Decorating a Little at a Time

One thing we are always pretty slow at when we move into a new place is hanging up pictures. That's because hanging pictures is a commitment and commitment is hard for someone who has a hard time making decisions. (O: I loved my pictures hanging in the upstairs hall at our house in Hillsboro. It was my little tribute to my baby girls and their special blessing dress made by grandma P. I miss my vinyl lettering that said, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" - hopefully I'll get some later on. But for now - I have my favorite little picture montage upstairs again!

It's Official

We are officially Utahns. We have the driver's licenses and plates to show it. I still have my Oregon ID for sentimental purposes, but it is no longer valid. It was kind of weird changing our plates. We put it off for long enough. My brother, Mr. police officer, gave us a little motivation when he told us the fine for having out of state plates for longer than the grace period (60 days) was going up. That was all we needed. And the notoriously horrible DMV was AMAZING! It was so organized and fast, we could not believe it. We had new drivers licenses in about 30 minutes, including the time to take the open book test. Miracle of miracles.

Now we just need to change our Oregon cell phone numbers . . .

November . . .

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As the boxes got unpacked and we began learning where to find things, we started settling into our new life and felt very grateful for everything that brought us to this point. It really is miraculous. I think it was so appropriate that all the feelings, changes and events of the last few months come to an end during a season of gratitude.

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Now does this look like "home" to you or what? Nat got all "cozy" one Sunday morning as we watched a little MoTab.

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Our yard has 16 rose bushes. Our last house had about 12, which I thought was too many. We will probably be replacing some of them, but until I decided which ones, I had to do some major pruning for winter. I got extra motivated just before a big snowstorm hit - I was out pruning in 25 mph winds all bundled up. I was happy to get it done - I think it took a good 3-4 hours that day. Phew!

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Angela and our white backyard!

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I couldn't resist getting a shot of my Eskimos before heading to school one morning! I don't remember why Sarah is wearing pajamas. Must have been a party. This was before our real Lands End snow boots arrived, so my poor girls had a couple days of tromping in the snow in their galoshes! Poor things!

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Angela wore this pilgrim hat she made at school for several days, including Thanksgiving. Here she is eating a "crabby patty" treat. I don't think the pilgrims ever tried one of these.

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Hank got to dive right in to his church calling in Young Men by heading up the youth talent night. We came to watch and support. It was fun to get a glimpse at our new ward's youth. They are great kids and I was amazed at the talent! The boy above did the cutest song from a Broadway show about an older man looking through his yearbook and singing about how he never got picked first for any teams, but he got picked by his wife to be with her and that's all that mattered. Such a cute song and he really did a good job.

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This is a familiar sight. I have similar pictures of the girls doing this at one of my YW activities in Hillsboro. (o: Some things never change.

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Lots of musical talents were shared - what a fun group of kids!! We have tons of youth in our ward which will be so fun for the girls as they grow up here.

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A new job to get used to!

The Girls' Rooms

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Because we were going from the girls sharing in the old house to getting their own rooms in the new house, we needed to get a new dresser and a couple new pieces of furniture for their rooms. The first priority was a dresser so we could get Angela's clothes out of her boxes. After two weeks of living out of boxes, her dresser arrived! Before this new furniture arrived, my motivation to work on the girls rooms was minimal. I worked on other areas of the house. The day the furniture arrived, I worked hard to get all their rooms unpacked and arrranged. It felt so good to finally have them moved in and they were so excited to see the big "ta da" when they got home from school.

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Nat loved seeing her bed pushed up against the wall. I had fun moving things around until I liked it.

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Just a Random Picture

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No special events or anything, just an afternoon with my Ang. This really captures the unpacking mode we were in if you look all around. Hey the bed is made! There's a good thing! The curtains were still tied up from the carpets being cleaned and there are random things here and there.

These were some cute dolls Angela got from Mrs. B. for a going away gift.

Just taking a break and trying to make some memories in our new home.

The Keys to the House - at Last!

