Counting Down....wait what?

The kids didn't have school on Monday - Evie and her friends wanted to get ice cream together, so I took Evelyn and her friends plus James and Aaron, and walked down to the ice cream place and got ice cream.  The kids had a good time.  We almost got rained on, but it held off mostly until we got back.  

The kids had school on Tuesday and then we withdrew them from school.  Except Anna.   Then we buckled down to packing.  ....Mostly

Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to go to the temple in the morning.  It was so wonderful to be able to go.  My heart and soul felt so much better for being able to go and be there and feel the spirit.  

After, I went home for a quick lunch before heading over to Lori's house for a bit.  We were able to sit and chat for awhile and catch up.  It was so good to see her again!  My heart and soul needed that visit too.  All in all - Wednesday was a wonderful day!  

Thursday started with packing, then I met up for lunch with the ladies with whom I've been serving in primary.  We had a great lunch and a great time chatting.  

Friday, the girls and I went down to my parents house for hair cuts.  Eileen, Evelyn and I just got a quick trim.   Anna chopped it all off!   She went with an adorable pixie cut and she looks so cute!  

My dad also pulled out some things from my grandmother's hope chest.  Including this gorgeous coat and two beautiful dresses that she knit herself.  He had the girls try them on - they looked beautiful in them!  

We are officially into the "eat whatever food you can find" stage of packing up.  So for dinner one night Dan had a smoked pork, mashed potato, stuffing, mayo, mustard and jelly sandwich on some of my dad's home made bread....  He loved it - so did James.  This is a picture of the epic creation.  I did not try it. 

Saturday started a bit rough.  My parents are struggling with our move and my mom and I had a text conversation with both of us getting rather teary.  My mom beats herself up too much sometimes.  She is such a wonderful mother and I'm so glad we have at least had some time living down here with them again.  

Saturday evening, Evie headed to a birthday party with her best friends and the rest of us headed over to the Tilton's house.  It was strange to drive back through our old neighborhood and drive past our old house.  It was also a blast being with the Tilton's again.  The kids all had a blast playing together, and the adults had a great time hiding in a different room chatting.  Before we left, we did a photo re-create.  Megan had this picture of Eileen and Sonora from back in the day, so we made the girls re-create it for us.  Such cute little girls and such beautiful young women!  

And this is the original :)  

Sunday, we got to go to church and I got to play the organ.  The talks were about the Love of God for all his children - it was beautiful and uplifting.   After church, Evelyn wanted to make cookies with her friends - but we were missing ingredients and basics like mixing bowls and measuring cups were already packed up, so she found a recipe using only what we had and borrowed some equipment from her friends houses and they made cookies...  at least she is determined!  The cookies came out good though!  

We had a quick dinner of cereal and whatever we could find still in the house, then we went out to our front yard to play and say goodbye to our friends and neighbors.  We had friends from the ward and neighbors come and chat and play.  Dan pulled out some balls and things to play with in the yard and we had a great time!  David had a blast chasing big kids all over the place.  Even Koopa got in on the fun by escaping the house and hanging out with us outside - he was even well behaved mostly.  

 While we were outside enjoying a last bit of time with our friends, we found out that the buyers on our house are asking for an extension of the closing date.  They want to move the closing date to Oct 10th.  So now we are trying to figure out what that means for us and the move.  We will know more once we talk to the moving company tomorrow, but for now, it looks like we will be here a bit longer than we planned...  Now to find out if we will have any furniture while we are here....