"I'm so glad when Daddy comes home!"

We came to really appreciate the words to this song this Christmas season.
Please bear with me as I slowly catch this blog up with what has been happening. Those of you who have facebook may have already seen these pictures, but here they are with the commentary!

David was able to come home for 2 weeks to spend Christmas with us. We feel very blessed that we did not have to spend the entire season apart.











As you can see, Mason was more than thrilled to see his daddy again after being separated for more than 7 weeks.

The night before David's homecoming, we got some patriotic helium balloons to bring with us to the airport. Here are the boys having fun with them and starting to get excited.

The wait at the airport seemed to take forever...Carter, of course, found plenty to keep himself occupied, though!

I was pretty excited myself at this point!

The waiting was almost over!!

And the happy reunion! We were all so happy to see David. He came home on a Friday and between Tuesday and Friday he had a cumulative of 4 hours of sleep. Apparently the drill sergeants thought that everyone needed to stay up all night and clean the barracks before they left. Then they made him go to the airport almost a day early.

But..David didn't show his exhaustion and the reunion was wonderful!

Mason did not let David out of his sight most of the time that he was home. He was so happy to have his Daddy back!

We definitely miss him now that he is gone and are very proud of the sacrifice that he is making for our family.

I have a lot more to write about this whole experience...that will be coming soon!