So I've been trying to figure out why I burst into tears thinking about the impending departure of the Gibbs Family! Literally just the mention of it makes my eyes fill up with tears... I'm starting to get a little embarrassed by this constant outpouring of emotions... I'm not one to "bottle" up my feelings as we all know... but this is a little extreme even for me!
First of all let me remind you on some of the history... Ben & Danielle moved in across the street back in 2005. I was pregnant with Leah, and Danielle was pregnant with Abbey... the first time we met, Danielle and I were both waddling down the street in opposite directions. We stopped and talked for just a few minutes. After I'd had Leah she brought down a little "gift".... She asked Theo if there was a lady that just had a baby living in this house..... Then a few months later as I was driving by their house I hollered out to Ben who was working in the yard and asked if they had their baby yet... he said that they had.... and later that night they dropped by to introduce their new baby. I still don't know why, but I took a picture of Leah & Abbey in their car seats sitting next to each other... looking back... they probably thought it was SO creepy.... they hardly knew me... I doubt even my first name and here I was taking a picture of their new baby.....
October 2005
Leah & Abbey
Looking back I'm so glad that I have this picture, its adorable and it also captures the beginning of our families becoming intertwined! It's more than we are neighbors or good friends.... we were mom's together.... and some people compare motherhood to going into war.... Danielle & I have been in the trenches together for 4 long.... but all too short years!
April 2007
with Ethan & Amelia
From the first teeth, to being snowed in, to 5 days with NO electricity, thru loosing grandparents, and being pregnant together, every birthday, holiday, or just a Tuesday afternoon....we talked each other down after a argument with our beau's , when our kids are driving us crazy, or an awkward encounter with one of west sides finest.... I really can't think of many memories from the last 4 years that doesn't have a Gibbs in it somewhere... I fear that when they are gone I'll just be wandering up and down Binns Blvd looking for my friends....
I've been blessed to have some WONDERFUL friends in my life, but there has never been ANYONE that just gets me the way Danielle does. Now this is kind of corny but their is a song from the movie Barbie and the Diamond castle, it's called two voices, I know it's Barbie.... but one day when Danielle was watching my kids, Leah was playing on the computer and was listening to that song and Danielle burst into tears... now every time I hear it I burst into tears....
It's so rare to find a friend like you
somehow when you're around the sky is always blue
The way we talk The things you say
The way you make it all o.k.
And how you know All of my jokes
But you laugh anyway
It somehow just fits.... so I guess now Danielle and I have "our song"
Now I know in my logical brain that just because they are moving doesn't mean that we wont still be friends, I have NO doubts that Danielle & I will still be friends, when our kids get married, when we become grandmas, even when we are using walkers and peeing in our depends.... it's just that things are going to change, and we wont be walking down to each others houses in our PJ's on Thursday mornings or talking to one another on the treadmill (Unless I start taking my cell phone to the YMCA) OR on nights that Theo is at the firehouse I can't invite myself to dinner or borrow a cup of milk from them at 9:30 at night...
See... I'm tearing up again..... And you know what... Danielle is such a good friend that she's even tried to set me up with NEW friends before she moves.... getting me involved with card clubs... and freezer meals.... she probably put up a flyer at church asking people
PLEASE.... try and be friends with this lady...
she is a mess and will fall apart completely without me
Thanks... Danielle Gibbs
So while I know them moving is a GREAT thing and it's a wonderful opportunity and that they will be close to family yadah yadah yadah..... it just plain stinks for me.... and I know that there are SO many people here in Columbus that love them and will miss them.... but you'll have to excuse me while I behave like a 2 year old and throw a fit because I love them more & I don't want them to MOVE!!! If I don't pull myself together I'm liable to throw myself down in front of their U-haul truck....
If I could wish for one thing
I'd take the smile that you bring
Wherever you go in this world
I'll come along
I love you guys SO MUCH!!! Thank you for being the best friends a gal could ever ask for!
Here are the musicians...
The concert was held at the topiary garden right behind the main library.. it's based on a famous painting by George Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte
... yeah I didnt know what it was either, but here is what the painting looks like... and then here in Danielle standing in it! 
Leah & Abbey were as cute as ever! They loved the lilly pads on the pond and went off to explore it together! 
But we finally got a real one in the one of just him!!! 
Here is the old one... yes I basically ripped it out, who invented these things???
OK so there was a little water left in the pipes.... YUCK!!!
Gus decided I could use his help.... and I guess it worked because....
It is now the ONLY thing in my bathroom that I don't COMPLETELY hate! Our bathroom is SO ugly it belongs on that HGTV show Bad Bad Baths... Maybe I could figure out how to change out the whole sink ??? But then I'd need a new cabinet too.... UH-OH....
Here I am trying to get these stupid little plastic nails to stay on Leah's little finger with basicly tape! Thanks Mattell for that brillant engineering!!! 
Leah shows off her new PINK nails and her NEW BARBIE!!!! 
I just want to go on record that I came upstairs and found them like this! 
