goodbye in august

Okay, so listen. I have to tell you a few things. Number one, there are a lot of pictures in this post. All of these goodbyes were so important to me, but unfortunately I'm lumping them all into one giant post so that they actually get recorded. Don't get too bored.



Number two. A couple weeks ago I was at my sister Krista's house. It was actually the day I had lunch with Kim and a play date at Amanda's- you'll see. Anyway, I was wearing my blue dress and I saw my niece Rylee and we had the following conversation:


Me: Hi Ry!

R: Hi Sarah!

Me: How are you?

R: Good. Do you where that dress a lot? Because every time I see you it seems like you're wearing that dress. . .Or something yellow.

Me: Oh. Yeah. . .I guess I do wear it a lot.


Ha! Oh dear. I just like my blue dress. And I guess I really like my yellow shirt. And I think I need to buy some new clothes. Yes.


My blue dress and yellow shirt have been retired with the end of summer, so lucky for Rylee, and you all, after this you won't have to see them again. Unless they happen to still be my favorites next summer, which they just might be! But nobody here in Oregon knows my blue dress and yellow shirt. Hmmmm.


On with the post!
I am so fortunate to been able to say goodbye to so many of my beautiful, sweet friends before we left for Oregon. It seems like the month of August was just one giant goodbye.


Emily and Adrienne

In July me and my sweet, wonderful neighbor Adrienne, went up to visit our former sweet, wonderful neighbor Emily. She has a fancy new house in Heber and we went to get a tour and have the kids play, like old times.

Issac, McKay, Ellery, Lilia, and Natalie

I'm really going to miss these girls. It was hard getting used to living without Emily, and now I'm getting used to living without Adrienne and her cute girls. Lilia and Ellery were just getting to be the cutest little friends. We will miss them all!

Emily, Adrienne, I don't like this picture of me.

Buffy, Becky, Shannyn

How lucky am I that Buffy and her little Peyton came to visit? I hope she still loves me because she happened to come during one of the craziest weeks of my summer. It was right after Park City with my family, right during my last lesson in young women's and right before our first trip to Portland to find a place. So glad I got to squeeze in some Buff time.

It seems like something funny always happens when Buffy and I were together. This time, we were heading out to dinner and Brian was nice enough to watch Peyton and my kids, of course. Brian had taken our kids swimming with his family at a private, posh, salt water, millionaire's pool. He called and asked if Peyton would want to swim with them, instead of him and the kids coming home. Buffy seemed to agree, so we dropped her off.

Peyton had never met Brian or my kids or anyone else who was there, and all the sudden her mom puts her in some strange swimsuit and plops her in a pool with them. I couldn't believe Buffy was okay with it, let alone Peyton. I felt so bad!

All night I kept worrying over both of them. Was Buffy dying inside? Was Peyton screaming at Brian? And then it made us laugh a little, thinking about how bizarre it was for little Peyton. And I kept saying, "plop!" while pretending to drop Peyton into the pool all night.

Anyway, we picked up Becky and met Shannyn at the Gateway for some dinner and shopping. I miss these girls so much. It was so fun when we all lived a few steps away from each other. And now we all live in different states. We felt really lucky to all be in Utah for one last girls night.


Me, Becky, Shannyn, Buffy

Do you like our skinny jeans?

McKay, Buffy, Peyton, blue dress, Ellery

Molly, Kristen, Kate

I was so surprised when Molly texted me one night to see if we could get together at her in-laws cabin in Midway the next day. Amazingly all four of us were free and we spent the afternoon letting the kids play and catching up.

I love these girls too. We all don't see each other as much as I'd like, but I love how we can still remain close despite that. We've been through elementary, highschool, college, marriage, and a bunch of babies together. We even have a special secret blog- that's mainly how we keep in touch. So grateful for that blog. So grateful for these friends.

Brady, Molly, Kristen, Me, Katie

It was fun to get these two cuties together as well. Do you think Elle and Nash still look like twins? I do.

Kim and Jana

About a week before we left for Oregon, Jana and I met Kim at Zupas for lunch. It had been forever since I had seen Kim. Kim is Jana's old roommate and I used to camp out on the floor of their apartment. I lived their part time I guess you could say. So Kim is kind of like my old part-time roommate. I kept a foam pad rolled up in Jana's closet and I would sleep right beside her bed. What a good sister I have- I didn't pay rent or anything. And Kim and Deb and Jenny were nice to allow me to stay.

Me, Jana, Kim


Right after lunch I headed over to Krista's house to pick up my kids, where I saw Rylee and she saw my blue dress. Then, I went straight to Amanda's for a play date.

Amanda and Katie

Amanda is one of my oldest friends. I remember bravely calling her on the last day of school of 3rd grade (4th for her) and asking her to play. And that is how it all began. Anyway, Amanda is wonderful because she would put together fun play dates at her house.

Ellery, Gray, Sage, McKay, Halle, Nash (Brandy not pictured)


She would even put out snacks and drinks for us. She's fancy like that. And she has the most wonderful basement where the kids can run wild and more toys than would fit in McKay's whole room. The kids enjoy it very much. And so do I. I love chatting and catching up with these girls that I've known for so long. It's very satisfying to see my children being friends with the children of my friends that have been my friends since I was a child. Did that make any sense at all? Anyway, I like it. It's so fun to hang out with these ladies and talk about being moms and raising kids and old times. I love it.

Katie, Amanda, Me

Are you still here? I'll end now by stealing a quote that Buffy used when she had to say goodbye.

"How lucky I am that I have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."

My thoughts exactly. Goodbye friends. I miss you already.