We made it!

We have now lived in Colorado Springs for 4 days and are really happy to be here. I love driving down the road and seeing the mountains or checking them out on my morning walk. (I miss the Greeley walking girls so much and Bittersweet Park, all the parks by us are really small so I need to explore some more. ) We are mostly unpacked and really like our new apartment. We have a few more things to unpack but then I can put up pictures of the new digs. Its sort of hard to unpack the second bedroom though because it is going to be Jared's room but we haven't really gotten any furniture type things for him yet so I don't want to unpack our old office stuff because I will just have to repack it. So for now it has a desk and lots of boxes.
Mark has been busy setting up his classroom and yesterday I went in to help him. It was really fun and I love hearing him tell me about his teammates and how excited he is to start teaching. There are one or two kids in our ward who will be in his class. Hopefully they like him or parent teacher conferences could be a little awkward. Our new ward seems really friendly. Its sort of funny because so many people are Air Force or Military that we sort of feel like we are still in Egypt, being around all these people who get posted to different places around the world. We are looking forward to getting to know them better.
I really do think we will be really happy here. Its beautiful, the church is really strong and people have seemed so friendly. We went for a walk Sunday and there wasn't a single person who didn't say hello to us. Its nice. I have been trying to learn my way around town and have only gotten lost once, and it was today coming to the library so I could use the internet. We are not sure when we will get the Internet in our apartment so these postings may be a bit sporadic. But we are enjoying settling in and are so happy to be here.
As of the first we have been in Colorado for one year and are glad that we are here. Last summer my Mom and Dad drove out with us and this is how much stuff we had.

My Dad and Mark packing up in California

Yes, all our stuff fit in the back of my Dad's truck and our Corolla.

39 of our 45 boxes.

I meant to take a picture of the truck with all our furniture/boxes inside of it but ran out of time. We had a 16 foot truck and filled it up pretty well but still had space left. The people who helped us load and unload the truck really liked us because we apparently do not have very much stuff, I am sure that will change once Jared arrives. While I was packing the whole apartment by myself last week I felt like we had way too much stuff! We left Greeley at 8:30 (p.m.) and got to Colorado Springs at 10:40 (p.m.) Not bad at all. We had to drive through this awful rainstorm. I had never seen so much rain in my life! There was so much water on the road, imagine pouring rain and then multiply it by like 10! You couldn't even see the lines on the road anywhere. I was driving our car and was sliding (hydroplaning?) all over the place. It was super scary but we made it here safely and the next day lots of people from our new ward came to help us unpack. It was a nice welcome.
Today I went to my first ever play group in the park and it was funny when people asked me which kids were mine, the one inside me! They seem really nice and I am looking forward to getting to know them. There is another Spencer family in the ward too so that is weird especially since they just had a baby this week, when we were at church and said we were the Spencer's everyone thought we were related to them. There is a lady due in Septmeber and one in November so I am sure I can find a good doctor here which is the next thing on my to do list.