Change

Do you always hear that saying that "change is good". Lets think about that for a moment while I have a stole down memory lane...

4 years ago we moved to Oakland...

  SF Pier with SMU...

 

Derek's first first day of Podiatry School...

Making new, miniature sized friends...

 Saying good-bye to grown up friends...

 Finding new grown-up friends...

Meeting your "super" excellent twiner best friends...

Not so twiners....

Adding permanent pieces to our puzzle...

 

 And watching that puzzle evolve into something we never could have envisioned 4 years ago....

 and then some...

 So people say change is good. I agree. But right now it's so hard to understand and see how this next big change can possibly be so good when it feels like its taking us away from a place where we became a family. Where everything and everyone we know has become part of nothing short of our amazingly memorable life.  So I just have to have faith to think that somehow in 3 years when I look back on the change that's taken place,  it somehow might compare to the wonderful changes we've had these past 4 years. Even though right now, that feels absolutely impossible. So here is to a heavy heart filled with hope that we don't forget the city and people that made us a family.

And in the words of some guy who printed a t-shirt...  " I hella 'heart' Oakland". Forgive my vocabulary but I needed something to stop me from crying!