ups and downs of reentry...

Hi, all! So life back in the states is just a little crazy! This week has been a bit of a downer for both Len and I. He doesn't like going back to work, and I am starting to with I could have some sort of job... The money thing and all. We talked with someone about health insurance last night - not so fun! It's things like that that make Europe's health care for everyone plans seem good! But enough of the crappy mood - God is good, and he provides in all sorts of cool ways.
Len and I had a great time getting reaquainted with all of our family and friends. Last Saturday Brooke and Brian had a small get together, and we had fun holding all the sweet babies, and generally yacking with our friends. It's so nice to have great people to come home to! This weekend we are going to my family's house for my sister Julie's birthday, and Laura will be there, it will be very nice! much girliness, much teasing of the younger brother, much begging of the older sister to have a baby....
Nope, not yet!!!
So I hope to have a weekly entry about spain, since we were horrible at communcating while we were there, hopefully we can catch a few of you up on some of what we did there. The first picture is of our team, us plus Janell, Austin, and Greg (greg is the shorter one - we got many great short jokes in, too!). We are at the Alcazaba in malaga, which is a castle that the moors built while they occupied Spain. The second picture is one that happened every afternoon for awhile! We all had our afternoon espresso, and often some bread and olives to go with it. You can see Greg's hand grinder, and even tho it took forever, he and Len ground coffee for us! Mmm, that makes me want an olive....