We remember Shane every year by walking in the March for Babies with our team, Shane's Gang! We are hoping to make 2010 Shane's Gang's biggest year yet!! Please visit www.marchforbabies.org/dadoo12704 to donate or to join us! This year, we are walking in Bolingbrook, Illinois. The walk is about 3 miles long, which is much shorter than the previous 2 walks downtown, so hopefully more families will join us!

Once again, Shane's Gang walked in the March for Babies in downtown Chicago on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Although it poured rain all over us, we had a blast!! Thank you to Shannon, Joyce, Lyndsey, Amanda, & Mike, and of course to everyone who sponsored us! We raised close to $2000! See ya next year!

Shane was a part of our 2008 Christmas portraits. The little white teddy bear that we took home from the hospital was in all of our pictures. You can view them on this site - just click on the "Shane's Family" link at the top of the page!

On Saturday, November 8, 2008, we remembered Shane's 1st birthday. We had a family dinner that night with Shane's Grandma & Grandpa Theres, his Aunt Genia & Uncle Bill and cousins Izabella & Lucas, and of course his mommy, daddy, and big brother Miles. His Grandma Cindy said a beautiful prayer before dinner to help us remember him. After dinner, we had the boys blow out Shane's candle on his birthday cupcake, and then Miles took his balloon bouquet outside and let it go with his birthday card attached. Thank you to all the people who signed Shane's card.

We try to remember Shane in everything we do. Our family recently took a trip to Florida to visit Grandma and Grandpa Jeffery. It seems like everywhere we go, everything we do together, no matter where we are, butterflies seem to show up around us. We are convinced that this is Shane's way of visiting with us, and letting us know he's there with us and still a part of our family as he always will be. We saw butterflies when we were swimming together in Grandma and Grandpa's pool, when we were waiting in line at Disney for a ride, and even when daddy went fishing with Grandpa and his brothers! We also saw a ton of butterflies all summer long in our backyard, especially when we put in our pool and we were all swimming in it together! Thank you Shane! Keep on visiting!

"Shane's Gang" walked the 6.2 mile March for Babies in downtown Chicago on Sunday, April 27, 2008! As a team, we raised an unbelievable grand total of $3,980 for the March of Dimes in memory of our precious baby boy, Shane. Thank you so much to everyone who made it such a successful day! We will never forget it!

We threw a Luau on Saturday, June 7, 2008 to thank everyone who walked or sponsored our team in the March for Babies, as well as many other family and friends to say thank you for everything that they did for us to help us deal with the loss of our baby boy! Our fundraising was a huge success thanks to everyone!!

Mommy and daddy got our beautiful memorial tattoos done on Thursday & Friday, April 3rd & 4th - visit this website to see the awesome artist ~DOC~ that did them - click here! More pictures coming soon!

Mommy is planning on making a scrapbook and a shadow box of Shane's pictures and things.

We hung a photo collage of some of the pictures from Shane's birth right next to our front door.

Mommy wears a necklace with 2 charms on it - one charm says "Mommy's Angel, Shane Michael, 11-8-07" and has his birthstone - and the other one is the symbol (figure 8) for "infinity".