Holleboom Family Blog: Farewell, Megan and Marty!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Farewell, Megan and Marty!

Last Saturday, we headed over to Sara's cousins', Megan's and Marty's, house for their going away party. They are soon moving to the Williamsburg, Virginia area. Marty worked for GM here in Flint and found this new job (totally unrelated to the automotive industry) in anticipation of being laid off in the near future with the very dull auto industry outlook. It sounds like a wonderful opportunity for them! And what a great place to move to! It will be completely different than Michigan (I guess there is only a 3.5% unemployment rate there!). Marty leaves Labor Day weekend and Megan will be heading down at the end of October. We wish them all the best as they begin this new road in life and hope they love their new home! And hopefully they'll be making a trip home to visit sometime after the baby is born in January! :) Here are just a few pics, the rest will be up in the albums shortly. As you can see, Maggie had her wading pools taken over by all the kids. :) It was quite hot that day, so the kids just couldn't resist them, even with the ice cold fresh-out-of-the-hose water in them! They didn't mind the cold water at all!

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