Saturday, September 13, 2014

Farewell San Diego

   We have made amazing friends while in San Diego. We have enjoyed our time here tremendously!! We are so grateful for the opportunity to travel with Colt for his job. It has been a tough couple of years, but at the same time it has been the most wonderful couple of years.
   The last few days at any location are always hard. Sorting, organizing, packing is always stressful. This time was especially hard because Colt has been dealing with a bad back for the past couple of weeks. So all of the work fell on me. Thankfully the day before we headed out two amazing friends came to the hometel to help me carry down and load the large heavy things into the car. 
   Monday night a small farewell party was given for us. It was a sweet send off full, of friends, food laughter, and swimming!! It was a great night to say some last good byes, and for the kids to have one more play date with their friends. 
  Colt and I often think about how our traveling is affecting our kids. We worry about what our life style is teaching them about friendship and how they form relationships with other people besides our family. For the most part they have learned to dive right into friendship, to not be shy, put themselves out there, get to know people, they have learned to look forward to and love every second they get to spend with friends. They have also learned that people don't always act, or do what you want them to, or play the same way,  but that it is still fun to get to know them and make memories with them. They have learned to look for the good in everyone they meet.
   We have never thought about how our coming and going affects others. At the farewell party a few of our friends kids were crying and very upset. I never realized that us coming and making these friendships were going to be so hard for our new friends. We were trying to get a group picture of the kids at the party but they were too bust playing that I said never mind. Then sweet little Zach just lost it and broke down crying. All he wanted was one last picture with his friends. It broke my heart. That was the first time I realized that this life style doesn't only affect us but the others we meet along the way.
   We always teach our kids to leave things better than you found it. So now we will also encourage them to leave people better than they found them. Even it is by just making them a little bit happier by showing them love and kindness.
   I too made some amazing friends. The women in our ward were so wonderful. I became very close a few ladies, that made my time in San Diego so fun. I will miss them so much. I am grateful for social media, to help me stay in contact with these great woman. I don't cry when we leave a site. I do finally loose it a few hours into our travels away. I finally broke down into tears as we were leaving Las Vegas on our way to UT at 9pm. I thought about all the fun we had, all the wonderful people we got to know, the amazing experiences we had, and about how much I want to live there someday.

     To my San D Girls (you know who you are),
Thank you so much for your love and friendship. Thank you for all the wonderful memories. We always had fun no matter what we did. Thank you for the amazing experiences we had, (naked time, singing at the top of our lungs, froyo, zoo, beach, temple, movies, play dates and just your time). Your friendship means so much to me. You all made my time there so memorable. You also made it so hard to leave. I love you ladies and know that our paths will cross again. (tears)















Until next time. I love you C,M,B,C,E and L!