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Today was a great day. The girls were out of school and we decided to head out and try to raise money for the foundation. The girls each had lines to say and practiced all last night. The response was great!! People were so surprised that they knew so much about the foundation, and the way they spoke about it was far beyond their years!!! I am so proud of them...just had to make a note of it...Take care and thanks for reading!! Echo

Raffle Winnings!!

These are the raffle prizes that can be won by purchasing raffle tickets through the site, or if you know me, then you can get them from me in person. American Girl Fashion Show® Spring 2007 Raffle Raffle Prizes (1 each) Bitty Twin Roll ‘n’ Go Collection Bitty Twin Doll Set (Brunette/Blonde) Denim Outfit for each doll Two Roll ‘n’ Go Stripes Sets(1-orange/1-lime) The Bitty Twins On the Go Book Side- By- Side Stroller Doll- Sleeptime Dress up Set & Book Doll-Dreamtime Dress-Up Set & Book New! Bitty Twins Hair Care Kit (Retail Value $217) BITTY BABY Doll plus Starter Collection Bitty Baby Doll Set Storage Chest-Quilt-Gown-Booties Bonnet-Shirt-Bib-Bloomers-Rattle-Bottles of pretend milk and juice Cozy Cardigan Set Baby’s Crib Baby’s Bedding Bitty Bunch Mobile (Retail Value $198) Molly and Emily Best Friends Collection Molly Doll & Accessories Set Meet Molly paperback Emily Doll & Accessories Set Brave Emily paperback 2 Doll Stands 2 Doll Brushes (Retail Value $241) Molly’s Mirrored Chifforobe Chiffarobe Garment bag, shoe caddy, laundry bag Molly Doll, Book & Accessories Doll Brush Doll Stand (Retail Value $298) Just Like You Doll plus Coconut Just Like You Doll (GT27H) Coconut the pup Sparkle, Spirit, Style Book I Like Your Style Accessories for Doll Curlicue Daybed Butterfly Bedding Satin Floral PJ set for doll Doll Brush Doll Stand (Retail Value $263) GIRL OF THE YEAR Starter Collection ? Girl of the Year doll Dog in Training Ranch outfit for doll Tie top and shorts for doll Straw hat for doll Jackson the horse Tack Box Doll Stand Doll Brush (Retail Value $261)

The sponsor letter!!!

