End of another era. Matt and his brothers have just rented out their family home to Paul and Cory Cook. That sounds simple, but it took several all-day Saturdays and two weeks of after-work evenings to remove all items and furniture. Then, new carpeting and kitchen flooring -- and lots of scrubbing. The home has been unoccupied since Sept 2011. But it looks great, and the Cook family are excited to live there. (The rent money helps keep Grandpa Dave in his cushy diggs at Diamond Janes.) I asked Matt if it was hard for him to look back through all the memories in that home; his response was that it was just time to move on. He did say his mom would be proud of how nice the home looks. And that a happy and noisy family will be enjoying living there. He had a good feeling about all of it.
So in the process, there were some photos unearthed:
Not sure who the missionaries are, Matt can tell you.
The lower photo is the climbing of Mount Fuji on a pday.
The Lawrence family in about 1984. Photo taken at Nana's. Loni, check out how much Wren really does look like you at that age!
The Way We Were (not really, our Prom was "Misty"). Yeah, this is us at our Jr Prom.
