Good bye Guymons

Finally they are gone....

I am sad. I must have said this a thousand times. I did not want my children to lose their friends... I did not want my young women to lose such a great leader. I did not want to lose such good tennis players. I did not want to lose such a good seamstress. I did not want to lose such a wonderful priesthood holder. I did not want to lose such a beautiful becca. I did not want to lose a friend that has come to mean so much to me in the short year that i have known her.Most selfishly i did not want Rachelle to leave.

Late last night I dropped by their house to pick up some pants she tailored for taylor. hahaha. While i was there I decided to stay and help clean house because it was 10:45pm and they still had a lot to do. I swept, mopped, wiped down and chatted.

when i finally left 12:15am they were finishing up and planning on leaving by 6am that morning. Ron and Rachelle walked me out and i hugged them both one last time. Now i am sure that i will see them again . And i know for sure that i will talk to them again, but it was a bit heart wrenching to pull out of their drive way and see them, hugging onto each other waving goodbye. I rolled down my window and told Rachelle, no crying! She laughed and sounded as though she had already started.

Driving away i got a little teary eyed. Sure i had told her to please not leave, and sure i had given her a goodbye bbq, a goodbye note, a goodbye present, one last tennis game, one last play date, a goodbye yw card/pics, you get the point... i had said good bye in so many ways without crying that i thought i was good. No tears, end of story. After all she wasn't my first friend that i had made since moving here who has left and she wouldn't be my last .... But when you are both stay at home moms, in the same calling, in the same branch, already seeing each other Wednesdays and Sunday's. You have the same amount of kids who are roughly the same age, who enjoy playing together.... you get close. You confide some secrets, rely on one another to watch each others kids at the park.

I still haven't told my children that their friends are gone and not coming back. Brody will be the saddest. He really liked all the Guymons. He liked hanging out with Ron, flirting with Rachelle, kung fu fighting with Ronnie, playing trains with Jace, and giving food to Becca. Boston wont know what hit him, when he comes back from vacation.... And poor Brynden wont have his girlfriend, Becca, who he loves to feed by hand.

Its just a sad thing to wave goodbye to a friend who has come to mean more to you than you expected in such a short time. I will miss all the Guymon's. We will all miss them. And darn them, they are so good they make you sick, and want to be a better person, without hating them too much.

Chelle you better keep in touch.....