Saying Goodbye

Well it has been a while since we last posted to our blog. It has taken us a while to get settled and unpacked. Now that we are finally getting pulled together I can start posting to our blog again. We have taken a lot of pictures since August.

On August 11 Patrick rode the 111 mile Utah Lake Century something ride (ULCER) bike race. Patrick was on team road killers along with Catherine, Mike, Dad, Blake Rigby and Alex Knudsen.


He rode the whole race with Catherine. Mom Alex and I gave everybody moral support.

Patrick and I had a few friends over at grandma and grandpa Barnes house to say goodbye before we left for Boston. We said goodbye to friends in the ward, Patrick's missions companion, and friends from Patrick's fraternity.
Here Laura Vernon snuggled with Alex for a little while and shared all her mommy secrets with me.

Cyd Vernon chatted about recovering from pregnancy and was very encouraging. I got great advice from our last third Sunday family gathering before the move.

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Here Grandma Kohler let me record her singing to ALex. This is a song that she sang to Linda and Linda sang to Patrick. Linda and Grandma taught it to me so that I can sing it to Alex.




Here we had family night at Grandma Pats house. Adi cam up from the Y and the whole family was there. Grandma made family style tacos and we had ice cream for desert. During the meal Carsen killed a bee with a salad fork.


Check out these two babes. We took this gorgeous picture of Adi and Raegan while we were there.

The night before we left we had dinner with Steve Melissa and the kids, Catherine and Mike and Mom and dad. Melissa made the coolest cake with a lobster on it as a symbol of Boston.The cake was incredible it was made with rolled fondant and rice crispy treats. I thought it was awesome. She even made little sea creatures to go with it. There were snails and clams made out of fondant on the cake.

During the party Patrick gave Carsen a book about bugs as a goodbye. It was a very tearful night as I kissed Melissa, Steve Carsen and Raegan goodbye. (I miss them soooo much!)
On Wednesday the 21 of August we pulled out of the driveway and said out goodbyes to our parents. It was really cool that mom made us a yummy breakfast before we hit the road and Catherine and mike came up to join us to eat it. It was really cool that they were there at 5:30 in the morning. We love you guys so much and we miss you alot!