What We Will Miss About York

In no particular order:

1) All of our church friends and church home - May God Bless you all!
2) Great public schools (I know that sounds like an oxymoron)
3) Fall and Spring
4) Making fun of Eagles fans (their misery is really something to behold)
5) Running with Dan and Danny - even if we haven't done that in a while
6) Grilling out on our deck (see picture above)
7) The best neighborhood you could imagine - especially the block party
8) Friday burritos
9) The friends we made through Clay's soccer and lacrosse teams
10) My friends at ESAB - oh wait, they have either left or are at ABB now!

Going Away Party

It's a little delayed, but we are just getting to the point where we can get back to our blog. We had so much help on our last day in York from so many of our friends we can not even begin to say how much we appreciate it all. We miss you guys so much!

This is the ultimate image or our last day - the neighborhood gang taking a break on our sofa and loveseat sitting at our curb. We dubbed it the Redneck Rendez Vous.

A Tampa Bay Trifecta!

The Rays clinched a playoff spot for the first time in history, the USF Bulls held off perennial powerhouse Florida International (hahaha!) and the Brian Griese led the Bucs from 10 down to a win in OT against Da Bears. Now that is a great sports weekend!

We're Off to Greenville!!!

I accepted a job offer as a sales engineer with ABB (www.abb.com) and will be starting September 29th. Julie and the boys will move down the following weekend. The Lord has provided us with a wonderful home that we will start leasing as soon as I get down there. It is a new home with 3 bedrooms and a bonus room that Riley will sleep in. Hopefully, we will be able to sell our home quickly and get fully settled in sooner rather than later.

We have already been hit by the ECU bug and are bandwagon fans of the football team already. Don't worry, the USF Bulls will always come first and the Gators second. The big Bucs sticker will also remain prominently displayed on my car, even if we are in Panthers territory.

You can take the boy out of Florida, but you can't take the Florida out of the boy!

Lactose Intolerance

Carson is evidently lactose intolerant...and he had too many Yoohoo's and ice cream the other day. If you are not exactly sure what I mean by this - just watch this video and you will understand! {By the way...the Rennies understand!}

Maybe it's just one day...

...but maybe it is something bigger. No team in any pro sport since 1900 has gone from the worst record to the best record in their league and won the championship. The Rays are proving they can play with the big boys. What a year!

Aquatica

We went with my Dad and our cousins, Makayla and Jarah, to Sea World's Aquatica water park and had the best day. Cooper absolutely loved the kids play area and rode down the slides all day. Carson took on the wave pool and went down the lazy (crazy?) river over and over again. I say crazy river because it moves along at about the same pace as Michael Phelps. Temperatures were soaring in Florida and the lines were long, so we didn't go down as many of the big rides as we would have liked, but had a great day.

We all slept in on Tuesday and plan to have a really relaxing day, watching the Olympics and taking naps!