Due to the expensive upkeep of the cabin, Mom put it up for sale a few summers ago.
This past month she had an offer and accepted it. So we took a morning and the
whole family went down so we could empty out all the personal items.
Before we got started we took the traditional picture on the stairs. We
have been doing this for over 15 years, and it's fun to see how the family
has grown. Jaina and Finley thought that this was the funny picture.
Here's the real funny picture.
I was able to take pictures of the wall displays and other things before we took them down.
This was dad's fishing wall. In the frames are actual flies that he tied and used
to fish. And there's even a display of flies that were his dads, Grandpa Johnny.
These are just some of the posters that were hung on the walls.
Who needs a ladder when you have a Lisa and Max.
These were upstairs in the bedroom area. They were old pictures from cabins at Yellowstone.
This poster is in the stair well and dad actually attached the frame around the poster directly onto the wall.
These girls were just running around everywhere and helping to
take things down. This was just about the only picture I got of the girls.
Melody has always liked the giant fork and spoons and was
excited to be able to hold one. It's almost as tall as she is.
I just so happens that it was a purple day for us girls. So odd how those things happen.
The leaves were so pretty on the ground, much nicer than a few weeks ago when
we were here to close the cabin. Melody just wanted to walk around and explore.
One last family picture with the cabin.
I was doing really good the whole morning, until it was time to leave. I just stood in front of the cabin
and looked at it. Mom was inside and JD asked me where she was. I told him that she was inside probably
saying goodbye, and that got me crying. He hugged me and started crying too. Then Karri saw us and she
lost it. Then of course, Brent came behind us and started being funny to make us laugh. Brent said it felt
like we were selling dad and JD pipped in and said that it was like we were selling his organs too.
Mom talked about the last time that Dad was here and how
he knew it was his last time and just paused to take it all in.
We got one last picture of the 'original family' before we left.
Max had slept over the night before and the boys had stayed
up late, so they napped a bit in the car on the way home.
Mana took us all out to lunch at Culver's afterwards.
I am going to miss our cabin so much but I know that this is what needs
to happen for mom and the family. It just makes me miss dad even more
because it felt like it was the last tie we had to him and now that's gone too.
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