Out the door

This is Cody and Elias.  My piano students.  They came over early Monday morning (May 22nd) - before Cody's finals (Elias just graduated) to help haul all our heavy boxes and furniture down to the storage room.  It was SO helpful.  

Poor little Sadie had just been so stressed with all the goings on in the house and that morning was no exception.  I finally had to put her in the doggie carrier to keep her from under foot.

that evening, we went out to eat with the stake presidency that Steve served with.  From left to right, Suzanne Mingus, Tom Mingus, Richard Houseman, Lori Houseman, me, and Steve.

We didn't have to fix dinner again on Wednesday night when my friend, Elizabeth, invited us over for dinner.

(our meals on Tuesday and Thursday were eating leftover fish as we tried to clean out our freezer)

In addition to packing, we tried to keep with our regular routine like the morning bike ride with Sadie.

We also got to take Sarah's two dogs to get their shots..
Bones (white and tan) and Lilly (brown and brindle)


Friday afternoon, we drove to St. Louis to see Emily and Joe and family one last time and to deliver Sadie to her new person, Beckie.   Here are my two "babies".....

We went Saturday morning to see where Beckie and Sadie will be living.  It is a cute little one bedroom house in the Tower Grove area of St. Louis.

There is a doggie door to the small, fenced backyard...

Here is Sadie checking out her new home

There is even a gazebo out in back!

It was our last day to work in the temple on Saturday but Steve was fighting a bad cold so only I went.  I was supposed to work until 7:30 that evening but a huge thunderstorm caused a power failure at the temple so they closed up early.  

We left for Columbia Saturday evening in a wash of tears as we bid farewell to family and doggie.

Sunday Steve and I got to speak in church.  Tamara's parents invited us to dinner that afternoon.  

Monday was THE DAY.  We packed up our bed and took it and all our last few items downstairs.....that family room is about as full as it could possibly get

We cleaned and cleaned

our neighbor, Norma, stopped by to say good-bye...

We crammed our Element as full as we possibly could...

And we said farewell to our home on Parker Street.