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Graduation

Jessica — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:43:24 +0000

After years of hard work, blood, sweat & tears– I graduated!!! Thanks to everyone who made it to the ceremony, it was a very memorable time! And thanks to everyone for all of the Happy Graduation wishes– cards, phone calls, etc. it made the day so special!

For those of you that weren’t able to make it, here are some pictures from graduation.

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A new beginning

Jessica — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:06:50 +0000

In order to share the events & pictures from my 6-week long vacation (well 2 days shy of 6 weeks) a new blog is in order! I figured hey after a 6-week long vacation everything is a new beginning…right?

I’m currently sitting at the gate at Denver International Airport waiting to board my plane home. Just picture me sitting in the waiting area with my laptop on my lap, my carry-on luggage beside me & my head phones in my ears listening to my itunes trying desperately to drowned out the “increased security threat” announcements for the billionth time. As if I would forget to not mess with any unattended luggage. I mean honestly….as if my luggage isn’t enough to deal with.

Please stay tuned for many pictures and stories that are to come……

(Btw I imported all the old posts from my old blog to this one, so if you ever want to look at old posts/pictures they are here!)

August in September

Jessica — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:13:00 +0000

Since it’s about half way through Sept. I figured it’d be fitting to post the update that I promised last time. (Needless to say, I’ve been kinda busy)

Wyatt’s Visit:

Trip to Cypress Gardens…
Wyatt & his friend Luke (the little boy I nanny for)
Dada teaching Wyatt to ride his new bike
Ever seen Barney’s Imagination Island Movie? Well Wyatt saw my book sitting on the table & picked it up to read…he told me it was his “Imagination Island Book”

Someone loves play-do

Wyatt & I made cookies to bring to Tante @ her school. I guess he got tired of frosting the cookie & decided to frost his arm!Showing off his master pieces…
before devoring them!

Dada & Wyatt watching Elmo videos on YouTube
Tickle Fest!

I ♥ this picture. I had to put it up…I think it’s hilarious how he’s looking @ me!HAHA I’m sure he’s thinking my Aunt Jessica is silly!teehehe

Guess he figured he’d join in on the fun!! WOOHOO!

Wyatt wearing his “cheer-thing” on his head. It’s a USF Bulls pompom that he got when we visited my school while he was there.
Aunt Jessica had to do it too!
Playing hide-n-seek outside

Cruisin’ in his mustangCheckin the engine…what a boy!
Running from Tante while playing hide-n-seek

Andrew took Wyatt fishing. He got to pick out his own fishing pole…he chose a Sponge Bob rod. He absolutely loved it!! That night when he was going to sleep he kept asking his dad to go get his “rod” from the car because he had to sleep with it.

These are pictures of him the next day practicing in the swimming pool.

Took a break from fishing to chase a lizard with the pole.

Realing ‘er in

I ♥ this picture! He’s so cute!

Here’s a video of Wyatt that I took on my cell:

I taught him the story of Noah’s ark & how the rainbow is God’s promise to never flood the earth again. (that is what he’s saying)

Other fun times this summer:

I was designated photographer for a few of my friends who decided they wanted to jump out of a plane…..

I brightened this one up because I love the look on her face!
I ♥ this one….going in for landing.
Close up…don’t you ♥ long lenses? (it was very helpful that day!)
Group shot!
One of the hardest things to do was photograph a moving object straight above my head +hundreds of feet!

The Keys:
I went to the keys for a week @ the end of July. A family that I nanny for goes down there every year to go Lobstering & I went with! It was a lot of fun being out on the boat with them (I got so much sun!) What a better way to earn $ then watching kids in the keys! We were mostly on the boat or at the pool all week long! We went down to Key West the last day for a couple hours here are a couple pics from that…..

They want me to go again next summer…so we’ll see!

Summer’s over…back to classes….

Megan moved back to school@ FSC & a friend of mine transferred there too…here’s a bunch of us in her dorm room.

Me:

As most of you know I just had my 24th birthday! It was great! My friends totally surprised silly stringed me at work…they don’t play around there were like 8 cans of silly string all being sprayed @ me! That night I had dinner with the family, all 5 of us had a nice dinner. It was great to get everyone all in one place since we are usually all over the place with work, school, etc. It was a lot of fun! Here are a couple pictures of us at dinner….

The sisters… All 3 of us…
And….no parents!

LOL they were there, but let’s just say (without explaining the entire story ) the pictures of them just didn’t turn out! LoL Good times!!! Thanks for a great birthday guys!

I’ve started classes as well. I’m taking a full load…18 hours! WOW! LOL Not only 18hrs but half of my classes are in Tampa, so I’m driving there 3 times a week, so that’s fun!(Takes about 1 hours each way) The one great thing about driving to Tampa is that I get to drive in my new car!! I traded my old one in for a more reliable/safe car for the commute! I got a ’03 Nissan Maxima, so I got the same model car just an upgrade! I ♥ it!!!! It makes the commute so much better.

Well that’s all the news/updating I can thinking of to do now. I’m going to sleep…I have a cold so I’m going to try & sleep it off! Until next time!

Check it out

Jessica — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:14:00 +0000

I posted some new pictures I recently took in St. Augustine with my *new camera* to my Photography Blog…link is in the sidebar. Check ‘em out!

I will also be posting on this blog info about school, Wyatt’s last visit, etc. very soon. Take care!