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This day seemed to take forever to come. On October 26th we signed the papers for our new house and on October 28th we got the keys! Unfortunately, we wouldn't get to move in until November 1st because of scheduling with the movers, but the house was finally ours. We went to see it every day and got a few things done while we waited to move in. (Appliance delivery, carpet cleaning, etc.)

This whole process did not go as smooth as we had hoped and there were a few days when we wondered if we'd lose the house altogether. Because we were doing the whole move through a relocation agency, we got perks for working with their preferred lender. A lender that resided in Maryland. In hindsight we will never do that again. The perk was that we would not have to be reimbursed for the closing costs - the company would bill the relocation company directly. We wish we would have just chose our own lender and waited for a few days to be reimbursed. It would have been much less of a hassle than what we went through!

We had to do all the paperwork via delivery. The most important paperwork was the loan application that we filled out in Oregon as soon as we got home from the house hunting trip. It was a little stressful figuring it out on our own as compared to the other two times we bought homes and did the process in the lender's office with their help. We carefully looked over every detail, copied everything and shipped it off via UPS right away.

Chuck* called often to check up on things with the loan officer and even checked to see if they got the papers. We checked that off our list and weeks later thought we just had to wait out the rest. There were a few other hurdles we had to go through - we definitely noticed a change in the loan process since the Fannie May disaster. We had to prove and verify everything to show we (and our money) were legitimate. That was a little more stressful as well, but the real kicker came when Chuck* and I suspected something that made our hearts stop. The loan officer had made a comment that seemed kind of strange and made him suspect she never got our loan application. He called her immediately and discovered to our horror that she was still waiting for those papers. I completely LOST it. We had sent the paperwork three weeks earlier and were supposed to close on our house in just days. We were stunned and could not believe this was happening. Long story short - apparently UPS lost it - the tracking number hit a dead end. Had we learned it was missing sooner they probably could have found it. We were furious with the lending officer for not communicating this minor detail. Somehow she misunderstood Chuck's direct questions as to whether she had received it. I still don't understand how that happened.

So now we had two huge problems. Our paperwork with social security and bank numbers was in limbo and we had to get new papers to the lender or we would lose the house. Of course, the extra copies of the loan papers were in the filing cabinet in some storage unit nearly impossible to get to. We didn't think we'd need to refer to them so soon. We (mostly Chuck*) spent the day printing about 100 pages of documents, refilling them out and faxing them to the lender.

After a call to the "office of the president" of the company when I was furious about the mistake and worried we could possibly lose the house and/or have our identity stolen - they offered to pay for identity theft protection and apologized profusely. They made sure to put our loan at top priority to get everything through in time. For a short time all I could think of was that if we lost the house, our poor girls might have to change to another school after everything they'd been through already. I couldn't bear to uproot them again. And we loved the house - it felt like ours, the ward was so nice and it all felt so right. Luckily, in the end it was, but we got a little roller coaster ride out of the whole experience. My word of advice - go through a local lender your agent is familiar with.

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We were finally able to rest easy as things worked out. This was one of our last nights in the hotel. Ahhhh.

First Day the the New School

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Two days after arriving in our new state, it was finally time for the girls to jump into their new school. We were all so nervous - except Angela. (o: Vern* didn't have to start work until the next day, so we got to all head over to the new school together. We got up extra early so we could arrive at the school in plenty of time. When we got there it was a ghost town. We thought we had arrived 15 minutes early at 7:45. Luckily, the doors were open and the principal was there. She apologized that we must have gotten an old flyer with the school time in our school packet. The school time had changed two weeks into the year due to traffic issues - the junior high and high school just down the road all started so close to the same time that traffic was a mess, so they made the elementary school time a half hour later. Whoopee! And extra half hour to sleep in! (o:

It turned out great getting there so early, we got to talk with the principal for several minutes, ask her a few questions and she let us wander around to explore the school. She found out our teacher's names and made us feel welcome. We took Miss Nat to her teacher first. She was so cute and sweet with Natalie. I was so surprised how well Natalie did. I expected her to hang on my waist like she still did some mornings when I dropped her off at her old school. I think she was excited to finally get started, the whole month of September was just weird for the girls knowing they were leaving.

