Goodbye 14123 England!

The day is here. Tomorrow, the England house will belong to another family. As I sit here, I think about all the memories I have had in that house. When Amy and I were little, we used to roller skate and roller blade in the unfinished basement. We used to have a huge chalk board and desk in the basement and spent a lot of time playing school. At Christmas time, we would sleep in front of the Christmas tree that was put up in the loft. Oh the loft, where we had many sleep overs with friends. We spent many summer nights playing flashlight tag around the house with friends. When I was home from college for the summer, we spent a lot of time playing Nertz and making bracelets. Brent asked me to be his girlfriend in the basement on a Sunday afternoon and the night before our wedding, my bridesmaid's and I spent the night and got ready for the wedding in the house. I have a picture of me walking down the stairs in my dress. Then there was the fire. Who could forget about that. Needless to say, the house holds a lot of memories, laughs and love. I hope the house will bring the new family the same memories, laughs and love it brought our family. 18 years ago we were a family of 4. Now we are a family of 6 with a ton of memories together and I wouldn't change that for the world. I cant wait to see what memories we will make in the new home. I hope Scottsdale is ready for us!!!




Moving stuff out of the house



Dad & Brent moving beds



Mom so excited!




Mom standing where the refrigerator used to be with the really ugly wallpaper!




Me taking the legs off the kitchen table. Thank you Collins family for letting me have the table. I cant wait to tell my kids that
this is the table I ate at as a kid.




Almost empty kitchen




Almost empty dining room where we had 3 last dinners!




Almost empty living room




Brent & Mom waiting to go eat. Bailey had no idea what to think with no furniture in the house.




Binks so depressed.




Empty living room. Looks so weird




Empty kitchen.




This was by bedroom for 18 years. A light switch that had my name on it hung in the wall until the last minute






So we decided that we needed some family pictures outside the house. When we first moved in, pictures were taken of my sister, my grandpa, my best friend at the time and I sitting on the moving truck eating ice cream. We needed pictures of the family and how we have grown in the last 18 years as a family.