Murphy Memoirs: Moving from Memphis

note: I'm back dating all of my "catch up" posts so we can remember when these things actually happened!

Moving out of our house on Meda street was a lot of work. It started back in March when we had the POD delivered and loaded the contents of our garage...and didn't end until we pulled out of the driveway June 9. I really think that God makes moving so much work in order to ease the pain and sentiments of moving away from a ton of memories. 1014 Meda was such a great place for us to live - we miss it dearly, but not as much as we miss our friends in Memphis. I am sure we will grow to love the Nashville/Hendersonville area as well...but it was definitely hard to leave.

Frank and Annie were in town to help us pack up the final things and get everything out of the house and into our apartment in Hendersonville. I don't know what we would've done without them - what a help they were - THANK YOU Frank and Annie! After most of the packing was completed, we managed to get downtown to spend one last evening in Memphis. We started by spending some time down on the river with a bottle of wine and some cheese (requirement when more then 2 Murphy's gather) and of course our camera. We topped it off with a visit to Gus's, then back home to rest up for the big moving day.

The movers were great and pretty efficient...the truck took off about 3:00 in the afternoon and we were left to load up the items we weren't sending on the truck. Aunt Becky and Uncle Brad were gracious enough to let us crash with them before the big moving day, so that's where we were headed. I lingered around the house a bit after Matt, Nash, Annie and Frank drove off...it was definitely a place I'll never forget and I definitely left a few tears there. It was hard to drive away and leave a place where we created so many memories as a family! That evening, we ordered out from the Commissary, hung out with Aunt Becky and Uncle Brad, and took one last visit to see some of our best friends in town - Jen and Danny Thompson. Jen made us a great memory book from our time in Memphis...we LOVE it. So, so hard to leave them...this post needs to end before I start crying...

So...here are some final pictures of our time in Memphis and 1014 Meda!