To benefit: Aubrey Rose Foundation ♥ 4480 Oakville Dr. ♥ Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 ♥ 513.265.5801 ♥ www.aubreyrose.org In Spring, 2007, the Aubrey Rose Foundation will host the American Girl Fashion Show; a delightfully entertaining, multi-generational fundraising event. Proceeds from this event will fund programs and services to help families with children facing life-threatening illnesses. The American Girl Fashion Show is coming the Oscar Center in Cincinnati, April 20th- 22nd. The fashion show provides an entertaining and educational look at how generations of American girls have used clothing to express their own unique styles and personalities. Over 300 local girls will model historical fashion- from daywear and sleepwear to special occasion clothing – like popular Multi-cultural American Girl dolls Felicity, Josefina, Kirsten, Addy, Samantha, Kit and Molly might have worn. Other featured fashions include American Girl’s line of fun, contemporary casual wear for older girls and sweet dress-like-your-doll outfits from Bitty Baby. Over 3,000 guests are expected to enjoy this enchanting tea party and educational walk through history where many generations will experience the true traditions of the American Girl Doll! The Aubrey Rose Foundation was founded because of a very happy baby who endured so much including a successful heart and double lung transplant at 18 months of age. Aubrey died suddenly and unexpectedly, two days short of her third birthday in November, 2000. We are carrying on her spirit by putting smiles on children’s faces at a time when they most need help smiling and creating memories that will last forever! The Aubrey Rose Foundation: • Helps families with financial need due to medical expenses of their children. • Awards educational scholarships. • Hosts an annual holiday party and gift giving for families at Children’s Hospital. • Hosts themed dinner parties at the Ronald McDonald House quarterly. • Developed “Healing the World’s Hearts” in 2004 along with help from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, local surgeons and corporate support to provide “simple” heart procedures to needy children in the U.S. and developing countries around the world. We say “simple” heart procedures because these are surgeries which we can perform in the U.S. that can SAVE A CHILD’S LIFE enabling them to live a healthy and productive life without follow-up cardiac procedures. *Elena, a 3-year old little girl from Russia received a life-saving heart surgery in November thanks to the Healing the World’s Hearts Program and returned home in time for Christmas! She is expected to live a vibrant, healthy life with no follow-up procedures required! Approximately $50,000 was covered by the Aubrey Rose Foundation. Our 501(C)3 Foundation is run by all volunteers so every cent of every dollar we raise goes toward helping children and their families. Please find the American Girl sponsorship opportunity attached for your consideration. Thank you in advance for your support! American Girl Fashion Show Model Model’s Name ________________________ Age____________________ Parent’s Name ________________________ Phone __________________ ♥
Please read and help if you can Ok people!!! I need some help. It is that time again; my girls are getting ready to do the Fashion Show for American Girl, to benefit the Aubrey Rose Foundation. I have never asked for help like this in the past, it just came to me that the girls may be able to raise more money if I try to advertise more for them. There are many ways for people to help. If you can help in any way, please let me know. The money goes to a good cause, and it is a tax deduction for you if you choose to do so. You may check out everything on the web site www.aubreyrose.org. Ok the ways to help my girls out. 1. Donate money. I prefer checks; they are easier to keep together. You can do cash, MO, checks, or credit cards. 2. You may send an item for a silent auction. The item must be valued at $100 or more. This can be a gift certificate or a craft item. 3. Buy an ad in the program. These ads are going to be viewed by at least 2000 people in one weekend. If you can help in any way possible, please let me know. Go to the site see all that the foundation does. Look at my blogs and see some of the things that I have posted about it. I volunteer as well, I help out at the dinners for the Ronald McDonald house, attend most of the functions throughout the year, and I also try to bring awareness to the organization, to show all that they have done, and all that they are trying to do. Ok I understand that many people that will read this live outside the Tri-State area. If you want to help by sending a donation then let me know and I will give you an address to mail it to and how you need to address the check/mo or where to go to do it by credit. We do have until then end of March to collect the money, and I will be posting this over and over again until then, just incase someone missed it the first hundred times I posted it….LOL I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to read this, and helping if you can. My girls love doing this. They take great pride in helping to raise money for this foundation. In the past they have done it on their own, they have gotten my cell and called some of my friends and family members themselves to get money, I thought I would try and help them more this year, so they can try and meet their goal. In the past, they have made close to $1000. This year they are going to try to double it. You have to love them for their big hearts. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Echo, Bre, Peanut, and Bear.

