This one's for you, Elle!

Getty's football coach, Coach White, wanted to surprise our family by dedicating a football game to Elle. He issued each of his players a pair of pink/black custom "Elle" socks and outfitted Getty with his own custom "Elle" football hand towel, pink and black bicep band, and pink receiver gloves.

Then he sent his team onto the field with this advice, "When you dedicate a game to someone, you don't lose" :)

The players ran through the parent tunnel and tapped Elle's photo, once at the start of the game and again at halftime.

Getty played his heart out for Elle, scoring two touchdowns, two interceptions, a pick-six (that was called back by a back block penalty), and causing the opposing team to fumble—twice. Geez, Getty, why don't you step it up? ;)

After a victorious game, everyone got pink sugar cookies and signed Elle's poster for Getty's room

Rob and I stood with our arms wrapped around each other in awe. We could barely keep it together as we had watched those hard-hitting 7th grade boys gently tap her photo, wear her socks, and sign her poster as a gesture of kindness to Getty and our family and in honor of our Elle. As we left the field, Coach Wild's son gave us a card and a gift from his mom.

We don't take lightly this kind of support at such a painful, tender time in our family's history. All I have to say is, they'd better watch the sky, because we're praying hard for Heavenly Father to shower down blessings on them.