Who doesn't hate moving! We are now on our 10th place in 10 years of marriage . . . the longest we have ever lived in one place is 2 1/2 years (when we managed Westwood Apartments in Utah from 1999-2002). I plan to stay in our new house as long as possible (for sure 3 years- hopefully more). Anyway, what a week it has been! Move day was June 18th- we packed up our house into a huge u-haul, and an extra moving truck owned by a member of our ward (how did we ever fit so much stuff in our storage unit and in our TINY apartment??? Funny thing- when I went to clean the walls of our apartment- they were clean because every wall had something in front of it and were all covered up!) We then drove to Yakima and unloaded it in the same day. This is the first move where it was done in one trip (except odds and ends)- all in the same day. In town, we would do several trips over several days, and cross- state- we packed up one day, drove for days, then unloaded later. Well, we survived (because we had help! Thanks for those who helped!). I do love our new house- but will love it even more when we are better settled in and our old apartment is clean and the last bits of odds and ends our out.
Saturday we came back to Sunnyside (I am sure we will be visiting a lot!) to take care of some business, clean our apartment, and other stuff. We went to the pee-wee track meet and watched our kids run like the wind!
Cynthia especially smoked the competion- she is a really fast 4 year old girl! As you can see, she won blue ribbons in the 50 and 100 meter dash races. She was way out ahead of the other girls, even though she kept looking back to make sure she was ahead of everyone else, and her form was not the best!
Marcus got 2nd place (only 2 boys in his age group ran- Marcus wasn't too far behind the other boy). He was pretty upset that he didn't "win" like Cynthia- so I tried to teach him about good sportsmanship and that it is just important to try your best. It didn't help very much- he has such a hard time with things like this. Hopefully he will learn over time???
The best was Saturday night- when we went over the Copeland's for a BBQ put on for us and the Whittles who are also moving (sniff sniff!). It was a great evening. I have had such a wonderful year with my friends in Sunnyside- even though I am only moving 40 minutes away, I already miss living close to my friends. When I went to church in my new ward on Sunday- I felt so lonely! Don't get me wrong- they were nice and I met some friendly people- so I am sure it will be a great ward, but I ache for those I grew to love in Sunnyside!
Marcus got 2nd place (only 2 boys in his age group ran- Marcus wasn't too far behind the other boy). He was pretty upset that he didn't "win" like Cynthia- so I tried to teach him about good sportsmanship and that it is just important to try your best. It didn't help very much- he has such a hard time with things like this. Hopefully he will learn over time???
The best was Saturday night- when we went over the Copeland's for a BBQ put on for us and the Whittles who are also moving (sniff sniff!). It was a great evening. I have had such a wonderful year with my friends in Sunnyside- even though I am only moving 40 minutes away, I already miss living close to my friends. When I went to church in my new ward on Sunday- I felt so lonely! Don't get me wrong- they were nice and I met some friendly people- so I am sure it will be a great ward, but I ache for those I grew to love in Sunnyside!
I will never forget our friendship.
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I hate moving too....and when the time comes for us to move out of our current house I know it is going to be scary! Once you get a house you tend to get more and more and more stuff.....(well at least it seems to happen to us)
Congrats to Cynthia on the ribons and I am so proud of Marcus too for getting ribbons too. I was never a great runner and never seemed to get any ribbons.
I can see how it was hard that he didn't win but you were right trying to work on the good sportsmanship. The more he is exposed to it I think the more he will get it. I would just be proud of Bug if he even finished the race at all. That is amazing that both of your kidlets did.
Seeing this picture of Cynthia running and your comments about her so remind me of Jon. You never have to wonder who she inherited her competitive spirit from! I remember a race that Jon ran in when he was about 9 years old. It was a cold July day and the boys were all running in a 1-mile Fun Run. Jon ran in his winter coat and snow boots! As he is coming up to the finish line you can see his little head constatntly looking behind him to make sure they weren't going to pass him by. Winter coat, snow boots and all...he beat them!
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