Wednesday, April 23, 2008

“Who’Z anone – Who’Z not – My Crazy Family Tree”

Hi, Everyone!

For those of you who don’t know who I am, my name is Melissa Zanone and I am married to Bryan Zanone, seventh child of Joe and JoAnn Zanone….(whew)

Unfortunately, my first and last introduction to most of you was at the family reunion in 2003. I was pregnant at the time with our son, Mason, and we have since had a daughter, Charlotte. I have attached a picture so you can “meet” them…

Mason is curious about his “family”, so he and I decided to embark on a family project of making a published book of photographs entitled, “Who’Z anone – Who’Z not – My Crazy Family Tree”…

What we would like to ask is for each of you, your spouse, your children (and your pets if you like…) to provide one picture of each member of the family doing something “crazy”, (It can be a funny face, doing something fun or whatever you like… ) and another “say cheese” picture… be sure to add your nickname to the “crazy” pic and your full name to the normal pic. You can also add any comments or other additional information, if you want.

We will be putting it all together in a published book that can be purchased, should you also like a copy…

We want our children to “get to know” their family, even if it is through the medium of pictures. You know, the daddy’s – dad’s brother’s and sister’s kids and their kids stuff… (twice removed..)

That is why we ask for a normal pic as well as a crazy pic. We want to introduce them to the “real” you, the fun and energetic side of you!

I am mailing everyone that was in the family calendar, but not everyone had an e-mail address listed.. We would like to ask that you please let the members of your family whose e-mail was not listed in the calendar know about our project..

Since everyone is a descendant of Mimi & Pampa, the book will begin with them. (unfortunately we don’t have a pic of them doing something crazy! – OR DO WE???)

Not only will this introduce the “newer” generation to their family, it will be a fun in-between family reunions project and keepsake for all of us!

Feel free to send the pictures via e-mail or mail. Keep them at or around 300 dpi, if you can…If you have no idea WHAT I am talking about… then just send what you have and let us crazies figure out the rest…! If you prefer to send them by mail, we will be happy to send them back once we scan them in for the book.

If possible, we would like to have all the pictures in as soon as possible since Mason is eager to start the project.

Thanks in advance for everyone’s participation! It will be nice to introduce our children to all of you… Speaking of meeting, does anyone know when the next reunion is?

We look forward to seeing your CRAZY side and getting to know you better!

To Family!!!

Bryan & Melissa Zanone

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