Our best friends you see....are moving....15 hours away....at the end of this month. I am both thrilled for them and the opportunities that this move will mean, but also really sad. Craig and I have learned with certainty, since we have been married, what a friend is and what a friend is not, and there is no doubt in my mind that this couple has been the best for some time now.
They have celebrated with us each time we welcomed another son into our tribe, we've been on vacations together, attended the theatre, festivals, and baseball games, we've rung in new years, had Christmas morning breakfast, broke bread at Thanksgiving, celebrated birthdays, Easter, played Rock Band and Mario Kart, sung songs loud and ridiculously together and have walked through trials together. We had the opportunity to walk with them through the crazy, long, up and down adoption process, and then with such sweetness welcome them home from Uganda, a family of four. I could expand on this list for some time, but most of all we have shared the Word of God and prayer on a regular basis at our dining room table over coffee and breakfast.
Community has truly happened between our two families. Confessing sin to one another, praying for each other and holding each other accountable. There is such sweetness, growth, and an ever increasing dependence on the Gospel that comes when you can do life together with another family or families. We are incredibly thankful for the past four years with Gene and Loren and the past few months with Joan and Angel. Schlesinger's, you will be missed by Greensboro and the West's but Milwaukee is getting a gem of a family. We love you guys!
good times.
friends.
one of my favorites.
the women and children
just the ladies
smores.
ring around the rosie
our trip to the mountains
they are home!
athletic prowess in Boston
Boston Pizza
MIT. hilarious.
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