Wednesday, June 17, 2009

My Maricopa/Mesa/Chicago Adventure

After Madden's blessing everyone went home except - me and Michelle (and Naomi) stayed to help Tiff pack up her house to move to Chicago. I am pretty unexperienced when it comes to moving and I find the whole project a little intimidating - but Michelle was a lifesaver. We worked so hard we even got everything packed in enough time to squeeze in a little fun on the final day. After we had Tiff's house all empty and Randy hit the road for the 27 hour drive to Chicago we had some time to just hang out in Arizona until we would fly out to Chicago to meet up with Randy - it was great to have the down time to just relax and visit.
We attended the Kindergarten graduation of Tiffany's class. They were all so excited about the new baby. It was sweet to see Tiffany with her adoring students. One little boy wanted to know "how you got babies?" Tiff just smiled and said you just get married and then pretty soon a baby comes along. His response - " I wanted you to get marrried lots and lots so you can have lots and lots of babies!" I will miss the funny things Tiffany would share about her Kindergarteners - thank goodness for grandkids :)

Naturally, I took lots of pictures of Madden - I even caught some smiles.














Thankfully, Tiffany and the baby and I flew to Chicago. When we got there Tiff and Randy's apartment looked mostly like this -








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. . . but when we were all done unloading and organizing it was looking like this -












Tiffany and Randy love their new home outside of Chicago -











4 comments:

Tiffany said...

I forgot about all the funny things my kindergarteners said, Mom...funny stuff! I think I left that "Baby Alien" that one of my students gave to Madden in our rental car in Az, lol! :) I'm glad we got to spend all that time hanging out in Az together, staying up late and just talking for hours and hours...you were a lifesaver that last week. Thanks Mom, I love you!!!! XOXOXO from Madden and I!

Bonnie said...

These babies are so adorable! Honestly! You all look so happy in all the pictures and you should be. They add such a light to a normal every day experience, don't they? I hope your kids love living in Chicago. Our son-in-law, Lowell, is from there and he loves it.

I hope you have fun on your next little outing! I'll bring the book to you!

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