Good-Bye To Houston

Ugh, it's late and I should be sleeping...unpacking MORE boxes...organizing another room or something OTHER than blogging. However, here I am, what can I say?

Well, I will try to catch you up to speed in a nutshell since the last post: We witnessed somewhat of a miracle as we managed to sell our house during a recession and AFTER all the new guidelines for the lending/housing industry took place. It was quite the roller coaster of events and I'm pretty much glad to be done with it all!


We found a cute place to rent in Utah for awhile until Jed figures out his new schedule and what not and we figure out a convenient place for us to live. And since we sold our house a tad quicker than we thought, me and the kids moved to Utah early while Jed is still in H-town until the end of the month. Thanks Talbot's for your awesome hospitality...if Jed gets to be too much to handle, give me a call or just give him more chores! ;)

I've never handled moving very well. I've relocated 3 times now and pretty much every time it's just as emotional as the last move. I think this one hit me a bit harder though. Five out of the seven years Jed and I will have been married (this weekend) have been spent living in Houston. We bought our first home in Houston and had our first 2 kids there. So needless to say it was a little difficult to say good-bye to our first house. I was actually doing okay until I was checking the kids' rooms one last time for anything left in them and that's pretty much when it all went downhill. It was then that I fully realized how many memories we had there in that house.

We also had some FABULOUS friends there in Houston. Makenzi misses her BFF Sevy something terrible! She asks to go play at her house every day or to go to the water park and play and of course expects to see her at church when we get there. The Ormson's have been completely awesome and frankly we are upset with them for taking FOUR years to GET to Houston! :)

The Talbot's too, took their sweet time getting to Houston however we are glad that they came! We've had some majorly fun game nights and pretty much laughed many times and made jokes at their expense! They will never be able to be the first couple to leave a game night again...at least w/o comments! awww, they are such good sports!

The Malnar's have been so fun to have live so close as well! Amanda has the BEST sense of humor and is willing to help out wherever she can! Keedan is the cutest little boy and Makenzi enjoyed playing with him...it just took her about 30 mins to warm up to him! ;)

Amanda & Keedan

The branch has been an experience for us. It has been quite the adventure and we are so thankful for the many, many experiences we had to serve and be a part of this little Branch that we so affectionately called our "twig". There were some fabulous members in the branch that made it a great place to go. It will be a bit of an adjustment I think for us to attend a ward again.

This is Sis. Lou whom I just ADORE! She is just the sweetest lady!

Here are the Boston girls! They are a fun bunch! Never a dull moment with them :)

Here's most of our Branch at a Memorial Day BBQ...I'm so going to miss their smoked brisket!

Sister Derrick and Sister Walker, both FABULOUS ladies!!

We'll definitely miss our favorite places to eat like Gringo's and the Pearland "Chickalay", FreeBirds and Silverlake Hunan. Mmmm all those places were sooo yummy!

Eating at "Chickalay" and enjoying their ice cream!

And...the three stooges!

I've missed the water parks quite desperately! And I've missed WHO we went to the water park with. Makenzi always had so much fun running around in the water and playing and LOVED the teeter-totter. Lucky for her, our new neighborhood has a new place to play of which we have already frequented and it gets the Kenzi stamp of approval! It's a must do pretty much every day!

So it's pretty much been an emotional month for me. I tend to get sentimental about things and add that to stress and not so much sleep, it doesn't make for a great combination! ;) However, and it's a big "however", we are really excited to be in Utah where we can be by our families and the kids can play with their cousins. It is wonderful to have the support system of family nearby. We are excited for Jed to be all done with his training and for him to begin his new job! It's hard to believe that the time has actually arrived!

So good-by for now Houston. It's been a crazy good five years there. We've lived through our last hurricane season and I couldn't be happier! ;)