Life happens! Goodbyes, packing, finals, starting clinical work, 21 hour drive, moving to Ohio and the list goes on.
While I am excited for Paul's schooling to be almost over and that our life is moving in a forward direction I'm happy about I was REALLY sad to leave behind beautiful New Hampshire and my friends in it. It's amazing how I look back 2 years ago and see what a blessing it is that we ended up there. It was a close call, we really debated going out there for school. Thanks to Paul listening to the guidance from the Lord we packed our things and left.
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| Our car with everything we took to New Hampshire. |
We all have great memories of our 2 years in NH that we'll be talking about for the rest of our lives like:
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| Halloween 2011 |
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| Our trip to Canada |
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| Trying to fit Caleb's pack n' play in the bathroom of our hotel. |
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| right after this museum in Canada Caleb fell out of his stroller and chipped his tooth. |
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| The many events we attended at the Joseph Smith Memorial (birth place of JS) |
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| The alpaca farm we visited. |
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| Our first Christmas away from home. Filled with both joy and sadness. |
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| Sledding and ice skating outside. |
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| Our trip to Washington D.C. to visit... |
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| our favorite girls ever! |
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| The D.C. temple. One more checked off our list. |
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| The few and far between dates we got without kids. It's good to be silly and stop being so responsible sometimes. ;) |
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| We LOVED the Maple Sugar House tours. 2012 |
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| Maple Sugar House 2013 |
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| We'll miss these friends. |
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| Hikes in the beautiful hills and trees... |
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| exploring new bugs, new animals, and new plants |
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| I'll never forget the squeals of excitment when Caleb experienced his first feel of sand. |
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| We got to check "go to a Red Sox Game" off our list. |
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| The Boston temple (another off our list) |
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| Our favorite ice cream shop/farm. And how Caleb is terrified of the 'mooing' clock here. |
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| Turning 2 Years |
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| And turning 3 Years old |
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| Awe yes and camping in New Hampshire; no sagebrush and never a shortage of firewood. |
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| The excitement when I came out of the bathroom jumping for joy and yelling, "I'm pregnant!" Caleb giggled and giggled even though he had know idea what that meant. |
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| Our first (and hopefully not last) experience as a "ma" and "pa" on Trek. The never ending rain in New Hampshire made this a memory of gratitude for those saints. Such a different experience than when I went on Trek as a Youth in Utah. These youth taught me to appreciate the blessing of growing up with hundreds of others in my high school that believed what I did, when many of them are the only members in their school. They couldn't wait to go to college at BYU and be surrounded by mormons. |
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| Camping with these cuties... |
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| and these flirts. |
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| Canoeing down one of many rivers just outside our home. There are so many options for water sports! |
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| The visit from my most treasured people, my sisters and mom! Girls trip 2012 |
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| Can you tell we like this family? Hiking |
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| I was reminded of the amazing abilities of my body and the true joy that comes from baring children. |
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| Snow |
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| and more snow. |
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| Our one of many pizza picnics in pajamas |
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| The Lord put a lot of thought into who would witness and who wouldn't witness (the midwife) Grace's birth. My heart is filled with gratitude that my dear friend educated me on home birth and introduced me to my midwife. |
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| the joy of watching siblings meet for the first time. |
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| I'll never forget the joy and happiness I felt when we made the decision for me to stay home with these cute feet! |
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| Bouncing on this ball for HOURS! |
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| 2 Months and growing |
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| Dying Easter eggs.. |
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| Thanks to the ward, I finally got the motivation to do 72 hour kits! |
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| Oh how I love cooking dutch oven, I mean watching Paul cook dutch oven. |
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| And getting dirty with friends |
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| The way Grace loves Caleb. |
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| Blessing
Grace. We've learned the blessing of friends. Without family around you
really have to depend on friends. Thanks to those worthy friends Grace
was blessed in a circle of wonderful men. |
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| Bike rides around downtown NH. |
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| Snuggling in bed with this beautiful angel. |
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| And the bitter-sweet moment of loading our truck to move on. |
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Our time has been well spent. We have new friendships, new memories and a new love for family. Thank you for the last 2 years.
You have such a beautiful family!!! It is hard to leave places where you grow so much! You'll love OH though. What wonderful adventures!! Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteDAH! You made me cry!!! We miss you toooo much! Come back! (though I'm glad that we're in a good chunk of those pics, and behind the camera on others). Your family has been a HUGE blessing to ME and MY family here in New Hampshire! And our kiddos were so SMALL at the beginning of those pictures!! I forget that they ever WERE that small!
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