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I took yesterday off of work to go buy presents for Jennifer's children. I will be going over Jennifer's house tomorrow @ 11AM to deliver her all the stuff collected by the generous people who donated. Anyone that wants to come is more than welcome. PM me and I will send you her address and directions. If you're going post it here so I can get an idea of how many people will be there.

Thanks to all that helped. A few of you really dissappointed me that I didn't see your names on the list. It still isn't too late to join in.

PayPal   Hondatrx450racer@aol.com

You know I'm in..... 8)

Take some pics. Even a video would be good if the news doesn't show up, you could send them the story. Its a little to far for me to drive or I would be there. Merry Christmas to everyone who has taken part in making this happen.

I'll have my camera, and if my camcorder still works......

I have my camera crew ready. My wife on the still shots and Turboderf on the video camera. I will post them all up on Sunday when I get home.

Thanks Again!!!! Great Job guys and gals.....I wish I could be there.

Great job ;)

Oh for christ's sake will you hurry up and fill us in? How did it go? what did the total cash plus gifts plus,services come to?
I'm anxious to hear all about it.

I just got home from jennifers and the kids was shocked we had a good time the news was there TV 4 at 11:00 tonight and thats miami I would like to thanks everyone that was the the board .....HO HO HO turbo santa .....also a big thanks to Big Daddy,Budman for stopping  by

I almost forgot TRX450R_Racer  Big thanks to Frank you are the man for jumping in and handling this  :) ;D ;)

Well done gentleman!

Come on Frank.............what was the total????

I'm resizing the pictures and uploading the videos/ They will be up soon. I hope!

Here are the presents wrapped and ready to go.

The first picture is the man that started it all Budman (Mike).

The second one is everyone that was there including Jennifer and her daughter (Sierra). Her son (Sterling) was to shy to come out of his room. It was an hour before he would come out. It took Turboderf (Fred) 1/2 hour to talk him down from upstairs.

The reporter showed up when we were carrying in everything.

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My wife Didn't forget about the cats. She got them a bag of food. That isn't my wife carrying it. That is Turboderf's daughter.

After a short descussion about weather of not the children should open the gifts, we decided to let them have at it. Sterling still wasn't coming downstairs.

Sierra opened a couple of gifts then we tried again to get Sterling down from upstairs.

I had gotten something for Jennifer also.

Besides the Christmas gifts we had a few more surprises for her. I gave them to her while we were still trying to coax Sterling down out of his bed room.

Here is what else we had. Plus some cash.

Finally here comes Fred downstairs with Sterling

That's AWESOME Frank. Thanks Mike for starting the thread.

They both finished opening the gifts.

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Here is the very happy family after all the excitement was over.

Thanks to Budman for taking the time to post the story!

Thanks to all who participated and made it happen!

Thanks to Turboderf for getting Sterling downstairs!

It wouldn't have been the same not to be able to see his smiling face opening the gifts.
                           GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!  

I will post a link to the videos when they are uploaded.

That is awesome guys!

What was the total raised?

The ATV community is an awsome group. Merry Christmas Jennifer and to your kids. Merry Christmas to all that made this possible.

wow man now that is truly AWESOME! i'm sure it made them feel so much better and they are so much happier now!! great job ;D

Words can't decribe it.  I forgot

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone

We sent a late donation.  I did not see this thread0.

Talk to the moderators when somthing like this comes up and see if we can get an email sent to all the members.

I hope they all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!

Mike

Well done guys!!!!!!!

I saw this asked several times before the day of presenting her the check or funds.Why can't this be answered now? I think the people and businesses who gave would like to see what it ended up being.

Here is alink to the CBS story

http://cbs4.com/video/?id=44960@wfor.dayport.com

Great job guys

Wow what a great feeling being there..... Great job frank

         thats  awasome !!!  thanks  frank   fred  and budman  for your time      this is  a great thing   we all did   .   remember  what comes around  goes around .    merry christmas    ;D     

  I wish I could've seen the families reaction. You guys did an awesome job. It makes me appreciate what I have , even if it's not a whole lot.

  I would like to offer setting up a huge yard sale somewhere and donating all the funds to the family.

Great Job to all.  Amazing thing you all did.

Ive got 3 houses Im trying to sell in 2 in West Palm 1 in Lake Worth all in well traveled garage sale haven areas. I will donate the space & all the advertisement signs etc. Even if you want to store some stuff before the sale.

JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN~!

WOW, that's all I can say. Thank you for all the leg work you guys did on this project. I feel happy that I was able to help a little

You guys are all awsome her family will be having a great Christmas!

I see a lot of presents thats good in all but I thought this was about keeping Jennifer's house from going into forecloser. Playing Santa good in all but presents won't pay the mortgage. I know I'll get bashed for saying that but thats my 2 cents.

To be honest, I was thinking the same thing. Furthermore, I am quite curious as to why numerous posts asking the total amount of money raised have been ignored.

I think that Frank spent all that time to scam us out of our money so he could keep a portion of the proceeds for his greedy little self

trx,

I am handling that for her and I am confident we've got it covered.   ;)

Behind the scene workers. Thanks Anoriginal.

I don't know Frank personally but I'm doubting he took any of the money. I thought it was supposed to be a cash donation as well. Even though it's nice the kids got all those presents it won't do them any good if they don't have a place to put them.

I suggest the next time we as a forum decide to do something like this we set up a bank acct. like you see when somebody loses a home to fire or a child get's hurt and the family needs money. That way it's all accounted for and there's no questions about who got what.

Let's please not get any nastier on this forum. I would hate to think jennifer would see this after all the good that was given last week.

Donnie

My internet was down at the house last night. I'm hopefully going to receive a new modem in the mail today.

It started as just trying to give her children a good Christmas after thier family have a very difficult year. The response I received went way beyond that. I did what I thought was important to Jennifer.

If anyone that was involved has any question about anything that happened PM me. I refuse to turn this into a negative post.

Thanks again to everyone that helped!

I'm not trying to be negative and am very glas I was a part of this. But I also thought that it was to try and save their home. I would have liked to seen the news media showing you give her a check. If some companies gave gifts then that would have been a bonus to them. Read the first two post on the original thread and you will see where people would have taken it this way.

http://www.atvflorida.com/forum/index.php/topic,29606.0.html

Ok thats great, I remember a while back you saying something about that but haven't heard anything about her mortgage lately. Keep us fools posted!!! ;)

                  Thanks again to everyone that helped!

I also thought the collection was to save the home and was also curious as to how much was donated but wasn't going to ask because it was such a noble idea. I do feel better knowing that Anoriginal is following through on his promise to help save the home and knowing that makes me glad they recieved presents from everyones money. I am still curious as to how much was collected but it doesn't matter if I know or not.It was an awesome idea and it was a success. That family has been through allot and that includes the children. They deserved a break. Great job everyone. Merry Christmas.

Anyone that was invovled has any questions email me.

Hondatrx450racer@aol.com.