Sunny Days After School
Serving the Matthews-Mint Hill area since 1991

The way we speak to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'Mara
Meet Our Staff
"Children have more need of models than of critics." -Joseph Joubert
Amy Guion - director
Mrs. Amy earned a Bachelor's
degree in Early Childhood
Education from The University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. She
was a classroom teacher with
CMS prior to opening
Sunny Days in 1991.
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Amy moved to Charlotte from
her hometown of Flat Rock, NC
in 1983.
Amy and Mark have been married since 1984. They have two adult sons, Payton and Garrett.
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Mark Guion - accountant +
Mr. Mark attended East
Carolina University before
graduating from The
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte with a
Bachelor's degree in
Business Administration. He
worked as an internal
auditor with Royal Insurance
prior to Sunny Days.
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Mark is a native Charlottean who has survived being married to Amy since 1984. Along with their two sons, they also have an English Bull Terrier named Tank, and a mixed breed rescue puppy named Callie.

Pam Mullican- group leader
Mrs. Pam earned a Bachelor's degree
in Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma
State University, then moved to Florida
for a job with the Department of Energy.
She moved to Matthews in 1988.
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She is a lifelong Girl Scout who began
volunteering as an assistant leader in
college, and continued to volunteer until
helping with the troops her girls joined. Mrs. Pam and her husband have three daughters and one son.
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Mrs. Pam has been teaching preschool at First Baptist Church-Matthews for eleven years. She began working at Sunny Days in 2017.

Patti Pilsy- group leader
Mrs. Patti was born and raised in
Malvern, PA. She lived in Chicago,
Florida, and Colorado before settling in
North Carolina in 2003.
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Mrs. Patti has been in childcare for 22
years. She was a nanny for 10 years. She
has worked in preschool with all ages, and
has been at Sunny Days since 2016. She loves working with
children because it keeps her young at heart.
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Mrs. Patti and her husband have been married 28 years. They have twin sons who are 27.
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Kaitlyn Miller-group leader
Ms. Kaitlyn is a senior at Piedmont
High School. She has lived in North
Carolina her whole life. She was a
Sunny Days kid who came back as
a teacher in Summer 2023.
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She enjoys shopping with friends
and racing cars with her family.
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Kaitlyn has a Shih Tzu named Ryder.

Abigayle Price-group leader
Ms. Abigayle was born and raised in
Matthews. She came to Sunny Days
as a child and then joined our staff
in Summer 2023.
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Abigayle enjoys working with children
and has been serving in the nursery of her church for 5 years. In her free time, she enjoys playing softball, shopping and taking pictures with her friends.
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She has two dogs, a golden retriever named Goose and a Terrier mix named Finley.
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Summer staff 2024: Mrs. Amy, Mrs. Kim, Mrs. Pam, Mrs. Patti, Ms. Hannah, Ms. Kaitlyn, Ms, Abigayle, Ms, Ella, Ms. Caroline