Aubrey Rose

AUBREY ROSE HOLLENKAMP'S STORY --> --> Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp was born in Cincinnati on November 12, 1997, six weeks premature. When she was born, the obstetrician said that she has an angel watching out for her because her placenta was tearing away and seconds later, she could have bled to death. This is how Aubrey came into the world! It was a fight right from the start! It was soon discovered that she had two holes in her heart. Surgery repaired this at 10 weeks of age. At 6 months she got a clean bill of health, but at 9 months, Aubrey was diagnosed with a condition called "Scimitar Syndrome". This is an extremely rare situation where two of her pulmonary veins traveled to her liver instead of to her lungs. We went to the Cleveland Clinic for this repair, which included two more open-heart surgeries, a tricuspid valve replacement and a permanent pacemaker. Aubrey was in the hospital over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years of 1998. We came home the middle of January, 1999, on oxygen and a feeding tube. Not only did Aubrey have Scimitar Syndrome; she also had right pulmonary vein stenosis, a condition where her pulmonary veins were closing. Aubrey took a turn for the worse on May 4, 1999, and we were life-flighted to Philadelphia on May 7 for a heart and double lung transplant. We were on the waiting list for 13 days. Aubrey's lungs started hemorrhaging and she was put on ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) which is advanced life support on the morning of May 19, 1999. That afternoon, miraculously, there were organs available and they were a perfect match. It was a very rough road to recovery. Aubrey was in the hospital for 4 months. Through everything that Aubrey has been through, she always kept a smile on her face! Every 3 months thereafter, we went back to Philadelphia for biopsies and checkups. At a year after transplant, her doctor found that Aubrey's right lung was twisted behind her heart and crushing her left lung and Aubrey needed another surgery. The doctors had never seen this before. Aubrey was always teaching the doctors, nurses and her parents a lesson. So she had unexpected surgery a few days later to have a lobe of her new lung cut off. Aubrey was loving life once she recovered from this surgery and we were getting prepared to go back to Philadelphia for her doctors visit. We could not wait for the doctors in Philadelphia to see how well Aubrey was doing. We had the shock of our lives on November 10, at 12:20 a.m., Aubrey passed away suddenly. The autopsy results showed that Aubrey had chronic lung rejection, and unfortunately, there would have been nothing that we could have done about this condition had we known. God took Aubrey quickly and painlessly. Doctor's Letter Her heart and lungs were my focus. They were what connected us; Aubrey the patient, me the transplant physician. I had heard of Aubrey shortly after my arrival in Cincinnati in 1999. She had miraculously received and survived a heart-lung transplant in Philadelphia and was coming back home to face what I predicted would be months of struggles with rejection, infection and hospitalizations. Instead, what faced me that first postop clinic visit and what faced me each subsequent visit, was a little angel. The electrocardiograms, echo cardiograms, and heart biopsies were nearly perfect. Her lungs were a bit more problematic, needing an extra surgery to correct adhesions and an extra boost of immuno suppression to correct a worrisome chest x-ray. No matter what we put her through, she remained a little angel. No tears, no fears, always smiles. Eyes that saw everything and gave reassurance to both me and her mother that life was good. her fingers, soft, pink, and unscarred, pointed me to see and feel everything that she did. She was a good sharer. It was remarkable how healthy Aubrey was and how good she felt. That only made her sudden death a greater shock. I learned a lot from Aubrey. The doctors, nurses and our associates at Children's Hospital also learned a lot. Everyone misses her visits, everyone misses her family. Taking care of her was easy. She was the perfect patient. Not being able to take care of her is the hard part. Dr. Robert Spicer Transplant Cardiologist Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Please read!!!

Hey this is for mainly my friends from the Tri-State area...Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Most know that I do charity work for a local non profit organization out of Cinci. Next month, on the 10th of November, the 6th anual Dance for the Heart of It, dinner and dance is being held at The Syndicate. This is a great time to get dressed up and have a wonderful time!!! The money goes for a great cause and includes dinner, drinks, live entertainment by Soul Pocket, and auctions!!! For more information please check out the web site at www.aubreyrose.org, or you can click the link on my web page. If you are not able to come at least check out the upcoming events...something may interest you. Thanks so much!!!........Echo From the site... This is the 6th Anniversary of Aubrey's death and we appreciate everyone holding a special place in their hearts for this date. We want to make this night a celebration of Aubrey's life so thank you so much for keeping this date special. It's time to unwind! Come join a night of great food, live music and dancing! Each year, over five hundred people attend to dance, meet new people and have a great time all to help children who have life-threatening medical conditions. If you're not practicing your upcoming Holiday party dance moves, perhaps you'll do your own little shake when you win donated items from our silent auction! Guaranteed fun for ALL! We've got great plans for you! Each purchased ticket includes a scrumptious meal provided by The Syndicate, Hor's d'oeuvres, a chocolate fountain, live music by Soul Pocket Band (a BIG hit at our previous Dinner Dances), silent and live auctions, and a jewelry raffle. Be the top bidder on our wonderful silent auction items and much much more! We have several convenient methods available to reserve your tickets by ordering online, via mail, phone or at the door. We also have reserved seating available for your groups of 10 or more when purchased together. Have the time of your life in support of The Aubrey Rose Foundation!
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