Jamie and her parents invited me to go to the temple with them the day after she got home. We went to a session in the Mount Timpanogos Temple, Jamie's favorite temple. I realized that the two times I've gone to the temple without J.J. were with Jamie at the Mount Timpanogos Temple. (We went to the temple together a couple weeks before Allisyn was born- it was Jamie's second time ever to go to the temple.)
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| Beth babysat Allisyn while I went to the temple with Jamie and her parents. Alli ate some toast with nutella- yum! |
After the temple, Alli and I went to the Williams' to hang out. We wanted to work on getting Allisyn comfortable with Jamie, and we figured out the perfect way! We watched Tangled- Alli's favorite movie, and the first movie Jamie watched since coming home. Alli sat between Jamie and me on the couch and ended up snuggling next to her. :) Later that evening, J.J. came over after work and we ate dinner with everyone.
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| watching Tangled together |
On Thursday, Allisyn and I picked up Jamie and then we drove to Provo to meet up with Beth, Brea, and Addie. We ate lunch at Slab Pizza...yummy!
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| The girls had a lot of fun playing with each other |
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| Best friends since freshman year! These girls made my first year of BYU bearable. |
After lunch, we went to Brea's apartment for a little bit. When it was time for Allisyn, Jamie, and I to leave, it also meant it was time to say goodbye to Brea and Addie since we wouldn't see them again before we left.
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| The girls hugged each other!! It was so sweet. I'm glad they were able to play together a lot the last few months. |
On Friday, we went to Temple Square to say hang out/say goodbye to the van Uiterts. We didn't realize until going through these pictures that we didn't get a picture with them. But I promise they were there!
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| When we asked Allisyn where the temple was, she always pointed right to it. :) |
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| Splashing in the "wa-wa." |
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| Proof the van Uiterts were there- Catherine and Sammy, Bert's arm is on the side of the picture. |
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| Alli and I had fun looking for "birdies" all over Temple Square. |
Saturday was our last day before we left Utah. The three of us drove down to see my Grandma Wake one last time before moving.
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| Grandma, Allisyn, me |
And then Allisyn and I went to Jamie's house for dinner. Beth came too. It was great to spend some time with all of us before I moved away.
I love both of these pictures. I'm so lucky to have great friends who are also awesome "aunts" to Allisyn.
Saying goodbye to Beth and Jamie was really hard. I definitely cried a ton, and continued to cry in the car on my drive back to my grandparents. I miss them a lot, but luckily we text all the time and we also can call each other and Skype. So it'll be okay.
The next day we loaded up the car, said goodbye to my grandparents (but we'll see them soon for my brother's graduation), and drove down to Provo to attend church in our ward one last time.
Ilarene and Jason went to church with us because it's now their ward (they moved into our old apartment). After church, we stopped at their/our apartment to pick up our mail and say goodbye to them. They've been good friends to us. I've known Ilarene since sophmore year when we were roommates (along with Jamie). They've babysat Allisyn for us and I've loved going out to lunch with Ilarene and Allisyn. I am so excited that they're having a little baby boy. I just know he's going to be adorable. I wish I could be there to meet him when he's born, but at least I'll be able to see pictures and Skype and stuff. :)
After leaving their place, we went over to Trent and Nadia's to say goodbye to them as well. It's sad that we won't be living close to them anymore. But at least we'll see them in a couple of weeks for my sister-in-law's graduation!
We hit the road for Texas right after saying goodbye to Trent and Nadia. But I'll make our trip a separate post.
