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.

My Baby Sister

I can't even believe she is in Middle School now! Boy does the time fly!!!

Congrats Ash!

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

Miss G's Kindergarten Celebration

What an exciting year!! Miss G has gone from being able to write mommy, daddy, a couple of the kids from last years names and her own to being able to sound out the words and partially read. She has had an excellent year in spelling and math. Given our new circumstances and everything she has pressed on and done so well. We only managed to miss school the days we went to visit Jonathan during his basic training graduation in March. We are going to miss our Liza Jackson friends and staff(okay maybe I'll be missing them, I have only dreamed of my children going to this school since it opened~I practically had a party when I found out last spring she was accepted). Esp Mrs James who is also moving on to another school because of the military.

Isn't She a Doll?!?!

Happy Memorial Day!

This is my niece, Miss A. She is 2 1/2 and soooo very squeezable! Right!?!?!

Family Dues

Due to my BIG MOVE in just a matter of weeks, I have conned my siblings to get together for a mini photo session... Keep in mind there isn't really a photographer here, I ran set it up and just kept my fingers crossed that no one budged the buttons.... Hilariously we had about 30 frame-able photos and the other 600+ were just stuck in my digital album. We had such a wonderful time, Thank you Guys!!!

A Dear Childhood Friend

A dear friend from childhood & my teenager years came into town (not for great reasons~due to her grandfathers sudden turn for the worst and then his passing away). . She grew up with about half of my girlfriends(there were about 5 more whom showed up extremely late and therefore didn't end up in the group shot). I felt it was only fitting for her and her family(she has a brood of 4, 3 boys and 1 girl all under the age of 6) that we all get our kids together just like the good ole' days. We had such an enjoyable evening.

Thank you to all who were able to make it out... I know both she and I really appreciate it!

Easter

Thank you Lord for all that you have given me

The Tooth Fairy is FiNaLlY on Her Way to Our House!

Yes I actually asked her dentist last month if maybe something was wrong. She is one of the oldest students in her 1st grade class and to my knowledge the only one with all of her teeth. The dentist re-assured me that we are lucky(uh huh!) because the longer the baby teeth stay in the better off her big teeth will be, because they are protected under her gums! Boo Ya to all you 5 yr old 1st graders with no teeth! Well back to my normal self....

Do you see this wonderful fabulous-ness??? Well Crystal, from over at Little Bit Funky, saved the day. You see since we moved in with my grandmother last Jan(eagerly awaiting to join my husband after boot camp in June) I have managed to misplace her tooth pillow~that she has had since ..ummm almost birth~thanks Nana who always preps way ahead ;p, but no thanks to me I have managed to realize this as her tooth is getting ReAlLy wiggly... I emailed Crystal, picked our her favorite color in a Ho Ho Monster and then asked Crystal to overnight it. It arrived after school just in the neck of time. Conveniently enough our local $1 theater was playing "The Tooth Fairy Movie", we slid on over there , got pizza, a pitcher of soda and some nachos to celebrate her tooth.

I borrowed the idea from a website and then made some slight changes to authenticate it.... Feel free to "borrow" it as well....

Dear Gabrielle, April 6^th 2010

Hello there! Before I congratulate you on losing your very first tooth, let me introduce myself) after all, strangers shouldn't be leaving letters under your pillow, and if I introduce myself, then we won’t be strangers anymore! (Don’t worry I already know all about you- it’s all in my files at the Tooth Fairy Castle.)

My name is the Tooth Fairy – your parents might have told you about me when your tooth finally came out. My special job is to make sure that all good little children that put a tooth they lost under their pillow at night get a special surprise for when the y wake up early in the morning. My job keeps me very very busy- my goodness there’s a lot of children to visit every night, just like you that are losing their baby teeth left and right. But, I also like to relax during the day at my Tooth Fairy Castle, catching up on some of my Tooth Fairy paperwork and playing with my little doggie, Canine.

Enough about me – it’s your special day! So congratulations on losing your very first tooth, it sure didn’t want to come out of your mouth, did it?!?! Don’t worry I’ll be back to visit you again when you lose the next one! Keep up the brushing every morning and evening, don’t forget to rinse and spit, as well as floss and use mouth wash because I am always looking for nice shiny teeth.

Love

The Tooth Fairy

As you can tell she was very tired and yet wired all at the same time when we took these photos.

What Personalities!

These are some of Miss G's B.F.F.'s from birth.

It just so happens that their mother is one of my B.F.F.'s so they really didn't get a choice, aren't they goofy kids?

She is really going to miss them.

P.S. We also found out that day that Mr.L has a a crush on Miss G!!!