My Nanny Family

The week before Christmas my nanny family, the Connels, came and stayed at Park City. On December 23^rd, Nick and I were able to meet them at The Gardens Restaurant at Temple square. It was so good to see them. I was shocked at how much older my little nanny babies are! Tanner, who was two-years-old most of the time I was his nanny, can now read the Book of Mormon almost completely by himself! LOTS has changed since I was their nanny, but each one of them is still the littler person that I loved so much!

Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of the whole family, together, but this is Tanner. He is the youngest Connel and we called him ‘Nunu’. He is now 5-years-old! He loves to golf and has baby vampire teeth!

Next is a picture of the two beautiful Connel girls taken while we were at dinner! Kenna will be 12-years-old in January and she will get to go join the Young Women’s Program! I’m very excited for her. I was also shocked to find that this little lady is already as tall as I am at 5 feet 4 inches! (This is one tall family!) Stephanie is the mother of these four amazing children and I think she’s wonderful! You can also see a small part of Daren, the father of the family, behind Steph. Sadly, I believe this is the only picture I got of him that night. Daren is tall. I’ve never met another person as tall as him in my life!

This is Jacob. He was 5 most of the time I was there. He was just baptized this last year and he’s just as cute and cuddly as he ever was! He used to go to a preschool that taught Spanish and I learned most of the Spanish I know from Jake while playing with him! He is such a sweet, caring, sensitive little guy! I miss these little guys terribly!

The young man-ish guy with Nick is Michael Porter Connel. This little dude is either going to be an astronaut or a weatherman when he grows up! He knows everything there is to know about space and rocket ships. His weather predictions are honestly more accurate than the weatherman’s! :)

After Dinner we were able to walk around temple square and to see all of the beautiful lights. The temple was breathtaking! Here are a few more pictures I was able to get:

And Lastly, I let Tanner take a million pictures with my camera and the little guy went to town! Here are some of the great photos he took! (He really took them all by himself! I'm so impressed!) :)