Good Bye Naperville!

This post is about 1 month behind as we moved to New York at the end of July.  We loved Naperville and so it was a bit sad to leave, but overall we were happy for the opportunity in front of us.

We spent our last week or so doing all our favorite things in the area.  The river walk was high on that list.  I spent a lot of time running there and did my last big run along it.  We also went on a family walk a few days before we left town.

We spent a lot of time at the children's museum and at the playground.  This is Grant picking up his favorite stick to bring it to New York with us.  He found it early on at the playground when we moved to Naperville.  He would play with it every time we went to the playground and would hid it under a bush when we left.

These pics are a bunch of diffrent ones of us enjoying our last days in Illinois.

Then, it was time to move.

Lara did a great job packing.  Thankfully I was actually able to help get things prepared for this move.  We ended up having to move ourselves, so here is the moving crew.

I am so thankful Dad and Jase came.  I am not sure how we could have done it without their help.  Thank you guys so much!  The kids did pretty good with the move.  Grant was great with us packing things up and even moving things out of the house.  However when we took the couch, he lost it.  Thankfully he recovered fairly quickly and even though he misses a lot about Naperville, he is happy to be in New York.

And here it is...the last picture in Illinois.  We truly enjoyed so much about the area.  We had great neighbors and I had great colleagues at work.  The town had so many fun things to do, and we loved it.  It certainly was sad to leave, but we never saw Naperville as where we would live forever...and so it was on to New York!