Today Matt’s and my best friends (and good clients) left the fair city of Cincinnati to move to Illinois for some new ministry opportunities.  While we are excited for what the future has in store for them, we are incredibly sad to see them go.  The only comfort is that they will only be living about 45 minutes from our families, so it won’t be hard to visit them.

We went over to their home in Maineville today to help them pack their moving truck.  Being a photographer, I couldn’t pass up the last opportunity I would have to photograph my “neice” and “nephew” for a while.  Here are some of my favorite shots from this morning…

Zeke…my favorite lil ham!

This is my favorite shot from today…

This is typical Zeke…

And this is typical Ethne…camera shy and not smiling…

Zeke loves the movie “Cars”.  So he was so excited to ride in the big truck.  He actually thought that Lighting McQueen was going to be in the back.

And anything that Zeke does, Ethne has to do too…

Zeke likes to help his daddy and his Uncle Matt…

But in the traditional fashion of kids wanting to help and parents finding something better for them to do…the kids watched “Cars” to keep themselves busy during the packing of the truck…

Adam, Corrie, Zeke, Ethne, Bart, and yes, even Layla…we will miss you more than you will know (unless you are missing us that much too!)  We wish only the best for you guys and we’ll see you in a few weeks.