Hawaii 2nd Anniversary Trip...

I understand from Jackie that Mom mistakenly thinks Russell and I are paying for their whole Anniversary trip to Hawaii, since 'I told' Daddy in the note while in the hospital. By they way, I realize now I should have talked that over with all of you before I told Daddy about the trip, but I was just writing the note and was thinking of things he needs to look forward too and to get healthier. Sorry about that :(
What do you all feel is the best way to tell M&D the trip is not a gift just from R&ME. Should I say from the six of us, and let them find out at the party it's from everyone. But then they will probably be telling people about the trip the 6 of us are doing for them, then the guest might NOT want to donate more thinking it's already taken care of! So how much, is too much, to tell them. I didn't say anything much about it because I didn't want to say too much. So I guess my not saying too much led them to think it was a gift from R&ME. So I would appricate advice on this, I don't want them telling people for the rest of the year that the trip is from R&ME.
That all sounds confusing, I hope it makes sense :)
I have confirmed an exchange week at a timeshare. The reason I did it already was, I was on the phone with them booking a timeshare for our Cancun trip and I was asking about Hawaii in December, they right away said, that's probably not gonna happen, December is Hawaii's busiest month, they are usually booked a year or two or three in advance. But they searched ALL the islands for the ENTIRE months of NOV and DEC. And found one resort with one week Dec 5 -12 that someone had cancelled that same day. So I thought I should confirm it since otherwise we might have to get a hotel which would cost 7x as much and wouldn't have a kitchen. I'll have to double check but I think the whole week was only $199. So the major expenses we have to try to cover from gifts is the airline flights there and back, the inter-island flights and the car rentals or taxis plus any money for food, entertainment, sight-seeing etc.
Hope that explains everything.
By the way, Bella's last day with her cast was yesterday and she is doing great, I'm trying to get her to take it easy for one more week. We will have her 5th birthday cake with the Hodges, M&D and Cheryl on Friday!

Mailing Out 'Save The Date' Postcards...

Just to Keep you posted! I'll be mailing out the Postcards tomorrow. I figured I do it before the postage goes up again on Monday :) I'm not mailing any to us, I think we all have the date marked :) Also look over the list to add friends and family of yours that know mom and dad. I noticed Word and Carol don't have an address and what about Ed's parents? What about Jenny and Jose? Now maybe we don't need to send them all a 'save the date' if we know they won't be coming, but we could send them all an invitation later on. So keep adding to the list!!

That's all for tonight! Carole

Cheryl Big News!!!!

Finally I got all the necessary paperwork approved for the CareerStep Medical Transcriptionist Program. I'm having so much fun with words like: jejunostomy, salpingectomy, hydrosalpinx, hysterosalpingogram, organomegaly, etc., etc., etc.

AnniversaryWishes.com

Hey, Check out this site, maybe it would be good for Mom and Dad’s Anniv. Obviously none of the older folks on the list would use it but all the others might ???? We have recently attended two weddings that have used the sister site—honeymoonwishes.com- and it’s pretty cool. If you check out the samples you’ll see the guests can actually pick to give you money for dinner, for your flight, for entertainment etc then you just get the cash.

It wouldn't actually cost us/M&D anything. You can charge the service fee to the guests. That is what both times we have used it, the bride and groom did.

Any they give you a website page to use so, if the guests would go there, we could tell the story of Hawaii being the last of the 50 states, etc.

Just an idea! Check it out and tell me what you think!