Packing, Last Days, and Good-byes

6/9

Jacob and Rachel took a break from their beach camping with Jacob's family to meet us at church.

Last Sunday in Carlsbad.

6/9

That night we had a fun time with our neighbors/church friends/school friends at the Rough's house.

6/10

They woke up to a deconstructed kitchen table and made do.

 6/10

 6/10

It was seriously a miracle that everything fit in that truck.
Justin put together one big puzzle.

6/11

Last day of preschool with Miss Leigh.
The "Thriller" dance, speaking Martian, and magic tricks were some preschool highlights.
Leigh is awesome.

6/11
Leigh's daughter/Sally's friend, Brienna.

6/12

Bonus last day!

She normally didn't have preschool on Wednesdays,

but she went one last time for the PJ/pancake party.

Slim pickings in the pajama department during the move.

6/12

Singing to Bieber with Errin.

6/12

Menchie's frozen yogurt.
I love Ellis's obsession with, "Auggie."

6/12

Last time walking home from school.

 6/12

Pierce was so nice to walk them home and carry backpacks.

6/13

Owen got Mrs. Collins as his teacher for the 2nd semester.
Same teacher he had/loved in 1st grade.

Drew requested a picture with her, but did NOT want one with his own teacher.

Had to bribe him.

 

Owen snuck away from his class's ice cream party to say hi to Gavin

(who peeked out from his class's dance party).

They were awesome friends for 2 years.

Drew's best school friend, Lazo.

After this picture they gave each-other the biggest, most sincere bear hug.

Both were fighting back tears and it kind of broke my heart.

Pierce again.

He was in junior high and would wait after school most days to walk them home.

And not his own sisters :)

Another good friend, Jacob.

Owen's other best friend Westley.

By this point the good-byes were too much and Owen couldn't stop the tears.

As sad as the good-byes were, it was almost a relief to have them over with.

Thank goodness for Ellis's comic relief.

6/13

We stayed with Brent & Errin the last few days we were there.

6/13

He discovered fruit leather.

 6/13
Kitchen sink bathing during pizza making.
 

Hopefully there was no cross-contamination.

6/13

Justin drove the U-Haul to Monterey Tuesday,
unloaded it that evening,
then flew back to Carlsbad Wednesday AM for more loading and cleaning.
It was never-ending for me, so I can't even imagine for him.
This was the 2nd load that he drove up Friday morning.

6/14

The lovely (not really) art that Brent installed on the garage ceiling (where we slept).

 6/14

Turning off our street for the last time.

Seems like I say this every 2-3 years, but good-byes are the worst.
And moving is hard.

It was a little less hard this time, knowing that Monterey was in our future,

but we will miss Carlsbad for sure and feel lucky that we got almost 3 years there.

In Between Packing

 

6/2

You'd think it was Mother's Day with all the beautiful jewelery my kids made me.

6/4

It's June and Sally dictated her first Christmas list of the year to me.

In story form.

She has some high hopes.

Some friends came over for a little evening bike riding.

Justin had to try out Ashley's bucket bike.

Later, Ashley was nice to give Drew a ride.

And even nicer to give him control of her phone during the ride.

 68 self portraits later, she might be regretting that decision.

He also got some good shots of the people they passed.

I like that old man in his short shorts.

And the friendly fellow waving from his truck.

6/4

We Got Ourselves a Crawler

6/1

Owen got August to crawl for the first time by setting his DS out for him.

A couple days went by and not much more crawling was going on.

So Owen laid out his DS again, and lo and behold it worked:

6/5

He gets where he wants to go now,  just not fast enough.

There's still a lot of sitting and crying to be picked up going on.

Which is not helping our packing situation any.

But back to crawling, I remember we set out a brownie to get Drew to crawl.

Now that kid has the biggest sweet tooth of them all.

I'm hoping this doesn't mean August will be the biggest gamer.

Miss List

 

Last Sunday dinner with Brent & Errin.

Boo hoo.

Living next to them is top on my list of things I'm gonna miss.

Even when Brent wears church socks with basketball shorts.

Tower 30

We went to a good-bye bonfire last night for about 6 families that are moving from our ward.

Loved that it was at Tower 30...our summer beach spot (that I will miss).

Any night that includes the beach, smores, and fun people is a good night.

May I

5/4

 Would rather play in the car than watch Owen's baseball game.

 

5/4

 Costco with my babies.

5/6

 Snuck in the new high school baseball facility.

(neighbor/church friend Pierce is pitching)

5/8

 A visit to the downtown coin shop for a scout collecting belt loop.

That block of silver is worth thousands.

5/10

 Justin went with Owen and his class to City Hall for a field trip.

 

5/11

Maximum capacity.

 

5/16

 The "things are funner than toys" phase.

5/16

Cause his head wasn't big enough already.

5/20

 Our classy family home evening.

 

5/21

Craig's List find...awesome front bike seat that actually works with my bike.

5/30

Her first visit to a nail salon.

5/31

I like her blue better than my pink.

 

5/30

 Open house/art show at school.

Owen's 2nd semester teacher is Mrs. Collins, the awesome teacher he also had in 1st grade.

 

Drew did that wire sculpture above his head.

His real teacher is kind of the pits.

Thank goodness for a cool art teacher.