Travels.

Greetings.  We have returned from our week of travels, but this week has been a long recovery because right after we got back in town we had a big birthday party and then sick kiddos (mostly one baby).  So things are slow going this week.  But we wanted to share some of our travels with you.

Our first stop was Boerne, Tx, by San Antonio.  Chris was the main speaker at a Disciple Now youth event with three different churches coming together for the weekend.  We stayed with some friends and enjoyed our visit.  Chris also was amazing, of course.  It was a lot for him- he preached five times in three days!  The last day he spoke at the First Baptist Church (pictured below during the D-now event), which was well over a thousand people in two services!  The whole event and that Sunday morning went really well, people (young and old) were saved, and it was so great to see so many young people passionate and fired up!

After the weekend was over, we headed out to Sea World Monday for a family day.  The entire experience was perfect.  Perfect weather, no crowds whatsoever, kids were great, and just an all around fun day.  We so needed a fun day like that together, no stress and relaxed.

Here's some of the awesome sea friends we saw.

Addison rode his first roller coaster. Couldn't believe he did it, and not only did he do it but ended up riding it three times.  That's the one on the right. The one on the left Chris and both the kids rode. Cadence thought it was a lot of fun.

On the way to our last stop, Austin, we went to a drive thru Safari outside of San Antonio.  The kids especially enjoyed the little petting zoo, as you can see.  The picture on the top right here is really special, not only because you can see how thin my hair is postpartum (I'm hoping it will go back to normal soon?) but because as I was watching Jaxon playing with the baby goats, one of them was behind me eating my cardigan.  For real. Holes and all, totally destroyed. Not cool, little baby goat. Not cool.  But how precious is the baby llama?

Austin was a quick day trip for a worship gathering of Every Nation worship leaders in Texas that Chris spoke at and we were a part of.  Being the tail end of the trip and all the kids were a little road weary, but considering they had to sit there all day and behave they were still troopers.  We rolled back into town a little before midnight, totally exhausted.  A busy, full, but good week.

Big Hello Kitty Birthday post soon to follow.  Peace out from the Pate house.