Suz's Family Moved Away

Suz and her family moved away the day after Memorial Day.  It ended up being a rather normal weekend with last-minute moving tasks, favorite family activities, and a failed adventure.  It worked out great.

Suz and Ben stayed with us for a few days before they left, which meant plenty of time
Sunday morning to make a batch of macarons before 1:00 Church.  Suz is a master!

The trick was to get the sandwiches assembled as quickly as the kids were eating them.

Also, cousins walking to church hand-in-hand.

One last sister picture (with me wearing a dress Suz handed-down)

And, finally, Suz's chocolate cake!  With crazy decorations by the rest of us.
The cake was better than the decorations.

We hoped for a fun adventure on Monday.  We started out with lunch at In-N-Out Burger

then drove up Provo Canyon to do a little hike above South Fork Park but when we arrived, it was raining pretty hard and didn't look like it was going to stop.  So we turned around and headed back down the mountain, along with everyone else who had been at one of the parks up there, so getting down the narrow mountain road took forever.  Eventually, most of the people in our two cars ended up walking down the road to the bathrooms at the intersection.  Well, at least we tried!

We managed to have some fun at home that evening, though.

Then one final game of Sleeping Queens before Ben, Suz, and Whit headed out on Tuesday morning.

I managed to keep it together when we were saying goodbye - mostly because I knew I'd see them again in a few weeks - but once they'd driven off, I told the kids I was going inside to cry.  And I did.  We loved having them to close for 9 months.  What a treat!  It was the first time we've had family in the same city (or even state) since the second year of our marriage and it was wonderful.