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Happy 4th

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. We had a great time. We went over to my friend Jen's house and celebrated with her husband Dave and their two children. Fireworks are legal in Va (small ones) so we bought some fireworks and let them off. Maelee loves the "sprinklers" (sparklers) and Delana was scared of everything and clung to Brianna's lap until the very end Jen got her to hold a "sprinkler"

Old Friends are the Best Kinds of Friends

Those Pics Above are from 2004 and the ones below are 2008

The week we moved into our house in VA there was a sweet single mother that moved in right next to us in that same week. Her name is Mindy and she had a cute three year old daughter named Taylor. We were there about a week before Mindy asked me if I would be interested in caring for Taylor during the day while she worked (she is one of the best hair stylists). I said sure. So that is how I became the daycare lady of the neighborhood. Mindy and I became good friends, like family, and Taylor and Malee became best of friends!!! They moved in Oct 06, the same week Delana was born. She moved only 45 minutes away, but here in VA that seems so far. But We have only seen eachother twice since they moved.....not enough. Taylor called a few weeks ago and invited us over. We were so excited to see Taylor. I have missed her. It was very oddly a cold day....very strange for summer so the girls could not go swimming. Instead Mindy did Manicures and Pedicures for the girls. Taylor did not get one....she was not excited at all about doing nails....she is a huge TOMBOY. Even on our way there in the car Maelee asked if Taylor was boy. I asked her why she would say that. She said, "because she does not like to wear dresses and she loves the Power Rangers." I then explained to Maelee what a tomboy is. Anyways, we had a great day. I love Taylor so much and I have missed her and Mindy. My hair has also missed Mindy very much. I wanted to share some pics of Maelee and Taylor.

Happy Day

I had the most wonderful day today! I have been fighting with Dell for the last three days about a power cord. They kept misplacing my order. One day I even got a battery in the mail from them. I was so disappointed when I opened the box to find a battery instead of a powercord. I know have very strong opinions about how terrible Dells customer service is. I lost the power cord for my lap top two weeks ago. I have been miserable without it. My powercord finally came today. I spent the day busy trying to catch up with work past due......I have four books to make for the dance teacher and for parents that want to order a copy. Here is what I worked on tonight.....it is far from done, still need to do the journaling and add a few more pages for some other classes.



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I also had a great day hanging out with my buddy Natalie. She is a young woman from church. I met her four years ago when she was 12 and I have always enjoyed spending time with her. She has been helping me with the kids. She comes at 7am to make sure that she is here when the Delana wakes up to get her out of her crib. Then she makes the girls breakfast......I am very spoiled!!!! The girls were picked up at 10am by another lady at church but Natalie decided to stay and hang out with me. She has her drivers permit so I braved it and let her drive my van so we could go get some greasy drive through food (chick-fila). The funnest part was hunting for money....with my foot out I am out of work and we are trying to pinch every penny we can. So Natalie and I hunted all over the house for every quarter and dime we could find in the house. It took a few minutes to count out $9 at the drive through window but it was fun. And her driving was great! I was very impressed!!! She can drive miss broken leg daisy around anytime. this is Natalie: