It's Official!! The boys and I are moving. I found a cute townhouse in Mesa and we will be moving in sometime next week. We have been in Arizona three and a half years. I was thinking back last night on all that's occurred since we've moved here. And the list is enormous. The boys were just little pipsqueaks when we moved here...Tyler one and Ethan three. Now Tyler is five and Ethan turns seven tomorrow.
And although I was a tad reluctant to move to Casa Grande...I have grown to love it.
The things I love about Casa Grande

1. The Walmart...filled with so much Casa Grande flavor.
2. The four restaurants we rotate between
3. The occasional morning and evening "smells" of cow
4. The Beautiful Historic Downtown
5. The Shirtless man who rides all over the neighborhood aboard his tricycle.

I kid, I kid, I actually love Casa Grande and I may have a minor meltdown when it comes time to leave. I have loved the people - I have made lifelong friends here, I love how quite it is...no traffic and insanity. I have loved my ward, and my callings and my house. I really have loved my house. I remember when the house was being built that I drove all the way out here almost daily just to walk through it. It was our first house...and in a lot of ways my first home. 
It is full of memories. Birthday parties, late night painting experiments, sleepovers, baking, dinners with friends, holidays, hospitals, cupcakes, fried turkeys, and LOTS of babysitting, mud fights, and chocolate milk spitballs, heartbreaks, and best friends, college and kindergarten, and learning. I have learned more in the last three years than I can possible put words to.
So...now I am packing and trying not to lose my mind. I don't know who decides to move in the middle of her summer semester... I am also preparing for a huge Yard Sale on the 26th of June...so if your in the area stop on by!