Night blooming sirius

Jessica — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:50:00 +0000

Our night blooming sirius bloomed while my Grandparents were here visiting. It was fun watching it bloom. The closer to midnight it got the more the blooms opened. It was cool. I’ve never seen it bloom before.

First signs of it openning…
The plant was full of blooming buds!
And let me tell you…the fragrance was overwhelming!
Once it had fully openned.

Grandma posing with a bloom that broke off.
Beautiful!!

In other news…………….

I BOUGHT A CAMERA!!!!

AND

I’M ECSTATIC!!!

I love it!!!!

It’s a Canon Digital Rebel XTi!

I unfortunately didn’t have it when I took the pictures of the sirius but…

Stay tuned because there are bound to be many photos posted…maybe I’ll put them on my “photography blog” though…we’ll see!

The Greats

Jessica — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:54:00 +0000

Wyatt & Dada with Great Grandma Daisy & Great Grandpa Bill
Givin G-GDaisy huggs bye bye
Wyatt & Andrew with “G-Papa”

And for the GRAND finale… Wyatt & his Great Great Grandma (G-G-mama)

Wyatt’s 1st beach trip

Jessica — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:25:00 +0000

Wy finding seashells
Meg & Francesca
Brooke on her boogie board

Anthony, Wyatt & Andrew
Wyatt’s 1st sandcastle
Wyatt & Dada having fun in the water

Emily & Wyatt playing after the beach
Felicity & Wy playing with the train
Wyatt & Nanny playing
Megan, Felicity & Maria reading books
Cheeeeezzzze!

Word to your mother

Jessica — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:09:00 +0000

In other words…Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms!

Here are some pictures from our trip to St.Aug for Jae’s baby shower:

Me & Perpetua

Maria (the animal saver) & “Stinky”

Me & Francesca

Megan & Perpetua
Meg showing off Jordan’s coal mining face

Jordan doing the “Derek Zoolander”

Christian being a monkey
Anthony’s turn
Sleeping Perpetua (so beautiful!)
Brooke’s all smiles!
Felicity attacking me with a balloon.
Uncle Steve, Maria & Andrew playing football
Maria & Uncle Steve
Francesca & Andrew
Anthony & Felicity playing football w/ Andrew & Steve

Andrew & Perpetua

Andrew assisting Anthony on making a touchdown

The touchdown

Francesca sayin cheeze

Meg & Francesca

Francesca giving Perpetua kisses

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We had a great time visiting. Hopefully we’ll make it up soon for a longer stay.

Meg & I posing with The Simpsons while waiting to watch Spider Man 3 (the longest movie of my life)

We had a great time hangin out on the way to & from the movie with Steve & Andrew. And while waiting in line for the movie. Thanks Steve for letting us crash over there. Thanks Nanny for the platter of goodies.
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A little update on me while I’m here:

I’m starting my summer classes this week.
I got my grades back from last semester & I got all A’s!
I went to the Gwen Stefani concert this past week & had a blast. (No hating please!) Here’s a fun picture I took there:

Meg & I before dinner with some friends

Lady’s night out for Amber’s Bday

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This past weekend I went to a College and Career retreat & while I was there we saw a video called “Indescribable” of a message that Louie Giglio spoke. He referenced a few lyrics from the song Indescribable by Chris Tomlin:

Indescribable,uncontainable, You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.You are amazing God…

Throughout his message he showed varies pictures of different stars and galaxies that are around the Milky Way. One of coolest things that he showed was this picture….

This is an image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (larger one on the left) and a dwarf galaxy(smaller one at the upper right). Not only is this image amazing because of its beauty and the fact that God created it but there is something very special about the very center of this galaxy……

This is an image of the nucleus of the the Whirlpool Galaxy:

This is what they call the ““X” across the nucleus of M51″. Now I don’t know about you but it sure doesn’t look like an “X” to me it looks more like a cross.

I thought that was so cool. Not only did God make all of these stars and galaxies but (in my opinion)he even placed a little reminder of the love he has for us in the center or should I say heart of one of his beautiful creations.

I just had to share these images because I think they are remarkable. If you are interested in the message by Louie Giglio my remarks on it don’t not give it justice you can order it here.

Andrew’s visit in Tennessee

Jessica — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:21:00 +0000

Andrew went up for the day to visit Wyatt. His mom sent some pictures of their visit. I thought I would share them. They are so cute! He’s helping Dada build his tricycle with his tool belt on & all!

That’s Wyatt’s new Deigo doll from grandma sitting on the ground. That huge thing made it all the way up there on the plane for little WyWy.

a ME update

Jessica — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:44:00 +0000

I just wanted to give a little update on what’s going on with me. I talked to an advisor at my school the other day & I’ve decided to change my major for the 2nd time lol! But thankfully this time will be the final time & it will actually get me closer to graduating than what I previously thought when I started @ USF.

I have changed my major to Psychology. I now only have 12 more classes to take & I will have my BA! Woot woot! *heehee* I really think this is a good thing. It broadens my options then what I would’ve previously had, I’m really excited. This has always been an area of interest for me & I still would like to stay on a tract that allows me to work with children.

Also, for those of you that live in St. Augustine…I’m planning a “photography trip” up there in a couple weeks with a friend of mine. We are going to be staying Saturday night & coming home Sunday. If any of you aren’t busy that weekend I’d love to stop by & say a quick “Hi”.

That’s my quick update on me. I gotta get to work!
Jess