Make new friends, but keep the old...

When Mike and I first started looking to buy our first house a few years ago, we figured it made a lot of sense to live north of Atlanta. His job was that direction, and the biggest reason was that our church was up here. The only thing closer in to the city was my job. Well...... things changed. After about a year of moving here, Mike had switched jobs to work at our new church, which is, you guessed it, in the city. So, in many ways it has seemed pointless to live where we do. Except that we do really like our area - great schools, parks, closer to the mountains, etc. And also one other really big reason:

The Wyatts.



Christy and I have been friends since high school. She's the reason I got the job at the Children's Home when we first moved back to Atlanta - she was a social worker there at the time. When we were house hunting, Christy and Justin were engaged, and Justin had just bought a house in this neighborhood. Long story short, we ended up here too! We have thoroughly enjoyed the last few years living as neighbors with the Wyatts. Since that time, they married and Christy moved in, we've both had two kids, Justin completed seminary, Christy became a SAHM, Mike switched jobs... lots of change. But one thing that was always constant is what wonderful friends Christy and Justin were to us! We have been truly blessed by their kindness, generosity and wisdom.

Well, this weekend the Wyatts moved to Florida. We are heartbroken to see them go, but we trust that just as God is calling them to a new adventure, so He must have something new planned for us here in Crabapple Walk. We are excited to go visit the "Wyatt Inn" often, especially since the silver lining is that they moved near Destin - our favorite place to vacation!

We've joked for a long time that we were going to arrange a marriage between our two girls and their two boys. Well, on the day we said goodbye, Amelia showed us what she thought about that when Josiah tried to kiss her goodbye!



We will miss you guys so much, Christy, Justin, Josiah and Sam David! God bless you guys in your new home and community!