FLAGS FOR OUR NEIGHBORS!

Lisa July 4, 2009 5Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today was awesome.   All of us at Camp Nana, plus some really awesome family and friends helped ME CELEBRATE MY FIRST FOURTH OF JULY!

Thank you to GG-ma, Great Papa, Uncle David, Aunt Kris, Steven, Bryan, Dr. Randy and Ms. Susie, and all of their family and friends.   Thank you to Mr. Bob, Mrs. Dee, Gappy Pam, and Great Uncle Brian, Cuz Brittany and Mrs. Pat.  All of you made my first Fourth of July and extra special day.  You helped me spread wishes for the safe return of everyone serving overseas, and here are some photos of us celebrating our special day… and certainly the black beast,aka,’MR NIKON’ and Nana captured some of me… being Little Miss Adorable the All American!   Thank you mom and dad, and enjoy  photos of my first FLAGGING day.  

We tried to line as many streets as possible with a little flag, and a heart full of patriotism for our country!   Nana says, with help from all the friends and family …. we were able to get out to so many communities and hopefully next year we will get flags to even more people.   Nana loves the flag!   But this you already knew….  Here is my day…. it was great…. CLICK ON MY PICTURE TO SEE THE ENTIRE THING… and enjoy!

I hope that all our friends and neighbors enjoyed getting a little present from the heart… and that you have lot’s more people who send well wishes and prayers for your SAFE AND SPEEDY return to me!   I love you mom and dad…. and as always I am YOUR LITTLE MISS ADORABLE, your daughter,

Guillianna!

ON JULY 4TH my letter will be late!

Lisa July 3, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

As you recall, July 4th is FLAGGING DAY here at camp.  ALL OF US CAMPERS will be out and about before dawn, and delivering flags to homes in the community with yellow ribbon pins in your honor, so please be patient… MY LOVE LETTER WILL GET POSTED, IT JUST MAY NOT BE UNTIL LATE!    Love always, your LMA Guillianna!

Friday before the ‘FOURTH’..and ‘7th’!

Lisa July 3, 2009 2Comments

Hello Mom and Dad,

Today is Friday, it is the day before my seventh Princess-versary.   It is also the day before the Fourth of July,  A HUGE DEAL IF YOU KNOW WHAT BEING AMERICAN MEANS TO MOMMY AND ALL OF my Aunts and Uncle….it is the day before we go out in our community flagging….or sharing our patriotism with our neighbors.

Nana is as Uncle Nick says…’ fan-Patroio-tastic’ about getting everything organized for the early morning delivery of flags to neighbors and friends.  He swears Nana was hit with a Patriotic stick when she was born.    This year Nana affixed one of my little designer pins, with the yellow ribbon to bring all the soldiers home safely, and my little pink hand print to bring both you and mommy home to me VERY SOON.

I sent both mommy and daddy one, and I hope you got them.   I will put a picture of it up here for you again in case you have not yet gotten yours in the mail.

We plan on getting an early start, and after we finish, and all the neighbors wake up the the stars and stripes we hope that they too will be wishing you home!   It really is a lot of  fun, and sometimes people come out and they say hello, or shake Poppy’s hand, and everyone we meet where ever we go, sees me, and then says ‘TELL YOUR MOM AND DAD THANK YOU FOR THEIR SERVICE‘.   So mom and dad, we are getting ready tonight for our flagging adventure, and every single person who gets a flag from our family will also get a little GUILLIANNA PIN, to remind us  –  to remind us of all the MOM’S AND DAD’S , sisters, brothers, children, aunties and uncles… all the men and all the women who are STILL there, and other places around the world. 

 Everyone is some body’s someone special, some one’s  child, some one’s loved one…. We, on our independence day, will all be saying “THANK YOU” to all the service men and women across the globe.    Wishing them safety and a quick return to their homes.   As always, your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

More of me….

How did I get to be here at Camp Nana?

Lisa July 2, 2009 1Comments

Hello Mama, and Daddy…..

Dear Mom and Dad,

 Nana finished Chapter 11!   Now, I know now where I am from, how mommy came to know daddy, and when I am big, I will have the story from Nana… what is not yet determined, is where I am going… and I am so glad to have a lifetime with you to figure it all out.   Nana says, she remembers mommy in grade school, laughing and smiling and twisting her curls.   She says she remembers her growing and learning, she remembers her graduation from high school, from basic training, and all the wonderful things she has accomplished while in the military.   She just wanted me to write and remind mommy and you about all the great things we have to look forward to.   Riding a bike… rollerblades, tea parties, story time, birthday parties, and sleep overs, school projects, and arts and crafts, baking cookies, and yes maybe “time outs’ but the list of things is endless.   And from what I understand, Nana or AKA  “the overprotective one”, well, it’s unlikely she will let me do anything much here at camp besides, EAT SLEEP AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE DIAPER CHANGES, but you can bet your bottom dollar, that anything fun, like slides, or baseball, or more strenous than peek a boo, well she will leave all those RISKY things to the two of you… she says she’s already done all that worrying… SIX TIMES OVER… so I will work on my list of things to do with you when you return from the land of sand, and you two work on yours.  Together, we should have one heck of a time when you get back!

Nana and I, with Aunt Arri had “stuff” to do today.   Nana went to visit her friends at the post office, and I got to say hello.   They are so nice to Nana there, and I love being fussed over.   We also had to go to the bank.   Poppy met us there to do some paperwork, and I was adorable.   Here I am today, what do you think?

I love field trips, every where I go, I get so many people to smile and I have fun.   We had to pick up dipes and wipes, and then some butt paste too.  Then it was back to camp, and play time with my buddy Elmo!

 Nana says, she hopes you had a great day, and that you know you are both loved and missed.   You are going to be back here one day soon and we will begin our ‘lifetime’ together!

Tomorrow is Friday, and we will be hanging out at Camp, learning and playing… I ate some Chicken with Country Vegetables and Rice for dinner tonight.  NOT A FAN, BUT LOVED MY Apples and Apricots.   Yesterday I ate some really creamy babyfood Mac and Cheese, and liked it, but really I am still majorly into the BOB.   Bob and I … well it is still my favorite meal.  I try new things though and do love FRUIT.    Until tomorrow, let me just say, I am and always will be, your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!   Here is my day in review….. hoping it puts smiles onto both of your faces!  

P.S.   Yes today is Thursday, and No… there was no Gappy tonight, because she is doing something very hard for her …  Gappy and her daughter are going to be far apart too… and she is helping to move her from Michigan to North Carolina (so hard, yet it is what my cuz wants, and that makes Gappy happy!)…. WE MISS YOU GAPPY.    Hope your trip was nice, and you and Uncle Brian, enjoy traveling.   Miss you both, come home soon… Love your Great Niece…

and to my Mimi… I bet you are sooooo excited.   I hope  you too have a very safe trip  ( not sure when you leave, but last we at camp heard you would be on your way near the Fourth of July…. I will be thinking of you and Popa!