A river runs through it...don't go chasing waterfalls

How Majestic is Your name in all the earth

horsing around

Today was adventure day. we took a 3 hour horseback ride up a mountain to the Lake Agnes Teahouse.
My horse was "General" and bruce, appropriately, rode "Licorice". =)

It was breathtakingly beautiful. (more pics to come, quade wanted to see pics of the horses.)

This pic is of bruce and i after the ride, with our destination behind us,
right above the treeline, in the bend of the white part of the mountain.

message to the boys

relaxation and downtown banff

Sunday we slept in...hallelujah! We watched the US beat China in basketball while we drank coffee and ate pastries. Then we went down to the indoor pool/spa area and soaked in the hot tub. AHHHH!!!!

Then we got ready to head downtown for some lunch and shopping.

This is downtown Banff:

We found a cute little restaurant with outdoor seating (which was great until it started to rain...it's okay. we just moved our food inside and stayed for some dessert until it stopped raining).

We did some shopping for the boys and then saw a movie in their cute little movie theater.

All in all, a nice relaxing day!

love you quade and price!!

hello grandparents, hello freedom!

We are sooooo grateful for my parents and their willingness to fly down to Dallas and take care of our boys for the next week. I'm hoping that the week is a joyful as this moment.

I will be posting some this week, primarily for Quade. Last time we left town it was helpful for him to see pics of us and what we were doing while we were away.

The morning we left for our flight we decided to take quade out to get donuts, so he could have some special mommy/daddy time. He was definitely more aware of our leaving and was angry a few days ago...so i made a sticker chart that he could put a sticker on each day we were gone.

He was so sweet (so were the donuts)...i actually cried a little while we were sitting there, as i thought about how much i would miss my little boys.

don't worry i'm doing okay now. we are officially in Banff, Canada and loving life.

Here is a pic of us in our hotel room. The next two pics are of views out of our hotel window. More gorgeous pics to come!

Love of the game...

transcends internationally.

last friday night we went to a Texas Rangers game with friends of ours who are living in Fort Worth attending Southwestern Theological Seminary, but moved here from Nagaland India.

Their 5 year old son was SOOO excited about attending the game. He and quade had a wonderful time cheering on the Rangers and getting swept up in all the excitement. I must admit that i had an extremely overwhelming sense of happiness when a Ranger hit a homerun: the music swelled, the fireworks went off and hoards of young boys raced to grab the desired ball...to have one victorious little boy hold the ball up with pride and pure joy, a gigantic smile across his face.

Here are a couple video clips of the boys: