A note from Bethany…

3/31 marked the day we should've been celebrating Hallie's 7th birthday. 7 seems so old! Those seven years have felt like both a lifetime and a blink of an eye. The higher that number gets, the more unfair it feels with every added moment and milestone missed. Seeing the joy and wonder for life in our two boys now, watching them gravitate to the things they love and seeing their hilarious personalities unfold is both my greatest joy every day and my biggest ache that we'll never get that with Hallie. I spend so much time wondering who she'd be today! What her birthday theme would've been. How much fun we would've had watching basketball all weekend together.

Pulling me out of the depth of that ache though was Hallie's Day of Hope. What an incredible honor it was to witness so much love (and incredible creativity!) in memory of our little girl. We continued to get messages and pictures of acts of kindness for days after. The QR code on those tags? They were scanned quite literally across the entire US. From Seattle to Fort Myers, Washington DC to Anchorage, Birmingham to Sioux Falls. And everywhere in between. In the moments where the emotions as Hallie's mom were hitting the hardest this weekend, I thought about what each recipient must've felt and how much joy they must've found. I know first hand as I was a recipient this year! I came home to the sweetest bouquet of flowers and note of encouragement on my front porch. Beauty from the ashes feeling that joys and knowing so many people felt that same, in Hallie's memory. You all truly made her day our greatest rusty lining yet.

Thank you for honoring her, thank you for making the day a little easier for our hearts and thank you for keeping her legacy alive! We are forever grateful for this incredible HallieStrong community. You carry us through some of our hardest days!

We look forward to Hallie’s Day of Hope 2025!

#halliestrong,
Bethany, Kevin & Team Hallie