Our Good bad goodbye

Posted by: Cris

We are proud of mommy for her recent promotion to Major: The Army pomp and circumstance:


When I was so young I can barely remember it, on Father's Day, Coral and I would make breakfast in bed for our dad then sneak upstairs and put on a little show or sing him a few songs while he ate breakfast. This year, the 2 most beautiful little girls brought toast and hot chocolate up to my bed on Sunday morning and sang the most awesome version of "You Are My Sunshine" I can ever imagine. The awesomeness was topped off by the card that Nova had insisted on Emilie buying which on the front had a picture of a bee with the text: "I would totally throw myself on a bee for you" then when you opened it up played "Birdhouse in your soul" by They Might Be Giants...She's been trained well.

After breakfast in bed, we headed up to Denver to help the Goods pack up the moving truck, to celebrate Jackson's birthday and to just generally goof off and enjoy hanging out for the last time for quite awhile.

While Travis and I successfully packed most of the contents of their house into a 24' moving truck, Emilie and Laurie supervised all sorts of fun:

The "Eating Fruit by the Foot Roll-Ups" contest:

You can see Jack is already finished as he circumvented the spirit of the game by just shoving the whole thing in his mouth at once.

"We Ate The Whole Thing!"



Jack, the birthday boy, paraded his entourage around the neighborhood.
After packing, we broke out the inflatable waterslide.

The beauty of this next picture requires explanation: Travis and Laurie live across the street from the HGTV Green Home (that's it in the background). It's kind of a big deal and people actually PAY to come tour this house since it is on TV and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

In fact, driving by in the white van in this picture are some of said people who have just paid to tour the HGTV Green Home and on their way out, are being treated to the the view of the "low-rent" portion of the community complete with an inflatable water slide set-up on the sidewalk and a buck-naked Finley sprawled out on the side of the water slide.

That explanation should make it clear why the 3 of us are laughing at the whole scene.

Jack had a blast...Juneau had to work up her nerve a bit.
One of the highlights of the night was the Pinata - Nova was ready to go!


The birthday boy put a hurtin' on Lightning McQueen...



The pinata put up quite a fight but finally, the pay-off:
Happy 5th Birthday Jack Jack!
Mmmmm...Ice Cream Cupcakes


The goodbyes at the end of the night were very sad as we know it will be quite awhile until we get to have another day like that with the gang, now that the Denver Good's have become the Milwaukee Good's.

But, before we said our last goodbyes, Emilie and I were EXTREMELY touched by Laurie and Travis asking us to be Godparents to this adorable little Finley girl: (Copyright infringement - picture stolen from Pho For Five)

Emilie and I, of course, were extremely honored and talked on the way home how funny it was that we end up becoming Godparents for this awesome little girl that we so affectionately refer to as "Nova's Evil Twin". Emilie and Laurie were pregnant with these 2 at the exact same time and watched each other progress throughout pregnancy via their blogs when they were still just "internet friends." Though Nova is more reserved and Finley more outgoing, these 2, who we always swear could pass for sisters, are 2 of the sweetest girls you'd ever want to meet and I'm blessed to have one as a daughter and the other a God daughter :)