Goodbyes are Hard

Arent Ashleigh and I cute... James offered to redo the photo of us... I personally love this one b/c it is us.. Mama, my parents and James and Mindy were there to see us off. Miss You all

Oldies But Goodies

We were able to spend an afternoon with the kids I Nannied almost 4 years ago. It just so happens that a friend of mine,Elisabeth, took the job after me and thanks to the kids Elisabeth and I are now best friends. I will miss you guys. G & I can't wait to visit you over the holidays.

Last Day with the Williams & Ennis Families

What a wonderful experience it has been working with these two families... They were so wonderful to hire me last November knowing that I was leaving in the middle of June. Graciously enough rather than working for them they allowed me to work with them. I was able to get all the kids on a similar schedule and also work with the parents on having a nanny because before they asked me on they had never had a nanny before and they weren't quite sure how the whole process came together. It was a wonderful experience and although both they and I parted having a wonderful friendship, I can honestly say I never want to go back to regular nanny-ing if I can at all help it.

We can't wait to come visit you all in a couple of months and see how much you have changed!!!~hugs and kisses~

I know it sounds weird, but I think knowing that neither the family or I had major expectations and knowing that there was an end that had nothing to do with the family or really myself, made the goodbyes so wonderful. I was able to make sure they found someone that would be wonderful for the kids and get her all trained up before I left.

All I can say is if ever I need to go out there and make some extra moolah this is the way to do it, I am not quite sure what to call it but something that has to do with having to prepare the family for a nanny while focusing on getting the children into a wonderful routine and then training the new nanny all in a matter of 6-8 weeks that way its almost like a part time job.

G's last Day of Kindergarten

Last Day

for friends from Liza Jackson

for Mrs. James

for getting on and off the bus at Mama's

for going to school where her Aunt Ashleigh attends with her

for riding the bus with Aunt Ashleigh

for going to school in Fl

for going down the yellow hall to class

Last day with Travis, Coleman, Sarah, Holla & Aleah in the background.
Last day with Travis , Mikayla, Coleman, Zionna, Sarah, Layla, Holla and beside G is Sophia. Again Aleah in the background.

Last day with Travis and Coleman(as you can see they loved her, Coleman loved my camera more)

Last day with Mikayla

Last day with Zionna

Some Favorites:

pink and blue and red

chicken nuggets with ketchup

Sarah was her favorite friend in class

the mean girl on the bus, Zandrea was her best friend by the end of the year

play dough was her favorite thing to do at school

recess was awesome

you learned your phone number and address

you had a chore chart to complete once you got home from school: it had shower, hang up towel get dressed, put dirty clothes away, get out folder and start homework

you loved your bus ride
your favorite thing to do after school was go swimming with either Ashleigh or hunter

your favorite breakfast was pop tarts and cereal

you favorite lunch at school was hamburgers with ketchup

favorite snack at school was cookies

100Th day of school was great

loved being a car rider too!

thanksgiving celebration was fun

when you grow up you want to be a police officer, b/c police officers shoot with guns and have hand cuffs and mommy will be your nanny for you 3 kids

you loved making projects at school like gingerbread men and making puppets in art

in Spanish you learned numbers & colors and how to speak in Spanish : adios-goodbye, Ola-hello,

things that were popular : silly bands(shaped rubber bands that you wear on your wrist like a bracelet that you traded for other ones at school and on the bus)

your favorite song right now is all the wonderful horses(the yodeling christian CD)

some things you like to do when you are bored go outside to play, eat food, playing the computer and watching cartoon, and going swimming

you go to bed 800 and wake up at 700 for school

the school bus comes at 800, school starts at 830 & ends at 300, you get off the bus at 400

you collect pencils, silly bands, rocks, bookmarks

you love cats and dogs

your favorite outfit is the light pink and grey dress with hearts and your long jean skirt with your purple little pets shop shirt
every time I have asked you a question tonight you have responded with ....that's a good question... hahaha

Christmas with Gramma

Gramma was in town helping us pack up for our big move and she decided she would go ahead and have her Christmas with Gabrielle before she went home. I also felt Jonathan could open a gift and in turn I opened one too! I got his come cologne(see the cigar), he got me the aweful pink snuggie! I thought for a long time he was tricking me! Poor Jonathan! Maybe it'll keep us warm in our cold winters in California! ha!