Waterton National Park

These first two pictures are of the canola oil fields.. There were fields upon fields of canola oil plants. The flower when starting to bloom become a bright yellow, almost too bright to look at! Just beautiful!

 Hard to capture the bright yellow in the picture...

Ian in Waterton national park

We saw bears!! This was a black bear...

A mother bear with her two cubs (hidden in the grass.. look a little to the right of her)

Slightly better picture of mother and her two cubs..

Beautiful waterfall we stopped to admire...almost reminds me of the one in Scotland, Ian's sisters and I visited (my first trip to Scotland)

Beautiful mountains in the distance!

Update..

We are back home.. getting ready for school to start next week Tuesday. There is also a conference the seminary is putting on this Thursday - Saturday we are hoping to attend so we have not completely left the blogging world! I have plenty of pictures from Alberta that I have yet to sort through and post but there are some beautiful scenic pictures yet to come so keep checking in the next week or so and I should have something posted by next week.

A teaser picture of what is to come!!

Prayer request

My cousin Dave Beeke's wife, Trichelle, has been diagnosed with breast cancer this summer. She has had a lumpectomy which has removed the lump and some lymphnodes which were tested for cancer. Trichelle is 28 years old with 3 young kids... 6 year old Breyden, 3 year old Quinton and 1 year old Emilee.

Here is the latest update on the surgery and what is to come...

Today we had an important meeting with our surgeon.  The results were mixed.  Here is an update. 

We were disappointed to hear that the Lumpectomy did not have cancer-free margins, so another surgery (mastectomy) is booked for Tuesday, August 20.  The lymph nodes were removed and 9 of the 17 were cancerous, which is not an encouraging sign.

The bone, liver, and lung scans do not show any ‘hotspots’ which was very encouraging to hear.  Our surgeon cautioned us to ensure that we understood that the cancer is on the move through the body, but it has not established enough in those areas to be detected.  We regard this as an answer to prayer, as we were both concerned about the results of those scans.

So for now, we are both healing from our surgeries and preparing for Trichelle’s next surgery Tuesday.

Thanks so much for all the love and concern shown to us, especially for your prayers on our behalf,

A peek into what we have been doing in Alberta....