Moving On....

Well, it's done,. . . Alison has moved to SLC to start her new life! We started moving her on Friday...only to put it off till Monday. None of us, including Alison, were looking forward to her leaving our home. We are all excited for her, but will miss her and her crazy hilarious antics around here! She is seriously a very funny human! I have often wondered if people that know us think its weird that Ali and I spend so much time together. Its not the norm I know.....but ....Im so glad we arent normal! :) I feel that we are really lucky since she has no sisters, and I have only one daughter, that we just happen to get along so well and also love to do the same things and enjoy being together. It began with her involvement with dancing when she was three years old, carpooling three times a week to dance class with her and her friends. Then, add soccer to that at age five, with more friends and more carpooling and games, and then at age eight add horses and horseshows and practice and training and miles and miles of laughs and great times! I spent countless hours sitting with her waiting her turn to dance at the dance competitions talking and laughing as we enjoyed watching the other performers. Many times while driving the girls to soccer games I was subject to their torture as they put signs on the car window that read things like " our driver farted!" while all holding their noses, or "our driver thinks your hott!" We spent hundreds of hot dusty hours waiting her turn to show at the horseshows, grooming, saddling, warming up, practicing test questions etc., loving every single minute of it. I cant even imagine the amount of hours weve spent shopping and going to lunch together! There have been countless nights sitting on her bed or mine talking till all hours of the night about problems or fun experiences or anything else there is to talk about! There have been wonderful hilarious stories shes shared of her time working at the resthomes and many funny stories about her training with Patrick or funny things she and Kramer do and say with, and to each other. I could go on and on. So... thats how we ended up spending so much time together. The picture I posted of her on her horse is on the wellsville mountain horseback ride we went on saturday morning. We have been riding quite a bit this spring. The other picture is a favorite of mine that was taken after one of Nicks soccer games. In September both of those two will be out of our home! I know it will be hard, but I am so happy for both of them and what the future holds for them. Life is change and often change is hard, but its also good and we need change to progress so, like it or not my kids are moving on.