Goodbye Ryles! We love you!

Brian and I are friends with a great group in Champaign filled with tons of kids all the same age as ours! It's been so fun sharing our lives together for the past 4 years. One of the families, the Ryles, is moving to Ft. Wurth, Texas in a week. Tonight we had our going away party for them!

Some of the kids had their Tex Mex potluck dinner outside on the deck!
Get 14 kids together and there is bound to be lots of running, lots of laughing, and tons of imagination!

The kids, minus Allyson who is off camera

The kids with Allyson but now without Joshua, who crawled away

All 14 kids!

We all chipped in and got Steph and Scott and Cameron and Zachary a basket full of items....Illini shirts, Centennial HS stuff, Illini flag, local wine, local BBQ sauce, and more. It also had a beautiful picture book of all of us and our families and kids and our many gathers together so they would always remember us! The Eckhardts also made them a DVD with pictures and video!

The group!

The girls!

The guys...only one guy missing- Clint!

The kids loved Fake Fried Icecream( made with corn flakes)

Stephanie, Scott, Cameron, and Zachary- we love you and will miss you tons when you move to Texas! This will be such and exciting journey for you all and we wish you all the best. We are so proud of you! Have fun and know we will always be here for you!