Candace's Photography Blog Has Moved... The Banks Bunch blog is still here....

I have decided that it would be best to move my photography blog to a new site...I will continue to post family updates at this blog.

Please visit my photography site at:

http://candacejbanks.blogspot.com

Blessings,
Candace

Friday, July 20, 2007

On the Way

Well, I'm somewhere between Abilene and the Middle East. (Can't say just yet.) We left this morning, just before noon. Flew to Bangor, Maine, which was an awesome experience. They have a group of mostly retired aged vets that run a military member welcome center there in the airport. Most large airports have a USO office and lounge but Bangor's airport is about the same size as the Abilene airport. So the people in the area took it upon themselves to care for traveling servicemen and women.
They had a large welcoming line, telling us thank you and shaking our hands. If you've ever spoken to a Mainer, you know their accent is very different from the Texan twang. They were all fine people. They also provided, through donations from local businesses, free cell phones for us to use to call home and free cookies and candy to keep us fat and happy while we waited for our plane to be fueled and cleaned. It's good to know that there are still good people throughout this country.
Then as quickly as we came we were off again. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep on the next leg of the trip. I don't really know what to expect when we show up for duty. Will we get some time to settle in and sleep off the jet lag? Will we just get right to it? We'll see.
Candace, I love you. Kiss the boys for dad.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Last Day with Daddy...

Well, tomorrow is the big day and so we had plenty of daddy time today...we went to Jacob's Dream (I know, I know...this may seem sooo last week for some of you, but our kiddos LOVE IT!), we ate at the Sonic on Judge Ely & played, napped, and then went to one of the pools on Dyess... And you know me, I had the camera handy for it all...


It was such a beautiful day...the angels looked amazing against the blue sky....


Do you see the little birdie??...even he wants to be close to God!!!....

Couldn't see it, look a little closer this time....


Kelly?...?....do you really thing you can climb that ladder?



I have a thing about photographing nature...specifically plants...God's creativity just amazes me...




Just a little kiss on the shoulder...


"I WILL NOT LOOK AT YOU..."


"Take a picture of me...ok, now let me look at it..."


There's a bug in the water...too bad I don't know how to upload video b/c I got the funniest video of the boys with the bug!! (if anyone knows how to do this on blogger, PLEASE let me know!!)




Brendan's our little acrobat....




Corbin, on the other hand, is not so much




At the Herritage swimming pool (on Dyess)
































Time to go home....


I have to say that our last day with Daddy was bitter sweet. We had a lot of fun and made a lot of memories. I know that the boys have no clue that Kelly will be gone for a long time and it is so painful for me to think about them missing him....but...
I am so proud of him for who he is and for bravely serving our country. I am so thankful that there are good, fair, honest, trustworthy, Christian, loyal, dependable people like Kelly who serve our country because they believe in freedom, they believe in democracy, they believe in the USA!

Sweet Little Addison Jo Adkins...

One of our closest friends, Lisa & Andy Adkins welcomed Addison Jo into their world yesterday... We went to see them in the hospital today and here's a few pics that I took...