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Road Trip- Day 4 Monday

Since you can’t really come to this neck of the woods without finding some dang good food, we hunted out a RIB place called Penguin Ed’s.

No earthly idea what the penguin thing was all about…

but I digress.

After lunch, it was here that we had to say good-bye to April’s family. 

They made a fast trip here and had to make an even faster trip back home.

Ahhhh…the busy life of a family of soccer players.

We even found a stray cat that came to say…

good-bye.

Safe travels Rosenthals! See you at home.

On the way back from lunch, we took a detour to see Dane’s school.

He showed us where some of his classes are.

The stadium…

the fan store…

the fountain–seriously guys–what is with all the HOGS?!!! Why would you pick that?! Haha.

We even saw the creepy old…

people-who-shall-remain-nameless House Museum.

Museum?! Really?

Blaugh.

It’s always better for this mama heart to be able to picture where my cute, wandering boy is hanging out…

if he’s not going to be with me, that is.

He has his nerve.

Heh.

 

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Road Trip- Day 3 Sunday

We woke up to a glorious, HUGE breakfast that Dane made while we were all still sleeping. This guy is awesome.

Next, sacrament meeting with the families.

And, no, I probably shouldn’t be taking pictures during the prayer. But tell me this little guys isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.

I couldn’t help myself.

Dane taught the Gospel Doctrine class…

and even had the missionaries help.

He is such a good teacher…and SO handsome!

Afterwards the kids came back from their classes and we got ready to go home.

The ladies made us another lovely feast.

Merrick chose to postpone his “birthday” cake until we came to visit, so we gave him our presents too and had a mini birthday party for him.

Then we headed back to church for the whole reason that we came to Arkansas…

Merrick turned eight…

and today was his baptism day!!

So proud of this sweet boy and his family.

Josh did the tech stuff so the folks back home could tune in.

April and Lily…

were in charge of the music.

The Bishop spoke.

I spoke too, but there is no physical evidence. Thank goodness.

What a wonderful day. Congratulations Merrick!

I sure do love these people.

 

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Road Trip Day 2 Saturday

After a quick little breakfast–thanks hotel…

of anything and everything you can think of…

we’re back in the car…

and off again.

We had more of this…

and these…

and even this to let us know that we were still in Colorado.

Or is it Colopado?

Have we been saying it wrong all these years?!

Whatever. We were here in Colorado, until we weren’t.

Welcome to Kansas!!

We noticed immediately that they had waaaay more land that looked like this.

Lots of hay and tons of corn…no picture though. I must have been too stunned at the shere volumn of the corn to focus. Sorry man.

Pretend you can see us driving allllll through Kansas and allllll that corn, until at last, at LAST we got to Arkansas and…

found my cute long, lost boy!!! Ooooh I’ve missed those big, strong arms.

April’s family beat us here by a day because they drove straight through without stopping. Yikes.

We got in so late that Dane’s family were already in bed.

The kids still loved meeting up with their cousins that they hadn’t seen…

in a whopping 3 days!

They live down the street from us in Utah. Haha.

It was good to get a little piece of our Daney-boy before he went off to bed.

We finally made it!!

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Good-bye, Again

And just when we thought we had them, for real this time…they’re off again. Dane will be attending school in Arkansas for a year and then going wherever the job market takes him. I know he needs to do this, but that only helps my heart a tiny bit.

I’d love to dream that something, someday would bring them back here, to stay.  But, honestly, I don’t know if anything ever really will. They love traveling and having adventures and being in new places all the time. I think we must just be too sedate for these little nomads. *sigh*

I’ll miss them more than they will ever know.

I’ll miss all the hugs

and the impromptu drop ins

and the lending books

and the dinner invites

and that cute face looking in my door window

and the Mr Grinch parties

and those lovely whiskers

and putting special candy in the treat jar

and going to summer booths

and the little shy smiles

and…

and…

and…

*sigh* again.

Believe it or not, this is me…

being brave.

 

 

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