Thank You EWING for Everything You Did For My Family!

     
           I am so excited to share with you a company that not only has amazing products but a company that is 100% involved in the community! A couple months ago I came a across a Facebook post that Autism Speaks posted about a company called EWING Irrigation who had close to 500 people participate in the P.F. Chang's Rock n Roll Marathon & half marathon. They were running to raise money for Autism Speaks. I immediately started to follow their company on Facebook. In late April I sent the company a letter sharing with them that I think it is amazing that they have a company who all gets together and supports a cause that will help change a child's a life. I shared how autism has effected my life. I shared some of Brendan's story with them and how much he LOVES being outside! I also explained to them that my husband works two jobs at 70 hours a week and that I would love nothing more than for him to spend his only day off once a week with his family and not outside doing yard work. I was inquiring about having them put artificial grass in our backyard. This is something I wanted to do for my husband and especially for Brendan. Within about 15 minutes of sending them my inquiry I got a response saying that they would love to help my family out! They offered to give us there cost on the green and they would do the installation for free. I was in complete shock! I was of course in tears and couldn't believe that they would offer to do something like this! You just don't hear of company's doing things like this anymore. I had decided to keep this a surprise from my husband and give it to him as a father's day gift/birthday gift since those were only 2 day's apart. He was so excited when he opened his gift and realized he was getting artificial grass. This truly meant that we could focus and enjoy more time as a family.

                                                                        BEFORE

           The regional manager Jake Ray had contacted me and said he was the one who was going to be handling the installation of our grass. We set up a time for him to come over and take a look at our backyard and do some measuring of the area we were putting the grass. Jake arrived at the house with Jeramy Webb who was a Ewing Service Professional from their Tucson location . I introduced them to Brendan and then we headed to the backyard. Jeramy who to me looked so young said to me, "I really enjoyed reading your blog. You have a lot of great information in it." I was honestly a little taken back because I thought what would a young man find so interesting about a blog with a child who had autism. It completely warmed my heart that my blog was spreading the awareness across all ages of people. He then says to me,"I sent your blog to Playfield USA the company that manufactures our grass and they have decided to donate your grass to you." I looked at Jeramy and Jake and immediately start to cry. There were no words that I could even form at that time. I really couldn't believe that this was happening. I express how grateful I was to Jake and he said,"you need to thank Jeramy he is the one that submitted your blog." I turned and gave Jeramy a big hug and of course continued to cry.  They both came inside and actually spend time with Brendan. They were amazed on how Brendan was communicating with his PECS(pictures) to get his wants and needs. It was super special that they asked questions and wanted to learn more about autism.
           July 22nd was here and it was the day the Ewing crew arrived to install the grass. I had the pleasure of meeting Roy Mosel the Manager of Ewing Scottsdale, Brian Lemieux Ewing Service Professional, Kyle Ellsworth Videographer with Ewing and of course Jake Ray and Jeramy Webb were also here. They had asked me prior if they could video the installation process because they wanted to do a "how to video" on installing the grass. Of course I said yes. These poor guys were outside working so hard in what ended up to be the hottest day of the year so far at 113 degrees outside. I just kept feeding them food and drinks to keep them alive in this heat. Brendan was having his therapy inside as he normally does except that he just kept asking to go outside. He wanted to go out and help the guys! lol When the guys were finished I asked them how they work in this heat all the time and they all said, "we don't we all work inside in the stores. We just came out to do your house." So if I already didn't feel special enough then they tell me that and I wanted to hug each one of them.

                                                                       AFTER

         My grass turned out better than I could of ever imagined it. Ewing is by far the most amazing company. Every single staff member that I have had the pleasure to work with as been generous, helpful and so nice. If any of you are wanting to get artificial grass or anything done to your yard, you or your landscaper can get materials and supplies at Ewing! They will not disappoint you. They will WOW you in every way possible!
    From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for everything you did for my family! Thank you for your all your support with Autism. I hope your company inspires other company's to get this involved in their community.

     Here is the information on the grass that was installed. The turf is Ewing Premium Synthetic (EPS) Turf www.epsturf.com and the manufacture is Playfield USA.  Also here is Ewing Irrigations website www. ewing1.com. Please visit their Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ewingirrigation. They have locations all over Arizona and all over the United States.

 I also want to give a special thanks to Doug Fleming from Fleming Sprinkler/Landscape for doing all the prep work prior to our grass going in!