A Day At the Farm

This past Saturday I took my niece and nephew, Kate and Steven, to the farm at Thanksgiving point. We had a great time!! It was extra fun because they were having the "Baby Animal Birthday!" so they had all the babies out where you could see them up close, and touch and feed them!! It was really windy, but the kids were troopers, and even insisted on standing in line for 25 min. for the pony ride!!! But it was totally worth it!! I don't know that I've ever seen Katie smile so big for so long!!! They loved riding the horses, and feeding them too!! I cant believe that feeding the big horses didn't scare the kids half to death!!! We had a wonderful time! I love getting to spend time with just me and my nieces and nephews! Plus I love being able to give my brother and sister some time off!!

Snapping!!

So lately the girls have been obsessed with Mary Poppins!! Which I really dont mind, because I love that movie myself, and I feel flattered when they call me Mary Poppins! But to the real point of this post, Jade wanted to learn how to snap! She thought it was so cool on the show and she just couldnt figure it out! Well, I taught her how! It was really great to see her little face light up every time she got a good loud snap! I even got some pictures of her doing it!!

Fun Hair!

So Jade and I have decided to try some fun new things with her hair. It is long enough now that we can do some fun stuff, and even Ivy is getting in on the fun!!

I'll put more pics up as we do new styles!!

First Picnic

A couple weeks ago, the weather was so nice that we just had to get outside!! We decided that we would try a new park that I found close to work, only after a lot of persuading! "I think I like our old park best""does it have a slide like our old park" Jade had a lot to say on the matter til I told her that the new park had 5 slides, lots of swings, and tons of space and trees!! That all won her over!! Not only did we decide to try the new park, we decided to make it a picnic!! The first one of the year!! It was so much fun! Jade is really active, and loves to run run run all the time. She quickly found some boys to play tag with, and boy did she love showing off how fast she could run!! Ivy is a bit more tentative. She's a little scared to do things on her own just now, and the only way I could get her to go down the slide was to go with her. So I handed over the camera to my budding photographer Jade, and we went down the slide twice!! That's all I could get her to do!! And every time I tried to take a picture of her she would run the other way!! Little stinker!! It was such a fun day, and we were all definitely worn out!! I know its been a great day when my girls have that sweaty grassy smell!! I love it!!

Chuck E Cheese Cont....

So here are the pictures I promised you! You have obviously seen pictures of my girls before, but the other 2 little ones are Joclyn, 4, and Aiyana, 3, the little girls my friend Alle used to watch. We've gone places with them before, but sadly Alle is no longer working with them, so I dont think we'll be getting to play with them again.

My Computer!!

So I just wanted to tell everyone how excited I am! I have the most awesome big brother who is totally computer savvy! He built me my own computer!! I'm way excited to finally have my own, with my own settings, and my own stuff, in my own ROOM!!! I'm just waiting for the wireless card to arrive in the mail, and I'll be totally psyched!!! oh, AND he got me a 19inch lcd monitor!!! yeah!!!

Where a kid can be a kid!

So this past Wednesday I took the girls to Chuck E Cheese!  We met up with a friend of mine who is also a nanny and has 2 girls near the same ages of mine.  We had such a blast!!  It was great to get out of the house and the girls loved playing the games and having pizza for lunch!  They thought that was super awesome!! Ivy's favorite thing to do is drive, so we got her on the moving little car rides, but that wasn't enough for her!  So we put her on my lap and let her play a real car racing game! I pushed the gas and break and she steered, and you know, she wasn't half bad!! I'm not saying I'd let her drive my car, but for a 2 yr old she did pretty darn good! Jade had a blast trying to play skee ball, but it was a little terrifying for anyone near by!! It took a few minutes to explain that you roll the ball up the ramp, not throw it!! but at least now we know she could be a great softball pitcher!!!  We got tons of pictures, but I haven't had time to put them on the computer yet, so I'll put them up here in a couple days!! 

My little angels!!

These are my girls!! The little which is Ivy and super girl is Jade! They are so much fun and I love playing with them every day! I think I have the most rewarding job in the world! I absolutely love helping them learn and grow!! Watching them make new memories and figure things out for the first time is amazing!!

New Blog!!

So, people have been telling me for a while now that I should get a blog! Well, here you go! I have one!!! I'll periodically post pics and let you know whats up in my life! Right now, I don't really have any pics, so I'll just give you a quick over view of how my life is going, and what I'm up to these days!
These days I'm living at home again, with the parental units, who I love dearly, and the little bro, Adam. Although, I'm not sure you could actually say I'm living there! I am rarely home except to sleep or to change and run off somewhere else!!
I am still a nanny, but in November I started with a new family! The Sanfords. They are fantastic and I love all of them so much!! I have 2 little girls, Jade, 5, and Ivy, 2. They are so beautiful, sweet, smart, funny, etc. Jade is in preschool right now, and will start Kindergarten in the fall. She is such a smart girl! She is already reading really well, and I couldn't be prouder of her! She is also in Karate, and has gymnastics twice a week and is the most coordinated girl I've ever seen!! In fact today for the first time she did a perfect hand stand on the beam!! and it wasn't the short practice ones either!! It was on the full size one!! She amazes me every day!! Ivy is so adorable!!! She has the deepest brown eyes I have ever seen!! She too is really smart girl! She turned 2 in January and even before then knew all her letters and all their sounds and could identify each one out of a grouping!! They both love music and we sing and dance around the house on a daily basis. They really love it when I play songs on the piano for them to dance too! I could go on for pages on how amazing they are! I'm sure you'll be seeing tons of pics of them on here and most of my posts will be about how amazing they are!! The parents are Amy and Scott. Scott is just hilarious, a huge tease. He takes pleasure in making fun of me and my randomness. Amy is amazing. I can honestly say, she is becoming one of my closest friends. I look up to her in so many ways. We've gotten along so well that right from the start of me working for them she was continually late to work because we just couldn't stop talking! I love this family so much and hope to be with them for years to come!
Now, I know at least my sisters want an update on the dating scene, but for those of you who don't care, skip this section!! Right now I'm just taking it easy, no specific boys in mind. Just having fun and doing whatever I please!! Last week I went on a date with a really cute guy to an amazing concert and had such a blast!! But I think I'm seeing friend potential only on this one! Mostly right now I'm just hanging out with my amazing group of friends! I realized at the end of last month that I met most of this group 3 years ago!!! I cant believe its been that long, and at the same time it feels so much longer!! Then I think about the fact that it's been 4 yrs since I graduated high school!!! WOW!!!! Time sure flies!! So that's all I'm really up to these days, just having fun and doing my thing!!! Hope you enjoyed your short trip into my life!!! I'll see ya later!!!