Finamore Family

Went to visit family for birthdays & holiday, since everyone is out of state. To the kids surprise they found birthday missions waiting for them. We just got in last night, from the the first week in December & straight to school today We will give a more detailed update over the weekend, just letting you know we received!!!!! Thank you!!

We hope everyones holiday month is going well. I will do a more detailed list over the weekend. For those who might be checking. We came back from being away for family & birthdays in the 1rst part of December. We came back to an assortment of different size boxes. With doing birthday missions also. Everyone has received but SHADOW our black lab. Lucky enough for us the other gifts are still unopened & she didn't get into them. Our receives are for Hope, Will, William Jr. & Issabella All our missions went out 12-3 & hopefully you have received them or very soon. Thanks to everyone & we will post soon

Went to post that we sent out our birthday mission(couple of weeks ago). Also to wish our mission, Dark Elf a happy Birthday. What a great surprise to us, that our mission was received & well liked. It's always great to do something for someone else but it's even better when you know they like it..... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PS. We don't ship out of USA often, I hope it isn't true that you needed to pay something for your mission?? That should have been done when we paid to ship it their? SORRY!

Good morning shopping cachers. Dave do you still need someone to switch a mission with? We have not completed our shopping & can change if someone else needed too. this is so much fun again, I know it's alot of work for you so thanks for taking it on. Hope from the Finamore Family

We are excited our missions are here working on our list, it is fun to give as to receive! email sent & received mission names- received Will - Dad Hope - Mom William- 11 yr. boy Issabella -11 yr girl Shadow- 7 month black lab puppy No wish list, just waiting for the surprise that each of us will receive

I hate to rush this time of the year. {BUT} Half my ordered coins are in for the Santa Mission & now I can't wait to find out who we have to start the packaging. Giving is as much fun as receiving......... We hope everyone else is having fun too! Hope

Happy Birthday to all! As a birthday surprise I signed my two kids up for the birthday mission. William Jr. & Issabella are turning 11 on December 12th. 1- email sent YES 2- name received YES, research being done 3- mission sent not yet 4- mission received; 5- outgoing mission received; Hope from the Finamore Family

Wonderful to be doing this again. Thanks so much for doing all this work inadvance. We have started looking & buying special containers already. The kids have December birthdays too, so this time is filled with lots of joy & money....... Hope from the Finamore Family 1. Participating : 1-William Age 11 Boy 2-Issabella Age 11 girl 3-Hope ??? Mom 4-Will Firefighter Dad If we are doing pets, we have a new pup we are training to geocache. She loves car rides & the hikes. 5- 6 month old black lab we rescued. 2- not yet 3-not yet 4-not yet

US TOO! We loved being involved in secret Santa last year & our 1rst year caching. We loved the shopping as well as the receiving. My son has loved staying pen pals with the beautiful daughter who started this post. As for myself I don't know how to go about starting this project. I am more then willing to work with someone or someones to make this project fun for all. Last year "Butterfly Lady" did a wonderful job! Only 73 days left until the big guy gets here. So to get this back & forth across the seas we should start something soon. PLEASE some takers for this Christmas & geocaching loving family. Hope from the Finamore Family

Well Hi everyone on the Santa mission. What great missions everyone seems to have received. Wanted to update our list so if anyone is wondering. The luck of the Irish should have Queenie B not looking out her window to much longer. The post office told us by the end of the week. Since this was close to home we held on to it a little longer so it would be for Christmas & not Thanksgiving.(sorry! was trying to Christmassy not grinchy) The same goes for a very busy adult in Canada. We have received all of our missions & they have been fantastic. I was holding off writing on them because we did some detective work on two & sent them an email so we could announce how wonderful their missions were. They were not sent out with names or cards just towns. So either our detective work was wrong or they want to play Secret Santa & keep it that way. If you sent it & did not get our email, we would love to hear from you & thank you properly. We have received all 3 of our missions. How some of you are waiting until Christmas that is alot of patience We did not last that long it was way to exciting for kids & adults as well. Tomorrow we have double birthdays & a long weekend. So when we come back I will write down the directions of posting pictures here & see if I can try to make heads or tail of it. Computers are one of my downfalls. Which brings me around to the moderator who let me know I posted wrong the other day when I tried to tell everyone their packages were mailed. Have a wonderful weekend & may the Christmas spirit stay bright in your hearts while you are waiting on all the long lines & the traffic for miles.

Finamore Family Update 1 child mission mailed to Sweden today 11-15 (postoffice said 7-10days) 1 child mission going 2 states over waiting???? 1 adult mission going to Canada waiting? (postoffice said 3-5days) Received 1 Adult mission; waited over night then after a rained mob event. Kids were dissapointed & they just had to open it, me too. TWO BEAUTIFUL Belgium geocoins !!!!!! Will post pictures when the rest come in. Happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas tooooooo

3 mission email sent 1 kid mission age 10 Issabella Received name 10-27 2 kid mission age 10 William Received name 10-27 Candy treats & wrapping paper too, it's all in our head to send off to you! 3 adult mission age lol Hope Received name 10-31 Today is Halloween but all I can think of is what should I send to you! Guess Who? This is exciting I hope you like it too! Thank you so very much head elf Lady Butterfly, you deserve something special so I will think of you in a prayer.

Thank you again for planning this Christmas mission. The kids & of course myself too, were so excited to get the kids missions today. We have been working on what to put into our special packages of course besides a geocoin. I know you have alot of work ahead of you still for sending out the adult missions. I will try to wait patiently with sugar plums dancing in my head & wrapping paper waiting to be wrapped. Kind people like you make the season more of a joy. HAPPY MISSIONS TO ALL & ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

There is no photo's to see, but we have to say that these souind so beautiful, with me being a firefighter I would love to have a couple, copper is our favorite metal. We will def.be interested. Barry of sweetlife This is something very close to our hearts. We definately would be interested in ordering this coin. We can Thank you for thinking of this coin & being a fellow firefighter. The Finamore Familynever forget that day so hopefully it will never happen again. We need to protect our family, friends & our CHILDREN!

There is no photo's to see, but we have to say that these souind so beautiful, with me being a firefighter I would love to have a couple, copper is our favorite metal. We will def.be interested. Barry of sweetlife This is something very close to our hearts. We definately would be interested in ordering this coin. We can never forget that day so hopefully it will never happen again. We need to protect our family, friends & our CHILDREN! Thank you for thinking of this coin & being a fellow firefighter. The Finamore Family

The kids read about this, this morning. They are really excited! They count down the Christmas days from January so this is definately for them/us. Getting gifts any time of the year is fun BUT in Christmas paper it's even better. Thank you for starting this mission & letting us join in the fun. Finamore Family