A BIG GIVE for a deserving DIS family PLEASE READ

[MouseTriper]

If you'll PM me your email address I'll send you the passport pages and instructions. I'm embarassed to say how easy it is with the way the designers made it!

Aww thank you Kara!!!! I will PM you.

 

[MouseTriper]

I put Isabelle's journal in the post on Friday. It is coming surface mail from the UK so may be a while, but I would love to know when it arrives safely

Oh Joanne...I received your JOURNAL for Isabelle and it is absolutely DARLING!!!!! I love it!!! I really think Isabelle is going to have fun writing in it. What a wonderful way for her to keep all her memories alive. Thank you for including the sweet notes too. I can not wait for them to get all our basket goodies. You are a sweetie to have made this for her. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!

 

[MouseTriper]

stillsmiling04 - I received your adorable Mickey Mouse for the gift basket. It is so cute!!! Mickey Mouse was Levi's favorite and you and I both believe that this will be very special for Alicia too. I just sent you a PM but wanted to THANK YOU here too. You are also a sweetheart and I really can not thank you enough.

ALL OF YOU ARE JUST AMAZING!!!!!!

 

[tinkerbell 766]

Glad to hear the journal arrived safely. It took a lot less time than I thought it would!! So glad you think Isabelle will enjoy it. It's a honour to do something, however small, which may, for an instant bring a smile to their faces. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of that!!!

 

[MouseTriper]

Glad to hear the journal arrived safely. It took a lot less time than I thought it would!! So glad you think Isabelle will enjoy it. It's a honour to do something, however small, which may, for an instant bring a smile to their faces. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of that!!!

Awwww you are so sweet. YES I know she will LOVE IT!!!! Thank YOU for being a part of this!!!!!!

 

[taekwondo mom]

Just checking for updates

 

[newtodis]

Hey Beth-Are you back from MI yet?? How was the trip? Can't wait to see what everyone's sent for the basket and what it all looks like when it's put together.

 

[Debbie6221]

Hi..I sent a WDW coloring book and castle jibbit. I hope it arrived. EVERYONE else is doing such thoughtful, wonderful things.You guys are awesome! I hope my small token is useful!

 

[MouseTriper]

Just checking for updates

Hi Veronica....sorry I have been missing for a few days!!! I just went through everything last night and took pictures to post!!! I know you got my PM message about all the wonderful things you sent but I wanted to mention it here too.....!!! THANK YOU SO much for everything!!! I know Isabelle is going to love it all!!!! You are a sweetie for sure!!!

Hey Beth-Are you back from MI yet?? How was the trip? Can't wait to see what everyone's sent for the basket and what it all looks like when it's put together.

Hi...yes, we are back from Michigan and we have a wonderful time. I already miss being out there and all my family!!!! Mackinaw Island was soooo pretty. I wish we had more time to spend there.

Anyway, I just took a bunch of pictures last night of everything I have received and am trying to upload them now. Wait until you see EVERYTHING!!! It is amazing!!!!!!!

Hi..I sent a WDW coloring book and castle jibbit. I hope it arrived. EVERYONE else is doing such thoughtful, wonderful things.You guys are awesome! I hope my small token is useful!

Hi Debbie..yes I did receive the AWESOME WDW Coloring Book and castle jibbit you sent for Isabelle. That coloring book is awesome, I had to hide it from my 4 yr old DD as she wanted to color in it. Hahaha. It was so sweet of you to send these things, thank you so very much!!!

 

[MouseTriper]

I also wanted to send out a THANK YOU to tinkerbell/pixie and MCAZER for the wonderful goodies they sent as well. I know I sent you both a PM but wanted to post another thank you here as well. You are both so sweet and Isabelle will love everything, I just know it!!! Thank you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Debbie6221]

Hi Debbie..yes I did receive the AWESOME WDW Coloring Book and castle jibbit you sent for Isabelle. That coloring book is awesome, I had to hide it from my 4 yr old DD as she wanted to color in it. Hahaha. It was so sweet of you to send these things, thank you so very much!!!

Glad you had a great trip!!!
Again thanks for doing all that you are here.
I am glad you liked it.

 

[taekwondo mom]

Thanks For the update .. I can't wait to see pictures of the basket . Thank you for putting it together .

Do you need any help with Shipping cost ?

 

[future_imagineer819]

I was wondering if there was anything else that hadn't been covered that you were hoping to give Isabelle or the family. I'm at work *shhh* so I had to skim over most of it. I just found this thread and my heart goes out to them. It is so wonderful how people help others out that they've never met face to face. I love this community. Anyway let me know, pm or post for me here. I'd love to help out.

 

[MouseTriper]

Okay, I finally have pictures to share!!! They are not the best pictures but you can definitely see just how generous and caring EVERYONE truly is....it just blows my mind how thoughtful and wonderful all of you are!!! Thank you sooo much for making this happen!!! I wish I could give each of you a big hug and thank you in person!!!! I can not wait to hear how surprised the Winkler family is going to be, especially little Isabelle. I am sooo excited!!!!

