Saying Goodbye

Since living here in Rexburg I have determined that it's really not all that bad. Certainly not as horrible as I was expecting it to be. It's a great community with fun activities and family events, great parks where I can exercise and play with the kids, and no traffic. But at the end of almost every semester I rediscover something that is really not fun at all! All of our friends basically go to BYU-I, and when they graduate, *poof* they are gone. Off to live their lives far away from Rexburg, Idaho. So many times it feels like we just realize how awesome a certain couple is, and only after getting to really hang out with them for a couple months and getting close, they move. That has happened to us so many times! I could list so many names here. BUT, this semester is worse. The Howard's are moving tomorrow morning! When we first moved here 2 years ago they were our neighbors, our front doors like 8 feet apart and facing each other. They helped us move our stuff in and after that we were hanging out almost every single day. When the weather got nice we'd both leave our doors open and there was no awkwardness in that at all. On the weekends we'd carry a couch from one apartment to the other to have more comfortable movie nights. We all got along extremely well and were best friends almost immediately. Then they decided to move across town. But that was ok because the town is small, and we could still get together and hang out. Tonight though we just had them over for the last time. =( We played some cards, and then Leanna and I talked and did our nails(shocking for me, I know), while the men got their last halo fix together. We said our goodbyes and..... they're gone. I want to cry. They really were our first friends here, and I'm really going to miss them! =( I don't know what I'm going to do when my friend Kelly whom I walk and talk with every day leaves! But that's for another post. I do not like saying goodbye! Hopefully, sometime, we will be able to see them again. I really look forward to the day when we will be in one place for a while, as well as most everyone else around us. So thank you Lance and Leanna for being such great friends, and here's some pictures of some memories with them. Looking through all my pictures I realize I don't have that many! I can't believe it! And I'm kicking myself for not taking one of all of us tonight.

On some random back road we went site seeing on after going to Mesa Falls in May 2007Leanna having fun with David when he was about 5 months old.Pictures of us at the park after we all walked there together.
Flying kites last April!