4th Annual Angel Trinity Christmas

Yes, it's that time of year again, can you believe it? This year I've been very busy being back in school full time. I didn't get a chance to get anything really big organized for our Annual Angel Trinity Christmas. We've decided to organize another toy drive for the kids in the hospital. We will be giving to the kids at the Children's Recovery Center. For those of you who haven't heard of the Children's Recovery Center, in short, it's a long term facility for chronically ill children. Trinity lived there for 14 months of her life...many kids live there for years and years. You can read more about the Children's Recovery Center if you go to their website www.pedisubacute.com
For those of you who would like to donate to this year's Angel Trinity Christmas, here's a list of toys they need there. All toys donated must be brand new and still in their packages.

Ideas for infants:
Crib mobiles, decor, floor gyms, wagons, etc.

Ideas for toddlers:
small scooters, activity tables, pop-up toys, learning toys, sensory/texture toys (ie. play-doh, sand/water tables), etc.


Ideas for older kids:
Scooters, puzzles, games, art easels, physical therapy type trampolines, walkie-talkies, etc.

Please keep in mind that most of these kids are stuck in beds and/or cribs due to their severe medical conditions. So any other toys that can pre-occupy them in their beds would be great too. (ie. Age appropriate DVD's, headphones w/cd players, books, age appropriate video games, etc). Brand new boy/girl clothing from infant to teen, would be a good gift to donate as well.

We will be collecting your donated items from now til Saturday December 18th. We will take all your donated gifts to the hospitalized kiddos that following week, just before christmas.

You can donate in several ways, purchase the toys yourself and bring them to our home, order the toys on-line and have them shipped to our home, send us gift cards to Targets, Walmarts, or Toys R Us, and we'll go purchase the toys, or you could send checks (payable to "Angel Trinity Christmas") and we'll go purchase the toys. If you plan to just donate a gift card or money, please keep in mind that we will need to go shopping, so try to send those earlier, rather than later. The holiday season gets very busy with shoppers, and local stores start running out of the needed items.

The Adams Family
242 Charles Avenue
Manteca, CA 95336

Contact us via comments on this blog or our email is adamsfamily97@yahoo.com, and spred the word. Get your families, co-workers, friends, neighbors, church, etc. involved. We love helping the beautiful children at the Children's Recovery Center, and we know Trinity loves watching us "Pay it forward" in her honor.

Thank you for doing what you can to help us every year to do something special in honor of Trinity. It means the world to us to have Trinity remembered in such special ways.We love you baby girl...Our little angel in Heaven

Princess Shoes

Look what I found
A pink pair of two
glittery, princess
your favorite shoes

A print of your foot
embedded inside,
Do you see it?
It's in plain sight.

I still see your toes
poking out at the end
I still see you walk,
when playing with friends

Your favorite shoes,
you wore all the time,
matching skirt & hair do,
your smile would shine.

These beautiful shoes
are now 3 years old.
No new shoes have come
these shoes have grown cold

I did not know
when I bought this pair,
that they'd be your last
pair of shoes to wear.

I did not know
A princess, Size 5
would be the ones
that cause ache inside

I miss your feet
in your pretty pink pair
So danty, so small
your skin, so fair

They'll never age
Shoes Frozen in time.
Your pretty pink pair
You loved and called "Mine"

Love Mommy & Daddy

We love you Trinity...3 Years ago we kissed you goodbye...we miss you everyday sweet baby girl!

The money for CRC

Here's the latest update for the huge fundraiser we did for the Children's Recovery Center (CRC). Our goal of $6000 finally happened in March just after I finished the huge garage sale and after Macaroni Grill finished the fundraiser they were doing. On Saturday we wrote out of check for the money we have, and brought it to CRC. The rest of the money donated is coming directly from Macaroni Grill to CRC. But at least we were able to drop off the majority of the money so they can finally get started on this amazing room.Here's the room they are transforming into the multisensory "Snoezlen Room".We have also decided to donate Trinity's little walker. The kids at CRC will definately be able to benefit from using Trin's walker. This little walker was a huge key to finally helping Trinity learn to walk all by herselfHere's a picture of Trinity, Fall 2006, walking to her preschool class...As time goes on, we will continue keeping all of you posted on this amazing project. Thank you all again so much for your donations in helping us reach our goal. Doing things like this, in honor of our precious Trinity, means the world to us.