Now....I wanted to share some more exciting news with you. Betsy of Memories by Betsy Gift Baskets in Celebration, Florida has offered to put the gift basket together and deliver it to the Winkler's resort on their arrival day FREE of charge!!! Lynn (newtodis) had initially sent me a PM telling me about Betsy and offered to pay for the delivery. However, when Betsy heard the Winkler's story and learned about what we are doing for this family she graciously offered to assemble the basket and deliver it for us, no charge!! Thank you Lynn and Betsy (BetsyinFl) for helping me out here. I had planned on putting the basket together myself but then it would have to be delivered as a BIG box and they would have had to open the box first. I love the idea that the basket will be delivered and they will immediately be able to see all the goodies!!! Haha. Anyway, as you can tell by the pictures below, I will be shipping one GIANT box of goodies to Betsy in the next day or so. I am sure Betsy will take some pictures for us once she has the basket together. I still need to talk to her and see whether all this stuff is going to fit in one basket or not...I am personally thinking not. Hahahaha....but that is a good thing right???? LOL.

We have such a wonderful variety of things including stuffed animals, jewelry, stickers, books, crayons, notepads, journals, autograph book, passport, card games, glow stick bracelets and etc, Disney Dollars, jibbitz, bouncy balls, beach balls, lip gloss, pens, pencils, colored pencils, a camera, bubbles, sew pillows, window decorations, magnet activities, keychains, Washable Coloring book, Color Wonder, etc etc.... like I said LOTS of stuff!!!!

Okay for the pictures now....everything would NOT fit on my dining room table so I used a couple of tables.....YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!

(I did take close-up shots for the big table if anyone would like to see them let me know and I will upload them to Photobucket. Thanks).

 

[MouseTriper]

Glad you had a great trip!!!
Again thanks for doing all that you are here.
I am glad you liked it.

Thank you so much Debbie!!!

Thanks For the update .. I can't wait to see pictures of the basket . Thank you for putting it together .

Do you need any help with Shipping cost ?

Thank you Veronica!! I can't wait until they get the basket!!! I am so excited about it. Aww thank you for offering to help with the shipping cost, but you have already contributed enough!!!! I couldn't ask you to do that too. I really can't thank you enough!

I was wondering if there was anything else that hadn't been covered that you were hoping to give Isabelle or the family. I'm at work *shhh* so I had to skim over most of it. I just found this thread and my heart goes out to them. It is so wonderful how people help others out that they've never met face to face. I love this community. Anyway let me know, pm or post for me here. I'd love to help out.

Hi and welcome. Thank you for your sweet post. It truly is amazing how so many people have come forward to help the Winklers without even knowing them. I have never met them either but Alicia and I talk almost daily and have become great friends. I can't wait to meet her one day soon!!! My heart just went out to this family when I first read about Levi and I knew I had to figure out something to do. I know this is relatively small in the whole scheme of things but I believe it will put a smile on their faces and that will make it all worth it.

As you can see from the pictures I posted we have plenty for the gift basket. The only thing I was thinking that might be cool to add would be some kind of Mickey Mouse ears or Disney hat or something like that. Feel free to PM me though if you want to do something. You are so sweet to offer as well. Hugs to ya!

 

[Plantlady]

Wow, thanks for posting photos!

They are going to be quite excited, to get such a cool cool basket!

And, how cool is that, that the basket will be assembled and delivered free of charge! It really puts your faith in humanity again.

 

[taekwondo mom]

Thank You for sharing pictures of everything , That's wonderful that Betsy is going to assemble & deliver the basket .

Thank You for organizing this

 

[BetsyinFL]

HERE IT IS! What a pleasure to participate in such a worthy project! The amount of items included was overwhelming and very touching. I'm SURE the Winkler family will be really pleased! The basket is practically bursting, so I apologize if you can't see your items. But they're all in there!! Thanks again for letting me help!

 

[taekwondo mom]

HERE IT IS! What a pleasure to participate in such a worthy project! The amount of items included was overwhelming and very touching. I'm SURE the Winkler family will be really pleased! The basket is practically bursting, so I apologize if you can't see your items. But they're all in there!! Thanks again for letting me help!

The basket looks Great, Thanks for posting a picture

 

[newtodis]

Beth-glad to see you're back and had a good trip! We leave on Tuesday for MI. Thanks so much for all of the time, energy and money you've put into this. I've got a box of snacks that I'm going to ship down to their resort since they couldn't be included in the basket.

Betsy-the basket looks wonderful (as always!!). I like that you can't see everything...it'll give the kids something to dig into to find all the prizes! THANK YOU so much for doing such a wonderfull thing for this special family.

Everyone else-thank you all so much for everyone's donations to the basket. I cannot imagine seeing everyone's face when they get to their room and get their basket! What a wonderful community here on the DIS!

Can't wait for pictures to be posted once they get back and hear how great the trip is.