A little finality

Hello any friends out there still checking our blog! So sorry to leave you hanging...
Our lives have changed quite a bit since our last post in February. We left Honduras March 15h and spent the next month visiting friends and family in Indiana and PA as well as checking in with the MCC headquarters. We loaded up a moving truck mid-April and headed to Albuquerque, where we are now staying with my dad and step-mom Brenda. Besides moving back to the states and to New Mexico, we've had some other major changes as well... our baby bean was born last Tuesday, May 25th! Samuel Lamar Lind Clouse is beautiful and we are having so much fun getting to know him.

Our plan all along was to stay with my dad and Brenda until mid-summer and then find a place of our own... that is working out well, and felt very timely indeed as my dad had an emergency quadruple bipass heart surgery a few weeks ago. The surgery went well and we are now both recovering at home together.

It feels strange to no longer be in Honduras... we miss our MCC friends and Honduran friends very much... it's amazing how quickly life changes and life in the states, which once seemed so far away, becomes all encompassing. Things have moved so quickly for us since our return that it seems hard to process our time in San Pedro and Tegucigalpa.

So now Andrew is settling into his roll as half-time Associate Pastor for Youth at Albuquerque Mennonite Church and I'm enjoying being a mom and thinking about work or school options for the fall. We're not sure where the next few years will take us here in Albuquerque and so far we can take it only one day at a time.

For now, here are some good pictures of little Samuel.