Nate is home!

Nate and Allie are our closest friends. Which is pretty cool as Nate is Trevor's brother making Allie my sister in law. He was deployed to Afghanistan a year ago. It has been a long and emotional year, especially for my niece and nephew as Nate worked at home and was there all the time before. So this morning was an amazing emotional day. We got up at 645 am. headed to the National Guards Airport and waited for 2 hours and 15 mins. There was an awesome band playing and food. When they opened the hanger doors with the music playing in the background it was so emotional. The excitement was so high and everyone was cheering! We left the hanger and got to watch as the plane drove in with 6 or so Cop cars leading the way in front of it. It was impossible not being emotional through this and as they stopped the plan and opened the doors and the soldiers came out. Everyone cheering and looking for their loved ones. It was so insanely cold (and my kids were really done by this point, except for the moments Caleb wanted to get on the plane he called a ROCKET). No matter how cold it was it was still so worth it to feel that moment and be apart of it. Such an emotional and amazing experience. We are so happy he is home safe! I will have to post more pictures later. I took a lot on Allies camera so I don't have them right now.

After the airport we all went to Callie's home (Trevor's mom) and had lunch and enjoyed everyone's company. Unfortinatly Trevor is really sick so he was a bit miserable this whole time but totally a trooper. Tonight he is looking like he is on his death bed and probably should have stayed in bed all day. But somethings are more important then being sick and only happen once in a lifetime.