He is Home!

Jimmy has been home for 20 days!  I cannot even begin to tell you how happy this makes me.  It is such an amazing feeling to have my husband back home and my family back together!  I'm pretty sure I've repeated the words, "I'm so happy to have you back!"  at least a thousand times.  It's great to hear his laugh and voice in the next room, to watch him play with Evan, to see his shoes by the front door.  And, as much as I despise doing laundry, it's great to see his dirty clothes in the hamper again.  (Don't worry, I'm sure the later will wear off and my ability to put off laundry as long as possible will come back and I'll be cursing those dirty clothes real soon...)

Jimmy has been on his R&R (rest and relaxation) since he has been home.  We have had a lot of fun during his time off.  We went to Sea World for the first time which was a blast.  My only regret is that we had not visited sooner!!  We took a day trip to Austin to visit the Texas Capital and the Austin Children's Museum.  Austin is an amazing city.  We celebrated (some of us celebrated more than others...Jimmy :) Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg, a cute little village about an hour north of San Antonio.  We also spent a day in downtown San Antonio enjoying the Riverwalk, Shilo's Deli, and the San Antonio Children's Museum.  I have a ton of pictures and I will be blogging about all the fun stuff we did and experienced!

Here are some pictures of Jimmy's homecoming!

This was some of the people who made the trip to the airport to welcome Jimmy home.

Thank you to everyone that came.  It was so wonderful to see all of you and to celebrate

with you!

Evan was such a trooper!  It was way past his bedtime, but he held out and behaved so well!

He was just super excited to see his Daddy again.

Evan and his friend Lilly.  Lilly was teaching Evan how to proudly wave his flag!

The moment I had been waiting so long for... 

One of my favorite parts of the evening...

This gentleman is a WWII veteran who was in town for a ceremony honoring him and his service to our country.

He quietly walked up to Jimmy, introduced himself, shook his hand, and thanked him for his service.

Amazing.

Together again!