16th Birthday sweet boy!