Final Days in Utah

After getting back from Europe we had a little time left in Utah. We were staying at a furnished home near the canyons and just drove each day to see friends and family in our old neighborhood. Shae had a playdate with her favorite friend Carter. Reagan’s primary class gave her a goodbye party with sweet Trisha Linford who was such a great teacher to Reagan for quite a few years. 

Abby said goodbye to her sweet friend Ivy who was such a great neighbor and only girl Abby’s age at church. Perfect pair those two! We met Abby’s bestie Chelsea for ice cream on one of our last nights. Park playdates were in full force to say goodbye—and goodbye—and then goodbye one last time to groups of friends.

I got to have one last book club with my sweet group of friends and give them a book I chose for each of them. Little lunches, walks with old YW, and hugs at night with friends. Saying goodbye to my grandpa and grandma.

Water parks and goodbye to Alex and her family!

Late nights with select friends we were going to miss so much…

We threw a “Glow in the Dark” party for Abby & her friends. She said something to me afterwards that I will never forget, “Mom, I didn’t realize how many people loved me.”

Thankfully we got to attend by the skin of our teeth schedule wise the marriage of my cousin Nathan.

 

My nephew and nieces came over for one last sleepover. We had this tiny hot tub in the back and I was making fun of my sister for requiring her son to wear a life jacket when I was right there with him. Then literally a few minutes after she left he went to walk out of the hot tub and fell down the stairs. The lifejacket acted almost like a hot dog bun and he wasn’t scratched at all! Haha, it made us laugh!

Abby had to say goodbye to them early because she was off to girls camp and while she was gone they were off to a trip. Abby went to girls camp with our ward we were about to leave.

 

 

Tyler left around that time to get himself and all our things out to South Carolina while we wrapped up a few things in Utah.

Our goodbye with the Brown side broke my heart. Cameron and Lydia were the best of friends and so important to each other, so that was a hard goodbye. The other kids didn’t even really realize they were saying goodbye!

I had taken Lydia and Cameron on a special outing just the two of them before we moved. They are both huge Harry Potter fans so I took them to a local bookstore who was celebrating Harry’s birthday to the max!

I got to take my nephews out for Bruges waffles! One of our last nights together we just watched bunnies while sitting on the grass. Isn’t that wonderful how some of your favorite memories with family are such little things?

In the last week while staying at my parents the girls got to finish up quilts they had been working on with my mom.

And in our very last night we played at the lake with my family to say goodbye. It was a beautiful night!

The morning we left the grandparents gave the girls huge hugs and we were off. Boy did we cry for the first day just straight. Leaving Utah broke our hearts.

p.s. random video shots

p.p.s. we also somehow snuck in a couple days at our family’s spot, Grand America, but now I can’t remember when! but it really is the only fancy thing our family enjoys.

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