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Toy Drive

See weekly letter to Aaron below in separate post...

The toy drive was a great success (as the picture to the left shows). We would like to thank all of you that participated. It warms our hearts that Aaron was in your thoughts and on your hearts this holiday season. We know there will be a lot of kids that will LOVE all the new things. We wanted to let you all see what we collected! Hopefully next year we'll have the second annual toy drive in Aaron's Memory. Here's the list:


A Baby Gym *this was from mommy and daddy*
4 Fuzzy posters
2 Twenty Question games
13 Teething rings
5 rattles
a rattle/teether
2 mini-magnadoodles
16 matchbox cars
4 hot wheels
High School Musical DVD
Cars DVD
Little Rascals DVD
Haunted Mansion DVD
Air Buddies DVD
Nanny McFee DVD
Barnyard DVD
Teen Titans for Game Cube
3 pairs of socks
1 pair of slippers
8 lip glosses
Stack of rings
Elmo see and say
Latch hook kit
hand held Tetris game
Yahtzee
Sorry
Little People Airplane
Baby Einstein pop up book
Leap from puzzle
Winnie the Pooh Bear
16 coloring books
2 sticker books
1 word find
2 crayola art frames paper stacks
8 packs of stickers (including 1 Hello Kitty - I have a feeling that was picked just for Drummer)
10 - 8 packs of Crayola Crayons
1 pack glitter crayons
3 packs large crayons
2 packs anti roll crayons
1 pack washable crayons
4 packs washable markers
So it was definitely a lot and things for all age groups. We thank you again from the bottom of our hearts not only for the toy drive but for everything in 2006! We love you all!
Drummer and DrummerWife


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Anonymous said…
Great job on the toy drive! It was alot of fun shopping with the kids and talking about what Aaron would like or what he would like other children to have as a gift. What a wonderful, sure-to-be-annual event in Aaron's memory.

Love,
Roxie
11:12 AM
Anonymous said…
What a wonderful way to honor your son Aaron's memory. How beautiful! I myself had a preemie born 6 weeks premature the day after x-mas. He is now 4 yrs old. We honor him by volunteering with the March of Dimes, we are an ambassador family. It's something to look into if you dont do this already :)

Katie
10:39 AM
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