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Post by Cbean on Mar 16, 2005 19:42:03 GMT -5
Hey all! Wrblack and AshleysMomAnnette and I are forming a little mini-gethering. Looks like we've got it set for 3/26, 1:30pm at the Freehold Raceway Mall. If that works for anyone else, please speak up and join us!
Meanwhile, we're hoping to put together something bigger when the weather gets warmer. Sooo, maybe we can get NJ, NY, PA and CT involved and pick a central location? Perhaps we could do the Great Adventure thing? Let's all put our thinkin' caps on, ok?
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Post by ashleysmom on Mar 16, 2005 21:07:15 GMT -5
I am very excited about meeting everyone. Anybody that comes from far away is welcome to stay at our home if needed.
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Post by wrblack on Mar 17, 2005 18:32:41 GMT -5
Thanks for posting up, Christine. My, but haven't you been busy lately? We just got back from a St. Patrick's Day visit to CHOP, pre-op visit with Anesthesiology. They had corned beef and cabbage in the cafeteria. Charlie and I liked it. Yep, me and Charlie and Lynn and at least 2 of the other kids hope to meet you and Annette and your families at Freehold on Easter Saturday. Looks like the Bunny stops working the day before. Anyone want info, like what stores, and directions for that mall, it's available at www.freeholdracewaymall.com/shopping/default.asp?file=properties/details.asp?id=FRMQuite fortuitously, our boys already had their picture taken with a Bunny Bob
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Post by marisa on Mar 18, 2005 7:16:29 GMT -5
Bob, what an adorable picture!! We are taking the kids on Monday. I wish I didn't have so much to do to prepare for Easter or I would definitely meet you guys. I am bummed I am gonna miss you I checked mapquest and it would take me just over an hour to get there. Maybe next time
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Post by christie on Mar 18, 2005 22:37:20 GMT -5
I am in Northern Jersey and would be very interested if you do a GREAT ADVENTURE gathering A few years back its where I met Annette and Susan for the first time ever Good Times were had by ALL Depending on the date you pick, count me in for that one. Although you may only meet Chris on the run as he just LOVES doing the big rides now, LOL CC ~
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Post by Cbean on Mar 19, 2005 9:08:58 GMT -5
We definately want to get something bigger planned to include more, so everyone who might be interested, get your calendars and let's start getting dates! Great Adventure was definately a place we were considering! Good excuse to get me back in the animal safari so I can pet the giraffes again!
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Post by momofrussell on Mar 20, 2005 21:30:25 GMT -5
***sniff sniff**** I am envious... I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do NJ so I could meet you all and see my bestest bestest friend in the whole world.. whom I have known since I was 9... she just moved to NJ (we both grew up in CA) last Summer with her DH and two girls... They live in Millville... I tried to find a way to get out there with Regan so we could vacation with her and her girls.. but we just can't this year.... Have fun for me... and wave for me if you drive through Millville! A.
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Post by ashleysmom on Mar 23, 2005 0:39:44 GMT -5
Just wanted to let you all know I plan on being at the mall saturday, however if I do not show up it's because my darling children got me sick. If you look at the time it is almost 1am I have my last child up sick tonight. Hopefully Mom and Dad here will not get it. I have had ZERO slep in the last 3 days. Seems as soon as I fall asleep around 9pm one would start. I assume if I'm going to get it, it will happen long before the weekend. This bug seemed to only last 12 hrs. VERY strange. I'm still looking forward to seeing you. Annette
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Post by wrblack on Mar 23, 2005 11:13:34 GMT -5
Oh wow, Annette, what a bummer. So, are we supposed to wish that you get sick soon so you'll be well by Saturday? I think NOT, though today would be a good day to crawl back into bed, cold rain all day maybe changing to wet snow tonight. I hope that we're done passing bugs around for awhile. Need to keep Charlie well until next Friday. Thankfully, we're all reasonably well right now. Good thing, wouldn't want to be sharing any bugs with Christine and Emily. Believe I'll hope you manage to stay well and will also hope your kids will ease up and let you get some sleep. Keep us posted. Trust you've got Lynn's cell phone number. Oh, and I enjoyed your photos over on that thread A. started. I've got to stop picking on details but couldn't help but notice in photo of Ashley just a few hours old looked like there was a copy of Babies with Down Syndrome at your bedside, already looking pretty well thumbed through. Guess you were prepared. Am sending good health vibes through the rain towards you. -- Bob
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Post by ashleysmom on Mar 23, 2005 13:13:07 GMT -5
Bob, I noticed the book after I posted the picture to. NOWAY was I ever prepared for the ds dx. My lovely hubby picked it up at Barnes and Nobles right after her birth. We did not know she had ds until 5 sec. after her head came out..It was a SHOCK to us. I'm sure we'll be there saturday. if any of us feel the slightest bit ill we will not expose you we'll just sit home .
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Post by Cbean on Mar 23, 2005 18:53:39 GMT -5
Great...watch we'll all be sick. My darling son is coming down with something...think we'll be visiting the doc tomorrow. Let's all make a pact to stay well ok? We're so close to meeting! Annette, you better not get sick hun, we've been talking about this since I first signed on to this site! Sending healthy vibes!
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Post by wrblack on Mar 25, 2005 14:18:19 GMT -5
Okay, Christine and Annette, hope you and yours are all reasonably well. I'm a little disappointed nobody else in the neighborhood wanted to make an Easter Saturday trip to the mall. But we're planning to be there. Hope to be near the carousel by 1:30. And hope it won't be too crowded. Email me if you can't make it. That way we won't be looking for you. Give that cell number a call if you have trouble finding us, though me and my crowd tend to stick out even in a crowd, will probably be bumping into people with a Maclaren side by side stroller. See ya, I hope, Bob
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Post by ashleysmom on Mar 25, 2005 14:29:16 GMT -5
On the phone with Cbean now we both plan to be there..1:30 it is.
Please email us with all the cell phone number
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Post by wrblack on Mar 26, 2005 20:17:58 GMT -5
Okay, I actually tried to load one of these photos into Photo Album and eventually got some error message. Here are, I hope, 10 photos from meeting Annette and her kids and Christine and her husband and kids today: Annette and her girls Ashley Charlie Me and Charlie Christine, AKA Cbean Emily Noelle Emily and her dad Group shot Christine and Annette on the carousel Charlie and me on the carousel -- Bob
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Post by MB on Mar 26, 2005 22:05:34 GMT -5
These pictures are the best!!!! Oh my goodness, what a great looking bunch of kids and adults. I hope you guys had the time of your lives!
MB
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