GREAT NEWS!!!!

During the fall of 2009, we started the 3rd Annual Angel Trinity Christmas. We chose to fund raise $6000 for the Children's Recovery Center (CRC), to help build a snoezlen room (a multi-sensory development room) for the chronically ill kids. By the end of 2009, with donations from people during the holiday season, we raised just over $3000. So exciting, but yet, only half way to our goal.

After the new year started, I came up with other ideas to help fund raise money. I work at Macaroni Grill and spoke to the management about fundraising money through the restaurant. For an entire month, we had our guests color hearts for a $1 donation towards CRC. We posted the hearts up at the restaurant to show off the beautiful artwork from our guests. We also did a "JEANS DAY" where all Macaroni Grill employee's wore their jeans to work for a donation of $5 each. In total, Macaroni Grill raise just over $1500!!!! AMAZING!!!!!

My last fundraising idea was to do a Charity Garage Sale. Throughout January and February, I collected donated items from several people. Not everyone has the money to donate, especially in this economy, but everyone has something in there home they no longer need, want, or use...and can get rid of. Hundreds of items were donated. With the help of my wonderful mother and hubby, we did a 3-day Charity Garage Sale at our home. Here's my mom helping me sort through all the itemsIt was a lot of work to organize all the donated items, but we slowly worked through everything and got the garage set upAfter 3 days of selling most everything that was donated, along with selling my mom's homemade crescent rolls (THANK YOU MOM!!!), we cleaned out the garage and took the rest of the stuff to goodwill.It's a nice feeling to park the cars back in the garageFrom all the sales we did at the 3-Day Charity Garage sale, we made just over $2000!!!! For a grand total of....drum roll please....just over $6500 raised for the Children's Recovery Center!!!

Thank you to all of you who donated money, donated time to help, and donated items to sell. There is no possible way we could have raised the money we did for CRC without all of you helping us out! Once again, Trinity's amazing legacy lives on throughout our hearts as we continue doing what we can to "Pay it Forward" and help improve the lives of the chronically ill children at CRC. I'll post up pics as the money is given to CRC, along with the stages of the snoezlen room being built.

WE LOVE YOU FOREVER, TRINITY MELINDA ADAMS!!!! YOU ARE REMEMBERED IN OUR HEARTS EVERY DAY!!!!!

Charity Garage Sale March 12-14

Our Charity Garage Sale will take place March 12-14th (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). I'm still waiting for more donations, but overall my garage is just about set up and ready for the big 3-day garage sale. Here are just a few pics of what I've got set up so far...

Strollers, High Chairs, and other baby stuffHats, Costumes, and Dress up clothingBackpacks, hand bags, and pursesShoes (Mens, Woman, and kids)Stuft Animals and ToysBooks (children, adults, cookbooks)Decorative Knick-Knacks and Bath stuffDVD's and Movies (children, adults, religious)Active Lifestyles (excersize, camping, and yard)
Lots of Kitchen StuffElectronics (both old and new)TV's...both old and new (thanks to the donations from my family)Scrapbooking items and craftsHoliday Decorations


Not pictured are larger pieces of furniture like desks, lamps, a baby crib, book case, dresser, etc. So if you're still wanting to donate items, please contact me and get your items to my house as soon as possible. If you are an avid garage sale shopper or know of someone who is, come to our 3-day Charity Garage Sale. Remember 100% of all money made at this garage sale is going to the chronically ill children at the Children's Recovery Center. Spread the word! I'm advertising this garage sale in our local paper and on craigslist.com as well. For anyone who wants to volunteer their time to come help with the garage sale, I would love to have you come join me. THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO'VE DONATED and THANK YOU TO MY MOM WHO HELPED ME GET MY GARAGE SET UP!!!!