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Sarah put on a brave face. She had so many friends and felt so at home in her old school, this was a scary day for her. Vern* and I were so nervous for her and knew it would take some time to feel at home again. As we walked into the class of curious 4th graders all staring, I could see the look in Sarah's eyes and I tried to just be matter of fact and said goodbye to my little sweetie. I wanted to linger and watch to make sure she would be okay, but that's not a cool thing when you're in 4th grade having a hovering mom. I also think we both would have broke down in tears within seconds, so Vern* and I made our exit and didn't look back. I prayed and prayed all day for things to go well. That's all I could do.

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Angela was the most excited to get to school and jump right in. Her teacher was so surprised to see her wave happily goodbye and head to the chair at the table she had ready for her. Angela was born ready for Kindergarten and like the other girls, knew her short time at the old school was not permanent. She was ready to really settle in. She was actually disappointed that she didn't get to stay as long as her sisters when we picked her up before lunch.

That day was a long one - Vern* and I ran a couple errands and then killed time watching TV at his parents house. We were excited when it was time to get Angela and took her to In and Out Burger to hear all about her first day. She was excited and told us about her stations, reading and who she sat by.

It was a relief to finally see Sarah and Natalie. They both had smiles on their faces! Phew! Natalie did great and had some nice girls in her class that immediately made her feel welcome. Both girls had someone to sit by at lunch and someone to play with at recess - the two times of day that can feel most lonesome when you are new.

I was so grateful when Sarah told us that right after we left her teacher had her come up and talked with her class. "Have any of you ever been new to a school before?" Some kids raised their hands. "It's a scary thing to be brand new isn't it? I want you to be extra nice to Sarah and help her feel welcome today." Then she asked a couple of the girls to make sure they stayed with Sarah and helped her for the day. What an awesome teacher.

This was a HUGE day to get over with. The anticipation had been building up ever since I knew we were really going - the new school thing was a big deal. And now we were ready to move on with life and get settled. A huge weight was off our shoulders.

Welcome to Utah

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We left for Utah on Friday afternoon and made our traditional stop in Nampa, Idaho at the Hampton Inn. Everything felt so sentimental, even staying at this hotel. This became our favorite half way point on our many drives to Utah. We were exhausted by the time we arrived around 10:00 p.m. This drive was much longer than usual for me because of my emotional state and the fact that Bob* and I were driving separate. It made the time go by slower. I love our road trips together - it was lonesome without him. At least I had the girls with me. We passed the time listening to books on tape - Junie B. Jones and The Tale of Despereaux. (A story with surprising depth - I highly recommend it!)

Bob and I also had plenty of time to just think and reflect on that long drive. To just feel so grateful for the wonderful care that Heavenly Father took of our family for all those years in Oregon, for the opportunity to come back close to family and for all the little and big miracles he has blessed us with. This was a huge turning point for our family. We had a new adventure ahead and the memories of a wonderful adventure behind us.

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Here we go! This is really happening . . .

Last Day in Oregon

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On our last day we had a few more friends come to say goodbye. Sweet Monica and her mom Eva (see the tributes to friends post) came one last time and brought bags of goodies for all of us to enjoy on the long drive. It was such a thoughtful and kind gesture. We will miss their family so so so much.

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Our awesome real estate agent came to check in with us one last time and say goodbye. By the end of everything she felt like a good friend as well. She took such good care of us and every single detail. I am so grateful that we found her when a friend happened to mention her sister-in-law on the exact day we were starting to look for an agent. I can't say enough about Patty - she was amazing. We will always be grateful for her.

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They didn't want to say goodbye and I didn't want to make them.

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Luning, our next door neighbor came with books and treats for the girls to enjoy in the car. She was always such a sweetheart to my girls. We just loved her. All these kind gestures were not helping my emotions!

