well, we're in bangkok! more on that later.
we had several months and multiple locations of saying goodbye to family and friends, and I want to make sure i record those memories here - it was wonderful, sad, fun, difficult, surreal...
first big goodbye was when my brother jesse and his wife rebecca and son Daniel visited us back in early may.
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| hanging out with both of my brothers - rare opportunity! |
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| i adore this kid |
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| cute fam! |
next was a visit from my sister susanna and her daughter lily.
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| 2 preggies |
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| lil and i riding the carousel on the national mall |
then we took a road trip to chattanooga to see my oldest friend, amy, and one of my best college friends, heather. i was terrible about taking pics consistently, so i don't have any of heather :(
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| ian and scott |
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| amy and dove |
we flew to new orleans to see our friends billy and nikki and their daughter rosie.
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| on the ferry going to the beach! |
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| these 2 were best buddies |
i went alone to san antonio to visit my sister libby, her husband, and 2 fantastic boys, lukas and josh. (ian went straight to florida for some mom-son time.) no pics of lib and me - how is that possible??
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| joshie always invited me to cuddle with him. i ate that UP! |
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| of the pathetically few pics i took in san antonio, 90% were versions of this :) |
then i joined ian in florida for some time with his mom, and we got a visit from his sister jana and her family. somehow ian and i both failed to take any pics during that entire time, except this one of bryce :)
back in dc, we said our final goodbyes to friends (of course i kept forgetting my camera!) and to my family. my mom organized a lovely picnic at the dc aboretum.
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| yummy picnic lunch |
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| mama and me |
the final goodbye was at the airport. we met my parents early in the morning, and clay came and surprised me!!
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| breakfast at t.g.i. friday's - not bad, surprisingly! |
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| weepy me |
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| last moment! |
it was great to spend time with all those people, and really hard to say goodbye. but we were also so excited to be leaving for bangkok - and now we're here!
i'll post about our new life in bangkok soon. things have been CRAZY busy, and i haven't had time to take more than a couple of pics, so a post wouldn't be too interesting. but i'll do it soon!
