Last Friday Gwendolyn received a surprise package in the mail. I already told you about the special Wizard of Oz tea set and boy does she love this. But the gifts also included a set of Wizard of Oz dolls and a Wizard of Oz sticker book. Now to say this w ...
State of California Declares EVERY August as SMA Awareness Month!
Awesome news! The state of California has once again declared August as SMA Awareness Month. You may recall the declaration last year, but there is much more to this year's declaration. The proclamation doesn't just pertain to this August. Nope. ...
Team GSF Conquers Ironman France
The athletes involved with Team GSF are amazing! We are continually humbled by what they accomplish and that they are doing it for the SMA cause. David Price is a college friend of Bill's. You may remember he competed in a triathlon last year for Tea ...
A Royal Tea Party in Oz
This weekend Gwendolyn received a very special package of gifts (more on that later) -- one of which is a Wizard of Oz tea set. Gwendolyn has been in heaven playing with it. We had a tea party yesterday with Laurie, Chris and Connor at the Santa Barbara ...
Kacie Jean Photography Donating to theGSF Entire Month of August
August is SMA Awareness month and we are so excited that the amazing and continually acclaimed Kacie Jean Photography will be donating 5% to the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation for the entire month. Kacie is based in Santa Barbara and is booking up quickly a ...
Goal Set. Goal Achieved: Montecito Half Marathon
What an incredible experience -- I finished the Montecito-Summerland Half Marathon on Saturday in just under 2 hours! On Saturday, my great friend and fellow Team GSF SB Marathon runner, Mike Paskin, our friend, Steve Fergusson, my awesome trai ...
Climb4SMA Conquers Mt. Rainier To Fight SMA
The inspiring Jadons Hope and Climb4SMA are at it again! As ifclimbing the 23,000 foot Mt. Aconcagua and raising over $45,000 for theGSFs $200K For SMA fundraising campaign wasnt impressive enough, Jim Baker decided to create a team of climbers to tackle ...
100 Miles For Owen = Awesomeness
100 miles. 100 miles in 26 hours and 54 minutes. 100 miles in memory of sweet Owen Simmons. Stephen Taylor completed his second Western States 100 endurance challenge and he's got the bumps and blisters to show for it. What Stephen did was incredible ...
Long Weekend Love
Oh what a weekend! Prepare for photo overload because we have been having a blast enjoying the warm weather with friends and celebrating our favorite fella's birthday. On Saturday Bill got to spend the day golfing with our friend Will, while I got ...
Strawberry Festival Goodness
The Strawberry Festival in Troy, Ohio was just a few weeks ago and it was amazing! The truly remarkable Penny and Melissa, who own the fabulous children's accessory storeBeb-e-ssentials,hosted a booth at the festival and made it their mission to incr ...