Good-Bye

As our time in Utah draws to an end, we have to do the dreadful thing called 'saying goodbye'. I personally hate this, because 1. it makes me emotional and I feel stupid if I cry , 2. there really is no goodbye's in my book. I believe that everyone that I love and care about I'll see again eventually and you always carry a part of that person within your heart and 3. it's just the way life goes, you can't keep in touch or hang out with every person you ever met, so to me saying good-bye is like ending the friendship. If you don't say good-bye, it's like saying, I still love you and we're still friends even if I don't get to see you anymore. Anyways.

Saturday night we went over to our friends Merlin and Julie's house. Merlin works for Okland also and was the other lead Superintendent with Ryan on the Target job. He and Julie are staying for another year to do a new-build Target. They have 3 kids, Derek (6), Megan (4) and Ella (4months). Derek and Megan are some of the few friends Clark and Kate have here, and I know they are sad to not be able to play with them anymore.

Clark and Derek playing with Dereks race track.

Sunday Ryan's cousin, Morgan, had his mission farewell in Roosevelt, so we had the chance to see all of his Mom's family one more time. We have had the chance to spend alot of time with his aunts and uncles while we've been here and I've adopted them as my own. I don't have a very big extended family, and we aren't very close to them - so when I married into Ryan's family- I adopted them all. All of my grandparents have been deceased for many years, so I love Grandma and Grandpa Roberts. I am probably closer to them than I was my grandparents.

This is the house Ryan's mom grew up in, on their family farm. Ryan has alot of fun memories from his childhood there, so we went to visit. Grandma and Grandpa Roberts sold the farm about 8 years ago.

Here's Grandma Roberts with Kate and Clark

Here's all of ust with Grandpa Roberts and Grandpa and Grandpa together- arent' they so cute?!