where has all the time gone...

our time in virginia is winding down a little too fast for me. we move in 18 days and i am getting a little emotional about it all. this has been our home for 4 wonderful years. we have brought 2 babies home from the hospital to this home, we have had friends over filling our home with laughter, i have made countless meals in this home, have cleaned up countless spills on the floor, we have had holidays and created memories that we will cherish forever in THIS home. we are going to miss virginia very much. we will miss our dear friends and we will miss the beach a lot but we will for sure miss our home. i am so used to going to arizona on a plane to visit family for vacation but to go in a couple weeks and not come back is going to be tough. we know we will come back and bring our family here for vacation but it will not be the same. over the past month since returning from arizona we have spent every weekend packing. our house is a disaster (who knew it was so hard to pack with three kids?!) all in this last little bit of time we have we are trying to squeez in playdates with friends, dinners with uncle john and aunt patti (our family here), we visited williamsburg and ate at "The Cheese Shop" for the last time, we will head to D.C. this next week for the last time till our children are much older. but in all the "lasts" we are doing, we are remembering all the "firsts" we had at these places thinking how would we ever make it through medical school? but we have and now we are moving on to another chapter of our lives. we will never forget our HOME here and all the LOVE we found here in virginia. i realize now why we came here...the Lord has a way of showing us that in the end...we are so blessed to have lived here and our family is so much CLOSER because we came here. this post was supposed to be about how in all the craziness i havent taken nearly as many pictures of kate as i would have liked to but it turned into this sappy crying mess. but there are a few big things i have learned while living here....

home to me is wherever josh is...because he makes my life worth living....he is my true love

i have learned to trust more in the Lord and have faith that everything will work out...and i still know that it will 

i have learned to be a better mom...i am in no ways perfect (i have my bad mommy days) but i have tried my hardest to be a fun mom, a loving mom, a mom that reads, a mom that makes treats just because, a mom that loves and watches the same trick over and over again or plays tea party for the umpteenth time...but i still hope to continue to be a better mom in my next chapter of life in arizona and i still hope for the Lord to teach me the things i need to learn and mold me into the person He would have me be.