living in the now

college bound

we took aubrey down to college a week ago.

seeing aubrey say goodbye with her brothers and sister was hard and very touching.

it was nice to see the love that they have for each other,

sometimes i wonder if they even like each other what with all the fighting that goes on between them sometimes.

after the goodbyes were said regan, aubrey and i got in the car and started the drive.

none of us said very much for awhile....i think we were all processing what was REALLY going on.

we were all pretty nervous

once we got to the school the unpacking began and let me tell you aubrey brought WAY too much..tee hee.

aubrey has an enormous amount of clothes and it wasn't going to all fit in the closet.

gotta love girls and clothes.

we ended up bringing a good portion of it back with us.

after we got her settled

and

got her room decorated

it was time to say our good byes.

to my surprise it wasn't as hard as i had imagined.

i was happy for her

i was excited for her to have this really neat experience

i was really proud and happy

i didn't cry at all

this is a rare thing for me

i am a real cry-er

aubrey is a cry-er too

(she got this from me....poor kid)

but she didn't cry either

we both must be growing up

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life around here will be different without aubrey

but

thank goodness for

text messaging

and

facebook

:)

aubrey and the family at her going away bbq

the silly siblings

her cute room

as we were gettin in our car to leave

aubrey got in a truck with 2 guys

and took off

oh boy!!!!!!

college life