My handsom man, Brock, was in the play April in Paris. He was fabulous !!!!!!!

Ice Castle

Hello all! I am still in amazement at how beautiful it is here. We went to Lake Louise this past week to see the Ice Castle and ice sculptures. Wow! It was gorgeous. Lake Louise was one of the first places we visited when we first moved here. All we saw then was rements of the ice castle. Sydney wanted to ice skate on the lake so badly, but had no ice skates. So it was important for us to make it back. We brought the ice skates and sleds (which we did not get around to) and headed out. Due to the wonderful knee injury I could not even step onto the ice, but I had a great time watching. It was truely a great day!

As for the knee, I am still waiting to see the specialist in March. My mobility has gotten better, but there are still limitations. There were some really good days last week. Then I had a set back on Tuesday. It just started hurting with every step and increased swelling. I go back to PT tomorrow. Maybe she can help me figure out what went wrong.

As many of you know we are coming to Louisiana this summer. I am very happy to say we will be purchasing our tickets in the very near future. Yeah!!! It is quite nice that air fare has dropped. So now we will only be speding half a fortue to get all 4 of us back home. So look for us in July. We will be the white pasty looking people that will problably fry in the hot Louisiana sun.

love you all

Knee update

Just to let you all know what is going on with the double knee injuries.

Sally has had an MRI and knows she has torn her MCL and somehow lost her ACL. Its not even there anymore. She will start PT to get rid of the fluid and loosen the knee. On Feb. 19 she will have surgery to definitly repair (or should I say replace) the ACL and possibly repair the Meniscus if needed.

As for me, I would not be able to get an MRI until August (good ole socialized health care). So we have gone straight to PT. The ACL seems fine. MCL and LCL are damaged but intact. Won't know about the Meniscus for a while. PT is working on getting rid of the fluid.

Thanks for all of you thougths and prayers.

Christmas

I would love to tell you all about our Christmas Holidays but I find that in this case pictures speak louder than words. Plus you had to see to entertainment with you own eyes to believe it.

Just so you know, the sledding was a bad idea.  Waaaayyyy to cold.  We made two trips down the hill and quit due to painful toes and fingers.  Oh well, we tried.

Ok, I got totally distracted from my blog by facebook. Then remembered there are many more friends not on facebook. Sorry about that guys. You can all blame Amy for that.

Winter has set in. We are experiencing -23 celcius and lots of snow... as you can see in the video. I just wish you could feel it. It wasn't quite that cold yesterday when the video was taken. But today is and they want to try to go sledding. I will let you know how that turns out.

love you all

I know it has been a while and i have yet to update you on vacation. For some reason I just haven't made the time to download those pics yet, but it is coming. Now we are settling in to school and preparing for the cold weather. My heart goes out to everyone back home in Louisiana. 90 degree temps with so much humidity and no electricty is aweful. That is easy for me to say I as I sit here in 50 degree weather and my toes are cold.

As some of you already now, we have been visiting chruches again. We are liking Springs Church, but still waiting for God to confirm. Tonight I will go to a Getting Connected class which will tell me more about the church. I am looking forward to it.

I will be dropping my car off at the body shop next week. Please Lord, don't let it take to long. Oh yeah, you don't know about my car, because I haven't told you about my vacation. We hit a deer. Just as we were leaving Montana going into Idaho the darn thing just stood in the middle of the road until we got right up on it and it jetted in front of us. Messed up my front end and blew out my ac. See I do know what it is like to be without ac. Please remember we drove 7 to 8 hours a day for two days to get home. And the sun always seem to be shinging on me. It was hot.

I can tell you about the best part of my vacation. Seeing my wonderful friend Suzanne in Seattle. That was a blessing straight from heaven. We had a fun few days together. I know I have one picture on my computer of us sailing in the Puget Sound. That was a first for me and I think her too. I had a blast. And would have even if we had done nothing but sit in our hotel room and visit. Thanks Suzanne!

For those I haven't heard from in LA. Let me know how you faired.

Jasper

I just went through all of the umpteenmillion pictures we have from the Jasper trip. Do you know how hard it is to choose which ones to show you? There are so many beautiful ones. The whole drive to Jasper is a picture opportunity and Bryan took full advantage of it. We were completely surrounded by mountains for the 5 hour drive, which actually took about 8 hours with all of our stops. We were tracking our elevation with the gps. Our highest was just under 7000 feet. We could not even count the waterfalls we saw. Some were right on the side of the road, which of course we got out so we could play in them. Well, not really in them because the water was so cold. Just about every time we stopped Brock found something to climb. You can see that in some of the pics. Some waterfalls were off in the distance on the side of a mountain. There were lots of lookouts we stopped at. And then there were a couple of waterfalls where we had to parked and then walk to. Those were the big ones. Water rushing down into large canyons it had created. Wow, it was amazing. Bryan got some on video. You can watch it. Then there were the glaciers. Huge slabs of ice on the mountains. It was pretty cold up there. There farther we went the colder it got. At one point we saw some snow flurries. Not much though.

Well that was our Jasper trip. It was fun and of course it was nice spending some time with Mavis and Louis. It was alot of time in the car. Anytime any of you back home want to come make the trip we would be glad to do it again with you.

Now we are planning our vacation. We will be leaving next weekend for Glacier National Park, in Montaan, for 3 days. Then we will be heading over to Seattle, Washington, which we will get to spend a few days with Suzanne and Clint. I am sooooooo excited about that. Then we will take a few more days to go to Vancouver and back home through the mountains. We might even do some camping along the way. I am a little worried about the bears though. We never had to worry about that back home.

I can't belive the kids will be starting school just two weeks after our vacation. At least we will get to do some of our school shopping in the states. Everything is so expensive here. Can't figure out why either. Oh well, not much I can do about it.

Be blessed my friends!!!!!

Alison

PS Brook G. I am so glad you found me. We need to get in touch with each other. Email me! Rachel says hi.