Alec, my sister, and I walked up the white cement steps leading to the beautiful home of Kristen Griffiths. It was about 7:30pm on a Wednesday night, we had planned on meeting with Kristen and delivering her Smiles Package for a couple of weeks now. We knocked on the door and Kri ...

Bonnie Jensen Bonnie is sixty years young and going strong, she just found out she had abdominal cancer this past June. Her daughter submitted the Smiles Application and said that the thing she loves to do the most is to make amazingly cool cards with her Cricut machine. She sho ...

Cambree Housley Cambree is a little two year old girl who has been battling B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia since she was 14 months old. With the support of her parents and her older twin sisters, she has been able to fight through some of the hardest things anyone on this e ...

James Hunsaker James is a 5 year old boy who has been battling his Lymphoblastic Leukemia for about a year now and has two years of treatment to go. It was really fun to shop for him because of our shared interests, such as Star Wars and Legos. When we showed up at his house he ...

Things have been busy for AJU Foundation lately. We have been having a lot of fun putting together these Smiles Packages and watching them put a smile on the faces of our recipients. We recently put together a Smiles package for a six year old girl named Arysta. Of course, we lov ...

Max Ellington Last week AJU foundation delivered a Smiles Package to Max, a 7-year-old who recently had a baseball size tumor removed from the base of his brain. Max’s scar from the surgery was the same as Alec’s. Fortunately for Max, the growth did not go into his spine. He wil ...

We have recently completed two more Smile's applications. Thank you, everyone, for your donations that are making this happen. Just in case you don't know, here is a reminder of what exactly a Smile's Application is. Someone will submit a Smile’s Application for a friend or a fam ...