Kyla's Fund

(NOTE: This posting is also on CaringBridge as the last posting that Brettie entered)

Dearest Family and Friends, we have been so busy the last six months trying to look at our future and allowing God and Kyla to lead the way. We have been starting new projects and making new friends. We are looking at the future and seeing the path lay out before us. We have only talked to close family and friends about the things that we are planning and for the first time we are ready to share it with the rest of you.

We were given information about opening up a charitable gift fund by a person that came to know Kyla through her classroom as school. This person told us we could open it in Kyla's name. While we were very interested in the possibility of opening a gift fund on behalf of Kyla, we sat on it for a while not knowing if we should do this and if we did, what we would want the outcome to be. A week before Kyla's birthday we opened a gift fund in her name with the help of our parents...and on the day of Kyla's birthday we gave our first gift to Make-A-Wish. Since then we've seen and heard of what gifts like that have done for other children facing the challenges of their lives. It was a gratifying and uplifting experience and even more special to have it done in Kyla's name. We just had a meeting yesterday with the woman who gave us this wonderful idea, Lisa Ramage, a mother who's son is in the third grade at John McLoughlin...the same class Kyla would be in if she were here with us. Her son was in Kyla's first grade class and Lisa got to know Kyla when she would go and volunteer. She has so many great thoughts for this fund, so it was fun to bounce ideas off of each other.

On another note....we have started our own photography business. We have had a lot of business by just word of mouth, but now that Bret has gotten most of the site done we are ready to show all of you. It is inspiring and challenging all at the same time and we just love it. We had photos taken of our family during Kyla's illness and think it is such a gift to be able to have those photos. Our goal with this photography business is to go to hospitals with terminally ill children and take family photos at no cost, through The Kyla McCullough Gift Fund. We do it as a team, and feel that it is a very good fit for our family. We have yet to take our new found gift to a hospital and do what we so desperately want to do, but have the confidence that in time we'll be able to do so. Until then, we have done senior photos, infants, families, friends, and just landed a job to do event photography. We just have a blast with each job we get and feel blessed to have the opportunity to share in people's memories. Our company is called ThreeT Photography, and you can go to http://www.threetphotography.com to see our site. Now, like I said it is still a work in progress but you can certainly see what we've been up to.

Thanks everyone who is still behind us and are encouraging us to continue on with life. We are trying to honor Kyla the best way we know how, and feel that what we are doing would make her smile. Please continue checking the sites and walking with us in our new adventure. We feel blessed to have you by our side.