A sweet goodbye...

With our quick change of plans, we were SO thankful for the wonderful Ramsey Family, Honey and Papa and the Junods that wanted to throw together a last minute Going Away Party for us. Papa and the Junods were working hard in Houston unloading their moving trucks into their new house (a lot going on for our fam this week!), but my awesome Mama and Amanda threw a wonderful little shindig! 

Not sure what I would do without her! Not much will change with us. We will still talk on the phone multiple times a day, mostly about nothing.

I blurred our new address, just in case:). What a cute door decoration!!

The hilarious, but always delicious cookie cake! We assumed that was a white cloud or sheep or spill of icing. Maybe the trainee at Cookie Company did this one. It wasn't exactly what Amanda had envisioned, but it sure tasted good!

checking out tiny Baby Walker.

Our sweet host kids!!

Great friends that will never be replaced!

cute little girlfriends that have been since they were tiny!!

Canes chicken and Honey's sides!

Our sweet hostesses with mostest!!

classmates and great friends and we love their parents, too!

These are just some good ol' boys! thankful Dave has these awesome guys in his life!

Don't know what I would do without these two. My first little playgroup friends when we each had one baby girl and now we have 9 kids together! Shed some tears saying bye to these besties!

Sarah and I and our babies, so sorry Walker's head was cut off!

Thankful for the wonderful Shermans...old neighbors, running buddies for me and Dave, same birth order for our kids and a family we will always keep up with!

Different connections with each one of these sweet girls and so fun to have all of our oldest kids in the same class.  

Big hugs!

Aren't heel with swimsuits in?

Thank you Ramsey's for your beautiful house and backyard, and a chance for us to see so many people that are so special to us!!

Here we go!

 Our life has been a whirlwind the past few weeks! We got home from Galveston on Friday, packed the last bit of our stuff on a Uhaul on Saturday, said goodbye to lots of sweet friends on Sunday and drove to Midland on Monday, July 1st. Our plans have changed a little. Our house we are building in Odessa is taking quite a bit longer than planned:(. But no reason for us to fret, we found a house in Midland to rent. We are so blessed to have it!! Renting in this part of Texas is hard to find these days!! It's crazy out here! We decided to go ahead and move out west now instead of later in the summer like we had originally planned. Dave had the week off to help with all of the unpacking, and we wanted to get a lot done before we traveled to Houston to welcome Baby Townley, who is coming any day now. So off we went!!

Saturday night, while still in Dallas, we celebrated our 7th anniversary at Chamberlains. We made it, Honey! 7 Years! (Whatever that means!) Best 7 years of my life!

Sunday morning the last load of our crud was packed! Most of our stuff went with the movers a few weeks prior to the rent house in Midland.

This little guy was our first visitor. The kids really wanted to keep him since he was meant for us with that "H" painted on his back. He must have belonged to a neighbor and hopefully returned to that neighbor;).

The morning of the 4th we decorated our scooters to head downtown for the kids parade.

Go RockHounds! The Midland minor league baseball team.

We thought it never rained here! But that didn't stop anybody. Everyone was so glad to have the rain, we marched on.

Later the sun came out and I attempted a pic of our trio.

And were done.

You gotta have a burger on the 4th, so how about a whataburger.

We went back downtown to the 4th festival.

B enjoyed some bites of our fried snickers.

Everyone dropped me and B off at home and then went back for the fireworks. B wasn't going to make it till 10pm.

Daddy took the bigs to the movie so I could get some unpacking done.

The kids have adjusted well and slept just fine. Nothing like your own bed that has been in storage for 5 months.

Not so sure about that playroom I've always wanted.

So many boxes.

First movie night in our new house.

 We got us a TCBY out here! Yippee!

We visited a church today and really liked it! The first of many new places for these guys!

Here we go!!