Saying Goodbye to Family

In May Julie and I counted up our possible Saturday workdays and realized that we did not have much time to get the house in shape for renters.  We also wanted to spend as much time as possible with family.  Quite the emotional dilema. Our kind and generous kids offered to drive down from Logan and help us with whatever we needed them to do.  So...we had a great day together scraping and painting.  We got an amazing amount of work done.

We took turns playing with Dax.

Especially Julie.

The next day was Father's Day...

so even more family came to be with us.

Julie's parents.

To save gas travelling back and forth between Logan we combined Tyler's birthday with Father's day.  Lindsey picked out some cool toys for Tyler.

As our departure got closer we took every opportunity to get together in spite of the distances. Julie and I went to Logan a couple of times one week. We just couldn't get enough of our family...

and playtime with Dax.

One of the few times Dax slowed down.  How sweet.

Every Adams get-together has to have some games.  We think that Yspahan is the new family favorite. 

During our last week in Utah, family knew that we just could not get away to visit them so they came by and helped clean, take things to neighbors, bring us lunch or dinner, and just spend time with us, often while we continued to work. Hopefully we did not offend anyone.

Julie's brother Dave.

The Benich Boys

Julies' sister Jamie (mother of the boys)

Julie's mom made her a plastic apron. We will have to wash all our produce in the sink with a little bleach and we have been warned that there is a tendency to ruin a lot of cloths if you don't have an apron.

Julie's friend Angee

Cousin Nancy helped us with the final packing of suitcases and taking things to Julie's parent's house...things that we think we may want to get to before our three years are over.  When we finished about 11:30 she had her guest room ready for us.  Thanks to the many who also offered a place to sleep.  We are blessed to be surrounded by so many loving members of family and friends.

Mike and Julie Grange picked us up at 6:00am and took us to the airport.  Again, thanks to them and all our friends and family for your support and love.