Mom and Dad's Homecoming 07-07-2009

Mom and Dad came back from their Bulgarian Mission on July 7. Chuck and his family came to town (from California where they were visiting Heather's family) that day so they got to come to the airport with us. Matt's coworker, Leslie, came over to sit with Brett after bedtime so the rest of us could go to the airport. Jace thought it was awesome that he got to stay up late to go! I'll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking...

Here's Chuck and Benjamin at the airport
Reilly and Jace waiting for Grandma and Grandpa

All of us in our waiting spot at the bottom of the escalators in baggage claim...it took us a while to get this shot b/c of people walking by...thanks to Heather for the picture!

Reilly decided to be our look-out. She was practicing making her "sign" to let us know when she saw them coming down the escalators

Little did we know, they were probably at the top of the escalator when the above picture was taken! Pretty soon we saw their feet! Here's our first (although fuzzy) view of them (on the right side on the escalator)

Grandma hugging Reilly and heading toward the rest of us

Me and my teary eyes taking pictures

Grandma meets Benjamin

Me and my daddy

Grandma hugs Jace

Heading to get their bags

Shocker! All 5 bags made it and were waiting when we got to baggage claim...here's the men with the bags

We greeted them, gathered their things, and then put them on a shuttle to pick up a rental car...bye for now...we'll all meet at their house

The cousins giggling in the backseat on the ride to Grandma's from the airport

Waiting in Grandma's front yard for them to get home...sorry sideways picture (I'll fix it in the book)

Mom checks out her new granite countertops...Kat's bathroom

The kitchen...

My how Reilly's grown!

Mom's famous Bulgarian sandles

Benjamin next to Chuck's baby picture...there's definitely more than a resemblance!

After spending an hour or so at Mom and Dad's, we headed back to our house to get some shut-eye!