Lizzie's big event with the Osmonds

Lizzie had a couple of very exciting days with the Osmond family.  On Thursday, May 12, Merrill Osmond (Justin's father) held a benefit concert for the Olive Osmond Hearing Foundation.  It was a beautiful, fun filled evening.  We started off with a VIP dinner at 5:30 pm where the local radio host MC'd the dinner.  Tenille and Lizzie had to go up front and Justin introduced Lizzie as one of the benefactors for hearing aids.  It was announced that they had a raised enough money to sponsor 250 more children with hearing aids!  Wow, that was just incredible.  Then off to the concert that night where we all had tickets down in front of the stage - Dennis, Jill, Tracy, Chelsey, Alyssa and Grant.  The concert was very impressive and Merrill has a great voice.  They showed video's of the Osmond family through the years with a couple of pictures of Lizzie and the other 2 children that also received hearing aids. (The picture of Lizzie filled up the entire screen on the stage).  The highlight of the evening was when Bear World (a sponsor of the event) brought out a baby cub and the kids all got to pet and see the bear while they were on stage.  They auctioned off naming the new cub to the audience and it went for $1,000 - just for a name!  I have a few pictures, but it was really dark at the Colonial so my pictures weren't very good.  On Saturday, they held a marathon race with over 500 runners (they were only expecting around 300 runners - it was great turn out)  Some of the runner's came and asked to have their pictures taken with "Lizzie" - I guess that makes her a "celebrity" at 18 months only.

 Tenille, Lizzie and Merrill Osmond at the VIP Dinner

 Justin Osmond, Lizzie and Tenille on stage at the Concert.

Tenille, Lizzie, Bear World Bear and the other hearing aid recipients - notice that each of the kids also received gold metals. which are hanging around their necks.

Justin Osmond and his Father Merrill Osmond at the concert.