Kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has done 'a truly amazing job' raising the two daughters allegedly fathered by her abductor, giving them an education while all three were kept captive in a backyard compound in Antioch, her aunt said Thursday. Dugard, 29, is with her mother, Terry Probyn, her two daughters, ages 11 and 15, and her younger sister 'in a secluded place, reconnecting,' Tina Dugard said at a televised news conference at the FBI's Los Angeles office. 'I was with them until recently,' she said. 'We spent time sharing memories and stories and getting to know each other again. Jaycee remembers all of us. 'She is especially enjoying getting to know her little sister, who was just a baby when Jaycee was taken,' Tina Dugard said. 'Not only have we laughed and cried together, but we spent time sitting quietly, taking pleasure in each other's company.' Jaycee Dugard was 11 when she was kidnapped in 1991 from a school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, allegedly by Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 54. The couple, arrested Aug. 26, have pleaded not guilty in El Dorado County to a total of 29 rape and kidnapping charges. Dugard's daughters, the older one reportedly named Starlet and the younger one Angel, are faring well and are quite bright, despite never having attended school, Tina Dugard said. She called them 'clever, articulate and curious.' 'Although they have no formal education, they are certainly educated,' she said. 'Jaycee did a truly amazing job with the limited resources and education that she herself had, and we are so proud of her.' She declined to take questions or discuss her niece's time with the Garridos. The reunion between Jaycee Dugard and her mother took place in a hotel in an undisclosed location in Contra Costa County, legal analyst Michael Cardoza said Thursday. Citing a law-enforcement official familiar with the meeting, Cardoza said Jaycee Dugard had asked for privacy and wanted only wanted her mother in the room. The reunion brought hardened investigators to tears, Cardoza said. 'They expected it to be very, very emotional, but they couldn't gauge how emotional it would be,' he said. The attorney said investigators have learned chilling details about Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping on June 10, 1991. The day before the abduction, the Garridos were driving in the girl's neighborhood and saw her with a group of other children, Cardoza said. Phillip Garrido pointed out Jaycee Dugard and said something to the effect of, 'I want that one, the pretty one,' according to Cardoza, citing the law-enforcement official. 'Then they came back the next day,' Cardoza said. 'She was alone, and they grabbed her.' Tina Dugard thanked the FBI, the El Dorado County sheriff's investigators and prosecutors and others for helping to find her niece. 'Their support and professionalism have been invaluable,' she said. She shared three pictures of Jaycee Dugard. One showed her at age 3 at her grandparents' home, another showed her dressed up as 'her version of a punk rocker' in October 1990, and the third showed her with her aunt at a Rose Parade float in Pasadena in January 1991, five months before the kidnapping. This is a 'joyful time for my family,' Tina Dugard said. 'The smile on my sister's face is as wide as the sea,' she said. 'Her oldest daughter is finally home.' 