Goodbye, 616 Talladega!

 As you may have noticed, we have not been the most consistent in our blogging as of late...most of that is due to the fact that we have been preparing to sell our home and purchase a new home...all of it has taken longer than expected with a few more bumps along the way. It all started when a family in our ward was moving to Kemmerer and needed a home...We then called our realtor in March about possibly putting our Rock Springs house on the market in April to get a jump on the rush...that was on a Wednesday...she called us on Thursday with a potential buyer and asked if we could show it the next day..."no," was our reply...but perhaps on the following Monday...we didn't sleep for 94 hours cleaning, de-cluttering and decorating...but it was worth it as we had an asking offer by that Monday evening...with a contingency that we would be out in 30 days...needless to say, it has been a process!

Immediately, it was as if a made for television montage of all of our happiest moments began playing, "...Show me that smile again.. Don’t waste another minute on your cryin..."

 

Here are a few pictures for our memories...some of the best...I was still pregnant with the girls when we first moved in... 

 

 Max was about to begin preschool...

 and now the girls are about to start...

 

 We hadn't started our first play group yet...Max didn't know very many kids in the neighborhood

We're nowhere near the end
The best is ready to begin. 

 We were just starting to navigate in the new ward and hadn't started socializing too much yet...so many wonderful memories of backyard BBQ's, dinner parties, play groups, friends dropping by, Christmases, Halloween when my mom was still here taking care of the girls while we actually trick or treated as a family, Thanksgiving with Keith & Charayye right after the girls were born, Christmas with our Lucky elf on the shelf, elf hunts, Easter egg hunts (in the bathtub with Ben 10)...pulling up to the garage and hearing the kids yell, "we're home!!!"...knowing where everything is in the house...being able to drive home without even thinking about it...still driving there sometimes...

 

Appropriately, we had a sign that hoped, "All who enter as strangers, leave as friends... Goodbye 616 Talladega drive, you've been so good to us...we will miss you!!! We only lived there 3 years...so, this may be a bit melodramatic...but I am feeling nostalgic...

As long as we got each other
We got the world spinnin right in our hands.
Baby you and me, we gotta be
The luckiest dreamers who never quit dreamin!!!!!!