Day 7

The final and last day. We got all of the packing done and so we celebrated by going to our favorite places - Raising Cane's - which has the best chicken fingers ever and . . .

Sal's Snowballs. In Utah you would call them sno cones but you have never had a real "sno cone" if you haven't had a snowball from Louisiana. I have never taken full advantage of snoballs until this summer when I knew that we were leaving and so we make sure that we go to Sal's at least a couple times a week.

Ellie and Anna spent hour after hour reading with my mom. Ellie loves to read and reads with a lot of enthusiasm :)
Thank you mom for the hours and hours of entertaining the girls and for the hours and hours of packing. We Love You!

When we dropped my mom off at the airport I immediately starting getting emotional, like I always do and Ben said, "Miss you are going to see all our family in a couple of weeks." I told him that it wasn't that, for the first time I realized that soon I would be leaving "our home." I remember Sharleen coming to help me unpack in our little house like it was yesterday and as she got in the car to leave I wanted to yell "please take me with you." But over the years I have grown to love it here. I love the things that my girls have learned from living here, just yesterday I made the girls pancakes and I asked Anna if she wanted another one and she said, "Yes ma'am." I love watching the girls chase the lizards all over our backyard. The thing that we will miss the most is the friends that we have grown to love and who have become a part of our family. There are so many memories that we will always cherish about living here in the "Big Easy."