We've said our "good-byes", and now we are saying our "hellos"!

Ahh, a moment to sit and reminisce over the past couple of months!! I have been wanting to do this ever since we have returned to Arkansas but for one reason or another would never carve out the time to do so!! For me, it is so important to think back over the time in Holland and hold it true and very real to my heart. I fret over it becoming just a section in one of my photo albums! I tell myself, "Kelly, it was real, it involved people, places, and real events. We learned and grew at a rapid pace. We made hard decisions, we changed while we were there, we traveled and lived closer to the Booy family. We shared our lives with family and near strangers that became like family." So, goes the dialogue in my head.

And now as we make Arkansas home, we do so looking forward, but we also look back and cherish those moments and relationships that go into making us who we are today. We are just so thankful to have called Holland home for a couple years. We left parts of ourselves in Holland. At least I feel that way! When you share in an experience like this with others you are sure to miss them and miss the connection you had with them, or even a place that stirred up unique feelings inside.

These pictures are a montage of those to whom we've said "good-bye" and look forward to seeing again, and the others we have reconnected with and even the newest addition to the family that we have yet to see!! These days we live are rich with beauty all around us!!