Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Kona Inspired 3/26/2013

While doing the viewing statistics today, I have to admit, I started to get a little emotional.  When you are the this side of the computer you don't always see how many people are reading what you write.  I finally was able to see through this internet window when I calculated the views.  Here are the results:

1 Boudousa Brain 3442
2 Shawn's Ironman 2274
3 Green Dot (Henry Tolstedt) 1655
4 Kona hopeful F16 pilot 1471
5 The Quadfather (Nick Tieney) 880
6 Isabella' Legacy 501
7 Happy Birthday Ironman 414
8 Eric Yollick (Team Yollick) 317
9 Fireman Brian's Mission 299
10 The Opportunity 268
11 I am ... "Anything is possible" (Milan Dubravka) 244
12 Operation Brain Tumor (Ted Pepenhagen II) 229
13 Crash To Kona (TychoRiis Weiche) 218
14 A race for the women in my life 193
15 my biggest dream (Christian Schon) 162
16 Dean Kashlan Mantra (Dean Kashlan) 153
17 Spirit of Hawaii (Anja Kraft) 43

This may look normal to all of you that have been following our progress since we have not moved from second in views, but were it gets special is the fact we have gained momentum on the first place participant and you voted/viewed the Shawn's Ironman nearly 400 times more than the second most viewed video yesterday.  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Where this day gets really awesome is when I get responses from families that are honored by what we are trying to accomplish.  Recently, the Jakya's family sent me a response that I thought I would share with you:

Thank you so much for the longest. I thought nobody cared but you show me that some people still do care.  Thank you.  You have no idea how much this means.  

I tried getting help for our family. We had to stay up in Louisville which is 4 hours from home. The whole time had little money and noone would help, not even my co-workers. Jakya was only 3 weeks old when she went home to God. We have been trying to get her name out there for a while now. This is great that you are wanting to honor her by putting her name on the flag.  We are so excited.  

Everyone, I just want to remind you how important your daily vote is.  It is the most important you can do for families like this.  You directly giving HOPE to these families that you care!  I know you do, but now the world needs to see it.

I will be putting up a page on the blog that will have all of the names that will be on the flag.  Please continue to vote daily and please let everyone know about the flag so we can add more names of children.  YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!