"Little Women" Family: Saying Goodbye to Friends

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Saying Goodbye to Friends

Our neighbors and good friends, who also happen to be in our ward, from the last 2 years, had to move to Alabama. They are military. Cayden and Dylan were like cousins or brothers to Riana and Sariah. They used to go on all kinds of adventures together, in the pond area and such. They had names for everything there and code names for each other and a club type thing and everything. They had lots of inside jokes together and just had so much fun together. Tierra and Karina loved playing with Katie and they played all the time during the summer, out in the neighborhood or in their backyard. Aurora and Calyssa also loved playing with Megan. We had birthday parties together, and just dinners together. We went camping together and just had fun hanging out as families. Grant hiked with Lee and I talked with Jenny for hours. We also were there for Jenny and the kids when Lee was out of town for work. Jenny and Lee did many thoughtful things for us, like one time when I was having a horrible week and Jenny showed up with 2 loaves of homemade bread at just the right time. It was such a blessing to have neighbors like this and it was so hard to let them go... we all had a really hard time with it but some more than others. One child cried for weeks and weeks and weeks and said they hated Alabama for taking their best friend! Hopefully we will get to see them again soon! We are blessed to know them!

Aurora and Megan= Monkeys!
Tierra and Karina with our neighbors, Alayna and Alyssa, who are also friends with Katie and Megan.

Dylan, Cayden, Riana, and Sariah in the pond area.

We went to the park with another military family (Rachel and Preston and Talmadge, Avery, Peyton, Finley, Harper, and later Rowen) that was moving, who is also friends with Lee and Jenny and family. We are sad to lose them as well. They always loved our matching dresses, as they wore matching dresses as well. Rachel could literally whip up (sew) matching skirts for her girls the morning of church. She is crazy amazing! They have 1 son and 4 daughters (1 more daughter born after they moved). Tierra and Karina and Avery

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My Favorite Part of The Book of Mormon

3 Nephi 17:21-24

"21 And when (Jesus) had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.

22 And when he had done this he wept again;

23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones.

24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them."

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/17

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