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Twin boys.
Each born 4 months premature.
Each about the size of a Beanie Baby.
Each 18 ounces, less than some soda bottles.
Nine years later ...
Both are completely healthy. 
A miracle.
No, 2 miracles. 

              JAKE             

         199 days      

          in the NICU      

JOSH

207 days

in the NICU


CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS OF JAKE & JOSH DESIGNING

THE MARCH OF DIMES-THEMED NO. 11 NASCAR DRIVEN BY DENNY HAMLIN AT TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

(THANKS, FEDEX AND JOE GIBBS RACING!)

OUR STORY
Jake & Josh Aron
were born
May 11, 2002,
at Medical City Hospital.
Josh had a
heart operation
on his fourth day.
Two days later,
Jake had
a bowel operation
that doctors didn't expect him to survive. 
Despite all that could've gone wrong,
BOTH beat every aspect 
of their extreme  prematurity.
More details
can be found here.
You also can follow the unfolding story
through e-mails.
Or, you can read
the story written
by proud dad Jaime Aron
that ran on the AP wire for Father's Day, 2008. The story has since been honored as one of the year's best AP feature stories.

Then,

come back and

sign, view our guestbook.

THE SECRET

TO OUR SUCCESS

When our boys were on the road to recovery, we knew we owed a debt of gratitude ... but,
to who?
In 2005, we learned
it was the 
The organization
that wiped out polio is now working to give all babies a healthy start.
We've worked to raise awareness, as well as raising money.
We've had a lot of fun, too, from passing out our
to spending a year as Dallas' Ambassador Family, and especially through the annual walk.
MARCH
FOR
BABIES
Since 2005, our
has raised $44,153,
annually ranking 
among the
top Family Teams 
in D/FW:
2010: $3,642

TUNES FOR
SICK TEENS
Check out our newest
project,
a program
launched by
Jake & Josh's 
big brother, Zac.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY LINKS

 

Check out our part in the 2010 March for Babies national promotional video.

 

Another video version of our story used to promote a March of Dimes event.

 

 This was Jake singing to 25,000 folks before the 2009 March for Babies event.

Check out how our little guy fared

 

APME (Associated Press Managing Editors) chose the 2-part, first-person story about our family as one of the five best feature stories on the AP wire in 2008.

(Aug. 3, 2009)


Click here for video ... or here for still pics of Jake's debut

peformance at NorthPark Mall, when his buddy David Chicken

invited him on stage for a duet of "Doggy Walk"

(May 16, 2009)

 

Click here to see how we celebrated J&J's 7th birthday

(May 10 and 11, 2009)

 

Click here for photos and details of Jake's concert that was filmed for

the next DVD from Emmy Award-winning children's performer David Chicken

then ...

click here for the video, featuring a nice intro from Zac

(March 22, 2009)

 

Many things that used to be

on our home page - and more! - can now be accessed

through our online Photo Collection hosted by Picasa,

and our YouTube video collection.

 

This page was last updated Saturday, October 08, 2011 08:40:53 PM