I hate when friends move

We've had lots of friends come into our lives because of where we live.  It's kind of a transitory neighborhood.  While there are disadvantages to living in a place like this, there are also benefits.  I'm thankful to have made lots of amazing friends over the years.  Unfortunately, I'm going to have to dig for pictures of them, so currently I'll only post about the latest two to leave.

 

Eric and Camille have been in our ward for several years.  We have loved being their friends.  We have journeyed through fertility issues together and our delightful little sons were born about 5 weeks apart.  They moved to Seattle recently (and were so excited about it) much to our chagrin.  Best wishes to Eric and Camille!  (Incidentally, we had just gotten home from camping, I'm super cute.)

Garrison and Valeri moved in just a year ago but we quickly became great friends and were very caught off guard when they told us they were moving in March and moved out the next day.  (Although one might wonder if we chased them off considering the fact that they kind of snuck out, one would be wrong.)
Scott and Garrison still work out in the mornings at the church and they still come over to visit, but still, I hate when people leave.

Be careful of asking Garrison to take any pictures with your camera, inevitably, you'll end up with this self-portrait.

The Beautiful Bayli

Singing Wicked

For our ward music night this past Saturday my friend Chelsea Frandsen and I put together a medley of Wicked songs.  I sang as Glinda and she sang as Elpheba (?).  We had been working on it for a while and we had such are marvelous time.

My Ryan also played "Axel F" on the piano.  He wasn't very pleased with his performance and is hoping to redeem himself at his recital next week.  He worked really hard to prepare himself for this performance and he loves playing this song.  He is quite the talented pianist.

Isabelle did a short clogging number with Hannah Fairbanks and her teacher, my friend, Bethany Hulse.  She did beautifully.  I love to watch her dance and she is really enjoying it.

Scott and I sang the song "Lucky" (sung by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat).  We have been working on that song for several months.  However, I still forget the words so fortunately our friends the Betham's brought their fancy karaoke setup so I was able to carefully cheat using her screen off to the side.  Scott knew it perfectly and sang really well.  I enjoy singing with him and in truth, I'm lucky to be in love with my best friend.

Unfortunately, our camera ran out of memory halfway through our song, sigh.  I'll just say that it was beautiful. (I'm sure)