Going Away Party

So I just didn't understand how close your heart can connect with people in a few short years. We have been blown away by how these people have loved us these past several years. Since we haven't had family down there they have truly become like family to us. They went OVER and BEYOND to tell us goodbye. They are irreplaceable loved us and our boys.  These precious pictures are by Chantel.  Not only did she help plan this amazing night, she then took pictures of the whole evening!  She is amazing :)  The detail and time they put into this night is beyond me.  They incorporated moving boxes and packing supplies into the decorations.  Everyone's placecard was a big envelope addressed to them with our new home as the return address.

Then they had gone on our blog and printed a ton of pictures of our family and tied them to balloons that decorated the room.

Details details details.....they had cleverly asked me for my cookie recipe a few weeks before and then made my favorite cookies (monster cookies) and Logan's favorite (chocolate chip).  Really?  yes, really.

And we love ice cream and so they had an entire dessert bar set up with ice cream (mint chocolate chip....Logan's favorite) and tons of toppings.  It was so cute!

This is a text that I sent the day of our party to Chantel and Misty.  They did NOT listen to me!!!  This is Chantel's reply below.  Misty's reply was "mind your business"....which is so Misty :)

my favorite salad.....yes I'm sorta high maintenance....I like a lot of ingredients in my salads and they did it just how I love it!!!

Our ultimate favorite date night place is Carrabbas.  So yes, they even got Carrabbas to cater the main course...Logan's favorite..chicken marsala.  See...I told you they went OVER and BEYOND!!!!

This was precious.  Misty's friend, Katie, painted this of our family.  Then Misty wrote the last names of the families that we love and cherish from Boerne around the outer edge of the canvas.  Then she had everyone paint a thumbprint to make the balloons that filled the picture.  The finished one is FILLED!  It's amazing and hanging in our kitchen so we can see it all the time!

On top of all that they made us a calendar for this upcoming year.  Each month of the calendar is a different family that we love's family picture.  Yes I know!  It's amazing and so so special to us.

First of all we LOVE playing games and competition....but since we have the boys now we rarely get to play many games because we always have to go home for their bedtimes or it's much too crazy to play anything with our friends with all the kids running around.  Well once again they incorporated something we love into this night.  We all played a game of charades.  It was a lot of fun and a LOT of laughing.  The girls won big time but then the boys had some lame come back idea they used and somehow they think they won.  Here's some in action....

Let me just say THIS guy is extremely competitive....he was cracking me up!

What a night.  What an amazing few years it's been living life with these people.  We love love love them.  We have already had some sad times of really missing them and it's only been 3 weeks!  These friends are irreplaceable and we are forever changed by how they have loved us and our boys.