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My sweet buds Sarah and Lizzy came one last time too and we hung out for a bit - like old times. I felt so bad that I actually didn't get very teary saying goodbye to them. I seriously think I was all dried up and because I expect them to come see me in Utah. (o: I know Sarah will be coming to BYU next year and they have family close to our new home. I knew I would see them again and that thought made me happy!

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Natalie played over at Elizabeth's house one last time while Melvin* and I loaded up the cars and cleaned the house.

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Our very last meal in our wonderful home filled with so many memories. We ate Chipotle right in this spot 4 and a half years previously the day we got the keys to this house. Angela was a baby. We have LOVED this house. It was a wonderful place to raise our little family.

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I had to snap one last picture as I walked out for the last time. I was bawling and trying to hold back sobs. So many memories in this home. Preschool lessons, Christmas appetizer parties, family visits, birthday parties, Christmas Eve fondue dinners, and everyday living all took place in this spot.

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It really was a miracle that we were able to fit everything in our two cars that was left in the house. We used every last square inch to squeeze in all our items that the movers wouldn't take, our cleaning supplies, our suitcases, sleeping bags, vacuum, computers and everything we'd need for the next few weeks until we got into the new house. I was so exhausted already as I went to get in the car that I got in the passenger side. Melvin* tried not to laugh when I realized, I had to drive the van! We locked up and as we pulled out of our street, I tried to see as best I could with tears falling freely. We stopped by for one last goodbye to the Halls, a quick run by Natalie's friend Emma's house to leave a birthday gift and then we were finally off. We were really leaving Oregon. )o:

2 Days and Counting . . .

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Natalie with Ellie and Lydia. This was the girls' last day at school. I went to say goodbye to the wonderful teachers and friends and to grab a couple last shots of the girls with their friends. Of course, I cried as I walked out of the beautiful school the girls were lucky enough to attend for two years. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty darn good there. It's funny how leaving something makes you realize just what an awesome thing you had. Great friends, community, teachers and a gorgeous new building.

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Natalie and Emma, who became good friends last year in first grade.

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Mallory, Jenna, Sarah, Jensen and Lauren. The cutest girls ever and such great friends for my Sarah. I wanted to bring them with us.

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I look so tired in this picture - emotionally spent. Melanie was so sweet to come pick up Angela for one last reading "school" day. Julie, who is just awesome and was mentioned in a previous post, was doing a once a week reading enrichment "school" for these old preschool pals. Angela only got to attend a couple weeks. It was such a neat idea and fun way for the girls to stay connected and enrich their reading skills at the same time. We were so crazy on this day, but I wanted to girls to do each and every last thing before we went. Melanie very kindly picked up Angela and brought her back. Then I had to say goodbye to her. )o: She has been such an incredible friend and inspiration to me for years. We lived in the Quatama ward where her sweet Paige and Sarah became best buds. They were so much alike and even after we moved to Hillsboro, still stayed connected and went to each other's birthday parties. Melanie and I stayed connected as well especially when we had Lucy and Angela in the same preschool group. I have always loved and adored Melanie. She is such an awesome mother and has the most hilarious sense of humor about motherhood. I always felt refreshed and inspired to be a better mom when I was around her. The way she joked about all the things that were hard about being a mom made me feel better when I had hard days. The day I found out her awesome family was moving to our ward was such a wonderful day. I smiled every time I thought about it. I was so excited. When I look back, it is so weird to think just how perfect everything seemed to be going right before we left. We had Melanie and her family over for a BBQ one night in the summer after they moved down the street from us. It seemed like the beginning of getting to be even better friends now that we had them in our ward again. We had a blast and played Rockband until the kids were ready to go. (o: Sarah and Paige were in heaven - I don't recall seeing much of them that night. It really does seem so unfair how great everything was going when this job opportunity happened. I will miss the fun memories we could have made! Melanie is just a gem and I'll miss her so much.

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Little Lucy and Angela - both have the nickname of "Loo". (O:

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That afternoon, the truck was officially packed and ready to go. It was weird watching it pull away with all our belongings. I mostly worried about my piano on that long trip and in storage for so long.

