Saying goodbye...

It's so hard to do, and unfortunately, the members of the White house have had to say too many this summer.

The first weekend in July, we had to say goodbye to two families we are really close with. First, it was the Hern's - Kevin, Amy, Jackson, Luke and Emmitt. They moved to Indy a few years ago and lived two blocks east of us. They were transferred to Puerto Rico for Kev's job. They were in our small group and Amy was a really good friend of mine. Their boys and our girls were good friends - Jackson (5) and Luke (3) were playmates of Alaina's and Emmitt was born just 3 days after Cami, so they're destined to be life long friends! :)

I took the girls down to Amy's mom's farm in KY to see her and the boys one last time. We had such a great time and Alaina had a BLAST at the farm. Amy's brother and his family live down the street from her mom and they have 3 boys as well (the same ages) so the kids had such a good time together. Alaina, as the only big girl, definitely pulled her own weight!

We came home from trip to the farm to turn around and say goodbye to our friends the Woodward's - Doug, Tracy, Reeve (5), Gabi (3) and Rania (1). They moved to Malaysia (!) to teach there. Again, sad times. We did get to take some great pictures of the kids before they left though. Here's one of the kids jumping on Reeve's bed and one of Rania and Cami too!

We have such an amazing community of friends here in Indy - they are definintely our family. And now we have family living in Peurto Rico and Malaysia! It sure is fun getting to read emails and seeing their blogs about life in another country. We miss them a ton, but know they are where they should be right now. God is good.

Just not very good at keeping my friends in Indy. :) I sure do miss them...