Jonathan Story and Race Day Footage

Chris Montana and Johnny Rockett with Fox News came to our house last Tuesday to film a human interest story on Jonathan. We expected something short and sweet - nothing like what we saw Friday night. To watch, click here: http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=8357868.

Both teams ran well on Sunday. Thank you for your prayers - everyone was healthy and the weather turned out to be perfect. You can see a slideshow below of all of our pictures. If it does not work below, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjNmQcZpoeA.

We did not realize that our teams were competing against each other until Jamie asked Scott Bickel for some advice on how to stretch his knee. Scott is a PT and Scott said, "I'm not helping you!" We strapped in for a fight. The McCrory/Bickel/Elliott team ended up beating us in terms of time but everyone gave it all they had.

Many thanks to those of you who have donated, have prayed, and who ran for Jonathan. We appreciate all of you and would not have made it this far personally in our Down syndrome journey if it had not been for you. Please feel free to pass along our name, website, or email address to anyone you come into contact with who might walk in our shoes one day. We love to share, listen, encourage, and pay it forward.

To those of you who want to donate but have not yet done so, our deadline TO WIN is MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2009. We would still need to raise about $3,500 to $4,000. No donation is too small (or too big, of course!).

To make a tax deductible donation, you can either go online or mail in a check. To go online, click on www.firstgiving.com/jonathanhallwarren. If you would like to write a check, make it payable to The Bell Center with Jonathan's name in the "for" space and mail it to The Bell Center, 1700 29th Court South, Birmingham, AL, 35209.

Mercedes Marathon 2009 slideshow, featuring Suzanne Cook, the Warrens (Jamie, Julie, Jackson, Jonathan, and Jim), Jayne Bishop, Drew and Julie Cundiff, Courtney and Scott McCrory, the Bickels (Scott, Nanette, Bryce, and Elise), and the Elliotts (Jay, Melissa, and Jonah).

Many thanks,

Jamie, Julie, Jackson, and Jonathan