The last few days...

These past few days have been lots of things...busy, hard, stressful, fun, sad...you name it we've felt it. Since Saturday we have had lunch and dinner plans every single day as we try to spend as much time with family and friends and say our "see ya laters" since I don't believe in saying goodbye! It has meant lots of eating, lots of tears, yet very good times with some very special people in our lives. We have been in Arkansas for four years and have made some of the best friends we could ever imagine and I know that our friendships will not change, but it is still hard to leave.

Our friends from church threw us a going away party Saturday and it was just great to hang out with everyone and let all the kiddos play together...when this group started there were no kiddos and now we have a whole slew of kids...such fun!

Me and Megan

The kiddos playing and checking out Kylee....Scott and Laurie's sweet puppy!

Riley was mesmerized playing with the ice chest full of ice and eventually she started feeding Kylsee ice cubes...it was so cute!

Me and Laurie...thanks to Scott and Laurie for hosting such a great party!

Sunday we went to church for the last time at New Life...where Kris Allen is or shall I say was on our worship team! He's obviously kind of a big deal now! Church was great as always and we will definitely miss that place and all of Rick's messages! After church the gang went to eat at Olive Garden!

On Monday I went to lunch with some girlfriends from my previous employer at Fantastic China...the place we lived off when we first moved here! It was great to see all of them one

more time!

After lunch Riley and I stopped by Megan's school and hung out with her during her lunch...that was fun and an unexpected visit which is always exciting! Riley had fun playing with all of the erasers and school supplies in all of Megan's student's desks...poor kids probably spent the afternoon figuring out where their things went!

Here's Riley playing in Megan's classroom!

Riley got a good afternoon nap and then she and I headed out to hang with the Baker family...and Riley even got to hold Reed! When we found out about our move I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to be here for Reed's arrival but I'm so thankful everything worked out and I was able to be here and share a couple of weeks with him...he and I got some good cuddle time in before Riley got jealous!

After our time with the Baker's we met up with the Burns family for our usual Burns/Purcell dinner at PF Changs...Riley and Kaleb got in one more date before the move! They both had fun playing on the stairs while we waited for our table!

Tuesday was a crazy day of getting things done...weighing vehicles, cleaning up the house and touching up paint, packing up our last few things, getting our house up for rent, getting power of attorneys...we were busy! We divided and conquered since Riley spent the day with her DiDi and Jason and I met up for his going away lunch for work! He received recognition for his accomplishments during this assignment and had a great turn out!

Me and Sarah

After our busy days we had a wonderful dinner! Our friends...who are the best by the way...got us a gift certificate to the best steakhouse in Little Rock...it was the first place we ate when we moved here and they felt it should be our last too! We decided to get a babysitter and have Jason's parents join us and it was WONDERFUL! It was a great way to end a crazy day...a glass of wine and an awesome meal! Thank you guys for treating us to such a special dinner!

Jason's Porterhouse!

My Chocolate Creme Brulee

Today we ran tons of errands getting some last minute things for our trip and then met up with Sue and Ryan (my boss and coworker) for one last lunch together! I can not say enough about Sue and how great she has been to work for...it has been such a blessing to work for her!

After lunch Jason headed to out to get our U-Haul loaded up and Riley and I stopped to visit someone very special to me...Mr. Lloyd...I will miss him so much! He was so happy we came by and it was great to catch up with him!

After our visit with Mr. Lloyd I made one last stop by my office and then we were back to the house to get ready for family pictures and a great meal with family for our last night in Arkansas! I know the pictures turned out great and I can't wait to see them...Riley was hamming it up for the first 30 minutes and then we had to work to get her to smile...she did great though!

DiDi cooked a pot roast that was wonderful and we had a chocolate ice cream cake for dessert...there was even some dancing that happened mid-dinner as we watched American Idol and disco music was the theme! We will definitely miss being so close to Jason's family!

We are pulling out in the morning and it is a weird feeling...sadness and excitement all rolled into one! Our road trip should be an adventure...2 cars, 2 dogs, a baby, a U-Haul and 2500 miles...California here we come!