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part time nicu nurse ~ full time mama👧🏼🧒🏼👶🏼 my baby was born with half a 💔 #hlhs choosing joy, to live in love & keep it REAL mostly in stories

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Full Interview with such a nice lady https://youtu.be/7A8eTTwEFqg?si=82rv8t-0DxB95heH

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Some places become part of your story. 🍎
From childhood visits, to trips as newlyweds, to returning years later with kids in tow—Apple Farm has been there through so many chapters. Seeing families come back again and again, recreating photos and memories along the way, is what makes this place so special to us.

Thank you for sharing your journey and for choosing Apple Farm to celebrate life’s milestones.

📸: @alisamnelson

#SanLuisObispo #SanLuisObispoCA #SanLuisObispoCalifornia

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Wishing a very Happy Halloween to our @3sisterscoffeeandtea paint night community!
I know I’m missing some tags but I tried 🤪😅🎃👻

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Last night’s Create & Sip was so much fun! So many guests commented on how relaxing it was 🥰🎨
Huge thanks to @3sisterscoffeeandtea for hosting our Create & Sips!!
Watch to the end to see a peek of our next one on Nov 7!

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saying goodbye to the sweetest summer yet 🌀🐚☀️♥️🤸‍♀️🐠

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Just finished Randy’s episode of Into The Void on @hulu. Randy is a legend and as a fan I really appreciate that he was featured in this docuseries and how well it was done. There was a lot I learned about Randy that I never knew and can’t help but wonder what all he would’ve accomplished. If you haven’t yet you have to check out his episode! #randyrhoads #guitar #legend #rip #musician #hulu #ozzyosbourne #sharonosbourne #rudysarzo #blizzardofozz #diaryofamadman #intothevoid

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Merch for Sale!!
Send us a DM if you are interested in purchasing some Charlie’s Champs gear
🖤🥎❤️
We will ship!

Vinyl stickers $5
Hats $20 (we have kids and adult)
Youth shirts $15 (small-large)
Adult shirts $20 (sizes small-XXL)

Thanks to @printersaurusrex for all their help printing all of our tournament banners, merchandise, table runners, step and repeat backdrop, and more.

and please tag us when you are out and about sporting your tournament gear ☺️

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Two whole weeks have passed since our amazing tournament day but we have still been busy behind the scenes wrapping up all the loose ends- packing away merch and supplies, writing down notes for the next event, announcing the winners of the guitar and pedal, and making sure everyone has received their raffle and silent auction wins …

We had some donations coming in still and are waiting for company matches to post before we announce our final amounts raised but things are looking gooooood and we believe that we are on track to exceed last years amount raised of over $38,000! 🎉

We know everyone is eagerly anticipating the final numbers as are we!

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The @charlieschampstournament division champs have been crowned but there are still TWO big chances to win and help @webuildhearts find a cure for Congenital Heart Disease for kids like Charlie ❤️

Tickets are still available for your chance to win either this stunning Randy Rhoads Jackson guitar or the 2nd edition Dunlop distortion+ RR Concorde effect pedal (not yet available for sale).

Guitar tickets are $10 each
Pedal tickets are $5 each

ALL funds go directly to the nonprofit 501(c)(3) Heartworks.

No limit for either on how many tickets purchased but winner is restricted to the continental US.

Raffle will close the night of Friday August 29th at 11:59 pm.

Winner selected via Instagram live with @dargmama and Charlie on Saturday August 30th at approx 6 pm pacific time.

Good luck! 🤘🏻🎸🖤

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💙⚾ Meet Charlie the Champion, a 7 year-old from Burbank born with half a heart. His courage has inspired the Nelson family to create the Charlie’s Champs Charity Softball Tournament, raising funds for HeartWorks (@webuildhearts), a nonprofit fighting for better treatments and cures for congenital heart disease.

Join Charlie and his family this Saturday, August 23 at George Izay Park for a day of softball, food, raffles, and family fun, all for an incredible cause. 🥎✨

Can’t make it? You can still support Charlie and HeartWorks by donating directly through the link in @charlieschampstournament bio. Every dollar makes a difference. ❤️

#CharliesChamps #HeartWorks #BurbankStrong #PlayForCharlie

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Hi 👋🏻 my name is Alisa and I am the face behind this account… mama to Charlie, Sammy and Edee and wife to Matthew.

I am a born and raised Burbank local and really love our community.

I have been a NICU nurse at CHLA for over 20 years, most of which was before Charlie was born. I can clearly see my life as before diagnosis day and after diagnosis day and the huge impact it has made not only Matthew and my life but on any and everyone who is in our lives.
Once I had a sick child of my own I realized how incredibly important the work we do as health care workers is and what a huge impact we can make for the families and patients we care for.

I truly love helping others and believe that is the purpose for why we are here, to help others through their struggles.
And I genuinely believe that most people are GOOD and want to help too, which has been so evident in planning our tournament.

Shown here is this years @webuildhearts tournament bags which all players and volunteers will receive, we are soooo grateful for all the help and support and super excited for Saturday.

See you at the fields 👍🏻👍🏻

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Why are we doing this?!
1- awareness 2- hope 3- change

One of the hardest things about Charlie’s disease is that there is NO CURE. No matter how many surgeries, procedures, interventions, tests, pokes, or meds he takes the most disheartening aspect of all is watching him endure it all but knowing that it’s never done and behind us. No matter what we do he still has half a heart. Everything he has been through is merely a way to help him survive as long and as well as possible.

30 + years ago the treatment for HLHS did not yet exist, it was a universally fatal diagnosis. But it took those willing to take a chance to make a difference for kids like Charlie. Had it never been for the risks taken all those years ago, Charlie wouldn’t be here today.

Even in the last 7 years since he was born there have been many advances in the care and treatment of this disease. @webuildhearts has helped bring many of those advances to light… and our hope is that in time the advances that are yet to come will eventually help Charlie and kids like him even more than we are able to do so today.

Join us as we strive to bring more awareness to Congenital Heart Disease and hope for a better future for our kids ❤️

#charlieschamps #hlhs #chdawareness

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