Audubon, IOWA

this seems to be the most efficient way of communicating to everyone now so i am grateful for the fellow bloggers who inspired us! we have no internet at my mom's house so i'm not sure how often this will happen here in IOWA and then i fear colorado will be even less???? i hope we don't lose friends over the lack of communication. phone service isn't so great here either but know that miss the california crowd like crazy.
i just left the boys to plant flowers with grandma and i am sure they will chase the birds, squirrels and spiders they are finding left and right to their amazement! and hazel and i ventured uptown to the bank. we started a bank account and it only took 15 min. and 10 of that was talking with the lady about our lives now! i love small town for that reason! just because they know me i can get a bank account! yeah!
i also had to drop off a pair of shoes for my niece hannah at the middle school this morning and it was funny to enter the building after such a long time. everything seemed smaller than what i remembered it. i guess i have grown :D
greg and my brother clint are mosaicing at the moment and i am holding hazel on my lap. she is screaming to all of you in there and saying "ki...ga...ki...go" cuz we just saw pictures of malachi and gavin and she wants to return to that page...not this boring writing! how we miss our little people too...pictures don't cut it and they want to "play" with old friends too

what else do you talk about in a small town, but the weather...it's humid...chily...yet hot...it's hard to wear the right clothes...and it looks like it's going to storm ever since we left kansas...wierd weather...and i know that cali is better cuz i talked to chrissy and she was headed for the beach...whatever
one other thing is that it's fun to see people i knew back in the day and they look exactly the same! old teachers at a track meet,...they just have gray hairs now...people i went to school with and them having kids in school with my nieces and nephews...i see them working around town doing grown-up jobs...i don't feel grown up yet...but they look it.
the kids are loving the hang out time with thier nieces and nephews...my sister lives on an farm with animals so that is the best when we get to go over the "bumps" (hills) to get to their house to see the baby kitties and 4 dogs and sheep and a horse. my brother lives behind the houses across the street from my mom so it's easy to get there and we do or they come over cuz gavin is our social light inviting everyone everywhere. the kids are settling so that makes life easier when they are happy. my mom's house is referred to as "iowa" and if we are away from it...they want to return to "iowa"

so much to say and yet i don't even have the words to describe our hearts yet. we mourn, we hope, we get excited, we anticipate, we mourn again so i guess this is a time to be processing and maybe that is another reason why it's hard to communicate? but we still need M&M's to keep the thoughts of JOY running...God is so faithful to us and we feel and see His hand so in that we reassure ourselves that life is good and this process is needed to move on.