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Soon after, I took Sarah for her last activity day. It was a surprise party for her! She was very surprised! All the girls were so cute and made her feel so loved.

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Look at these adorable girls.

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I love this one. (O:

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Angie was the most awesome activity day leader. (That's my new calling in our new ward and I know I will never be as awesome as Angie was! But I'll try!) I'm so glad Sarah got to know her. Angie was also one of my dear friends in our ward. I got to be her visiting teacher the entire time I lived in our Hillsboro house! Over four years. Somehow Cherie (my awesome companion) and I got to be together that entire time as well. The three of us had so many great conversations about life, the gospel and family. Angie is such a talented person. She is artistic, has a great sense of style and color, makes the most adorable blankets, throws the most incredibly creative parties and spent so much of her life making everyone around her feel special. I was always in awe of what Angie could do and love thinking back on when we did enrichment together (planning the relief society activities and events). Her amazing creativity and ideas for design made our relief society dinners extra special and fun. My favorite was our cruise ship night where we decorated the gym like a cruise ship - she had the cute idea of using foam homemade life preservers as centerpieces. Seriously, she could do parties professionally the way her mind worked. Besides all those things, Angie has a very spiritual side as well. She has so much wisdom and taught me so much. I know I've said this about so many of my friends, but seriously, Angie is incredible and her friendship made me a better person. I don't know how I was so blessed to be surrounded by such exemplary women.

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I ran into Amy at the church while she picked up Eaden and got to give her one last hug goodbye. I loved getting to know her over the years. She is such a hoot to be around and has an infectious laugh. I got to take pictures of her adorable family several times and we always had fun. My favorite has to be the motorcycle pictures with Wayne's Harley. Amy is so spirited and so fun to be around. Our families got along so great and we had some fun dinners together. Amy always made me feel so at ease and was such a great mom. Amy and I always laughed a lot. One time, during the winter freeze of '08 - she walked about a mile to our house with her two girls to pick up some pictures, get together for hot chocolate and just get out of the house! I can't believe she did it! She carried Abby all the way home that afternoon - luckily I found a little baby backpack that Abby was little enough to fit in. What a pioneer woman! What a fun memory.

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This is Rebecca. I know - it's a little silly having so many pictures of me hugging people and it might be getting old, but I wanted pictures with as many of my friends as I could get. I still remember the first time I saw Rebecca at church when we first went to the Dawson Creek ward. She walked in with her six kids and sat behind us. I remember that the look in her eyes and her face impressed me. She had such a gentle and kind spirit and it showed from the first time I saw her. I thought to myself that she seemed like such a Christ-like person and I couldn't wait to get to know her better. Honestly, I was so impressed by her right from the start. And every single one of those qualities is Rebecca. She is kind, gentle and so Christ-like toward others. She gives and gives to her beautiful family, friends, neighbors and everyone she meets. I think the world of Rebecca and have always wanted to emanate that peaceful and loving countenance like she does. She has never been unkind, is always concerned for others (even when she is overwhelmed with her very busy life) and is a dear friend. I loved having her as my visiting teacher and getting to talk with her. Over the summer, we went on an impromptu bike ride to a relief society gathering and then went for a run at a nearby track. It was so fun and we planned to do it more regularly over the summer, but then he move took over. Riding together that summer night and just talking about life and people we wanted to help was so awesome. We had great plans to reach out to others - some of which we did, like a baby shower for our cute Indian neighbor, Jyoti - and some will never be - like our idea to have weekly lunches and invite a new sisters in the ward or others who might be needing a friend. I am so grateful for Rebecca's amazing example of charity and as old and cliche as it may sound again and again - I mean it with all sincerity - I am better because of Rebecca.

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After a long and emotionally exhausting day, Kelly very sweetly invited us over for dinner. We enjoyed ourselves so much we wondered why we didn't do it more often. It was one last kind gesture from a dear friend and neighbor. I felt very melancholy as we walked home at dusk through the neighborhood I knew so well for the last time. Back to our beautiful house for the last time. Our empty beautiful house. It was such a strange and empty feeling.

