It is that time of year again that we are submitting our video in the 2012 Primrose/Children’s Miracle Network Dance Off. Going to school full time and working full time made me strongly consider not entering our family in the competition this year, but for the following reasons, we felt that the least we could do is submit a 30 second video of our family dancing.
1) This is an obesity awareness campaign. Upon moving to West Virginia, we realized this state has one of the highest (if not highest) rate of obesity per capita. Good health is something we feel strongly about and wanted to raise awareness to others in the state.
2) Dancing is something silly we do around the house all the time to burn some energy, so we wanted to share that with others encourage them to do the same.
3) While our experience with Children’s Hospitals are limited (and we are very thankful for that), since moving to WV, we have met some neighbors in our community whose stories really touched us. We have had the opportunity to meet a young boy who was diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease as well as a family who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl with a heart condition, requiring immediate heart surgery. These two very touching stories brought a whole new perspective to our family of meaning behind and the value that winning this money could do for our local Morgantown/WVU Children's hospital.
Children’s hospitals never turn away a patient for financial reasons, and the least we could do is help win up to a $30K donation that can be used for these patients, or for the hospital to buy better equipment to enhance the quality of care.
Last year the competition was different as it was judged in addition to the number of votes received. This year, it is based solely on votes. Additionally, there is no registration required this year, just click and vote (one time per day per IP address), which I think will be to our advantage as people really HATED registering last year.
I ask that you please take a couple of seconds out of your day to click on the link below to help win money for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in Morgantown, WV. Please feel free to share this with any others that would like to help. All you have to do is vote.
Voting starts February 25, 2012 and you can continue to vote once per day per IP address until we make it to the finals (4 videos with the highest number of votes each week go to the finals).
If we make it the finals, there will be a final voting week where the sixteen finalists will compete from 12:00 a.m. EST on March 26, 2012 to 11:59 EST on March 30, 2012.
One the video is posted, you can vote (and learn more about the contest) here:
http://danceoff.primroseschools.com/
The Holway Family
Thank you for supporting such a great cause!
If you would like a sneak peak of the video prior to it posting for voting tomorrow, you can view it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccyRFdJty4
P.S. In case you were wondering how we chose our video idea, we chose the song that we danced around our house to the most over the past year. With the exception of the Hollywood backdrop, each background is a place we've lived. We hope you enjoy (and I apologize that my editing skills and green screen were below par).
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Update* Here is a link to our media article for making it to the finals. We won $1000 for the WVU children's hospital.
We ended up teaming up with the Froehlich Family and they were able to win 3rd place this year!! Next year hopefully we'll have enough time to pull it off (don't all of you get too excited at once! :))
Thank you to everyone who supported us!
