I leave for St. Louis in 2 days! I'm very excited to spend some time in Kirksville and St. Louis with family and friends!

I think the best way to describe things with the Wrights these days is"overwhelming". There's a lot of change happening at the same time and it gets tiring and frustrating sometimes. I've decided I really am a city girl...or at least a larger town girl. Jeff and I are getting tired of having to drive for over an hour to get anything. We had to drive to Glasgow (70 miles) to get a UHaul to move the rest of our stuff into the house and we ended up driving to Havre (90 miles) to get a push mower to cut the jungle of a yard we had. I also like some of the anonymity involved in places with more people. When I go for a walk here, people slow down and look at me. We had a guy drive by our house super slow this weekend while Jeff was working on the yard. I know they are just trying to figure out who we are, but I miss just going into a grocery store getting the stuff I need, having a business transaction with the cashier and going home...not having to say who I am, where we are from, how long we will be in Malta, why we are here, and how far along I am. I also miss the cheaper prices of discount stores...like Target. Oh, and I also miss community theatre and electric guitars in church.

I'm excited to go home because some of the akwardness that I experience here at church and everwhere we go will not be there for three weeks! I'm tired of trying to make friends and I'm ready to be around people who already know me and love me.

In other news, I think we've officially decided to go to the Community Church in town. It's not really the style that Jeff and I prefer (see the electric guitar comment above), but it's the youngest church with people closest to our age and young families that I can relate too. The people have also been very nice to us so far. We visited another church in town, but there was nobody our age and while the people we met were really nice, I have a hard time really experiencing community with older people who are mostly ranchers. I don't know how I will survive for three years without being a part of a band at a church, so hopefully I can find some people who maybe want to get together and play music. Sometimes when I think about living here for three years (this far away from family and friends and this far away from a city) I get sad. I just keep praying tha Jeff will finish on time.

Jeff is down at the trailer right now working on stuff. He's coming up tomorrow evening to take me to Billings on Wednesday to fly out. Please pray that while I am gone, he is able to get a lot of work done. I know that this project is hard for him because I like being with him and he likes being home so that cuts into time he could be working, so it will be good that I'm gone for a while so he can catch up.

Well, I will try to update while I'm in STL...or at least talk Jeff into updating.

I apologize for our tardiness in updating the blog. Our internet at the trailer has been very spotty and we don't have internet at our house in town yet. So, I'm sitting in our coffee shop here in Malta so I can check my e-mail and update.

We closed on our house a week ago today. It's nice not to have to be at the trailer...although I miss Jeff a lot when he's down there. The house is beautiful though! I will post pictures once we've moved all of our stuff in. We're moving in slowly. Since Jeff had to go to Indiana for his grandpa's funeral last week, we didn't get as much done, but I was glad he could go and see his family.

I leave for St. Louis next Wednesday. I've been looking forward to it all summer and I can't believe it's this close! I am worried about missing Jeff while I'm home for three weeks, but I'm sure I'll keep busy and he will be able to get a lot of work done.

If you're praying for our family, please pray for God's provision - or rather that we would trust in his provision. He has provided so much for us already, but I still have regular freak outs, mostly about money. I don't think the pregnancy hormones help much either. :)

And, if you haven't heard from facebook or a phone call, we found out we are mostly likely having a boy. The ultrasound was cool because the technician really took time and showed us the different parts of our baby. We are very excited to bring David Joseph to the midwest to meet his family this Christmas.