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Soon a couple more friends came to drop by for one last goodbye. Elizabeth couldn't make it to the farewell party and wanted to come by before we left. She and sweet, little Lauren stopped by with the best bag of goodies for us to munch on during our long drive to Utah. It was so thoughtful and sweet. It seemed like every goodbye was just getting harder and harder. I was overwhelmed by the realization of how many dear friends I had made in Oregon. Elizabeth and I have a strange story. I have actually known Elizabeth since we first moved to Oregon. She was in my first ward. I had a handful a close friends I made in that ward - the group of us who had just moved from Utah after Intel hired our husbands out of BYU. I never got to be friends with Elizabeth back then, but I admired her from afar. One of our first Sundays, she spoke. She was a Sunday School teacher for some teens in the ward. She talked about that class with so much love. I was so impressed with her kind heart and testimony as she spoke. Then for many months following, I heard several of the kids in her Sunday school class get up in testimony meetings and thank her for being such a wonderful teacher. I was so impressed with her and thought she seemed like the neatest lady. As luck would have it, I ended up being in the same ward as her over 5 years later. I saw her walk into sacrament meeting with an adorable baby girl always wrapped up in the cutest blankets and I remembered who she was. Eventually, I introduced myself and told her we had been in the Rock Creek ward together. I don't remember much after that - it was like we were instant friends. I have always felt such a connection with Elizabeth and have found her to be the most genuine and honest friend. She is a friend who really gets to know the real you. We have had so many awesome conversations. She took me out to lunch two years ago for lunch at one of her favorite restaurants in Hillsboro which soon became mine too. It was such a special treat. She threw such fun holiday parties that the girls and I attended - Easter, Christmas, school starting . . . and we loved having her over to our house. There were a few times I helped watch Lauren - the cutest little curly headed, energetic, funny girl I've ever met. We all loved Lauren so much. We loved having Elizabeth and Lauren over for dinner or to visit after watching Lauren. One particularly memorable warm evening, Elizabeth, Ned* and I stood on the driveway just talking. Meanwhile, the girls stripped down - some in swimsuits, but Lauren in her underwear - and started running through the sprinkler watering our front lawn with umbrellas just laughing and screaming. It was so funny. I grabbed my camera and those pictures make me laugh when I look back on them. I was so sad to say goodbye to Elizabeth and just love her so much. I always felt so grateful that I got a second chance to get to know this amazing woman.

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Tina and I had said goodbye about 10 times by this night. (o: Not really, we were really just procrastinating the inevitable. A few nights earlier, we had a lovely girls night at the Venetian restaurant. (the one I mentioned above that Elizabeth introduced me to!) So often our converstations are during playdates, or on the phone with kids around. We had a great time just talking with no interruptions while eating great food. She gave me a card and a beautiful angel statue that made me cry. I have that little angel right in my window by my kitchen sink. I'm glad I read the card later or I really would have been a wreck. Tina has been such a dedicated and true friend in every sense of the word for so many years. She knew I had always wanted to move back to Utah, but we really never thought the day would actually come. So strange that I finally got what I wanted and it ended up being one of the hardest things I've ever done. I was so tired and emotional with this being our last night at "home", I don't even really remember saying goodbye. I just know that it really, really stunk. In a way, I didn't feel too sad because Tina is a friend I will always keep in touch with. She is too good of a friend for that to just be the end. I knew we would talk on the phone just like we always did. And I knew she would visit family in Utah (and hopefully me! (o: ). Tina will be a life long friend for sure.

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Cute kids: Angela up top, Lauren, Natalie, Maddie, Tori and Sarah at the bottom.

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At the end of a very exhausting day, we snuggled up by the fireplace in our sleeping bags for one last night in our house. Several people invited us over to their houses (as we had no beds), which we so appreciated, but we really wanted one last night in our home. The girls thought it was fun and we all slept very good that night.