It's a Party in the Seattle

Since I last wrote, we've been out sailing once. It wasn't just any old afternoon of sailing, but a double birthday party sail! My brother Joe and my soon to be sister in-law (right? I think it works like that) Diana both share an August 23rd birthday so we took them out and enjoyed hamburgers and tons of desert!

 Joe and Diana sailing on their birthday! (photo credit Diana's Facebook)

Audrey at the helm!

Joe and Diana ready for desert! (photo credit Sheri Timpe)

A few days after that fun we had our big going away party to say goodbye to lots of family and friends. We enjoyed hotdogs and hamburgers and we are so thankful to have such a large group of people provide us so much love and support. It's never fun saying goodbye, but it's nice knowing that we'll all be together again for Joe and Audrey's wedding in 9 short months come June.

A few of the family members that came to the party. You would have thought we would have had the sense to use the boat as the backdrop! Or at least the house! Oh well, it's the people who make the picture great. (photo credit Robin Thomas)

Present

Over the past few weeks a lot of people have been asking me if I'll miss the house. My answer has always been no. It is strange for me because typically I think of myself as having a hard time saying goodbye to things and moving on from things, but this is almost worrisome how easy it is to say goodbye. Today for instance I jumped in the lake and swam out so I could get a good view of the house and I was pretty much trying to make myself sad and miss it, but to no avail. It brought back a lot of great memories, sure, but I think I'm just ready to move on. I'm confident that whatever my future brings, I'll land on my feet and make the most of it, so trying to hold onto things from the past would only bog me down and make me lose sight of what's ahead.

Any minute now, Joe and Audrey are going to come over and we're going to go for an overnight trip to Andrew's Bay. I'll make sure to get some pictures and highlights of that posted before my parents and I depart Wednesday morning.