Daddy's Home!!!!

Our Big event from yesterday. We received our phone call telling us that Daddy would be in on Sunday 0900. We were to be there 2 hours early. Yes we had a VERY long day with two kids that are not use to being up and around by 0600. WE made it on post to the family parking area. That is when we were loaded onto a travel bus that took us out to hanger 3. Where we would sit and wait until the large plane arrived with Daddy. This was the scene when we arrived. Many people were already there waiting talking and very excited that this day had arrived.

We found our unit and Riley picked out our seats. With so many new babies born over the summer the first row was filled with mommies babies and strollers. We sat in the second row with a group of older children that were a huge help to me with both my kiddos.

Here is Riley and Molly waiting for her Daddy.

Riley being silly and Brenden learning that it's fun to climb up the bleachers. Not so much fun for mommy who was chasing him up and down for an hour.
Knowing that we would be playing the waiting game for at least two hours. I brought a serival kit along that included food, toys, story books, coloring books and crayons. This was a huge success has we had many friends come and join us as the kids were playing.

Brenden sitting with one of his new friends he made that day.

The kids playing. They were wonderful sharing and being very careful that they did not drop the boys under the bleachers.
As we sat and waited we has the "voice of the eagles" announcing how far out the plane was from arriving at Ft. Campbell. It was nice to hear them say the plane is 15 minutes out you may join us outside. We were able to see the plane land and then taxi around to the stairs. The soldiers then listen to some customs guy talk and talk and talk as they can see their loved ones out the windows waving and screaming. Then the soldiers begin to file out of the plane and everyone screams and cheers. Lot of tears of joy begin. We all then are hearded bad into the hanger to wait for the soldiers to march in and listen to a welcome home ceremony that sounds like the Peanuts teacher talking. It's very hard to listen to when you just want to hug and kiss your soldier. Once that man was finished talking the soldiers were released for our hugs and kisses.

Brenden went right to daddy. Gave him a huge hug and snuggle him. It was very cute. He knew that this was his daddy.
It took Riley a little bit to warm up to her daddy. She was just excited to get to take him home. She did finally go to him and gave him a huge hug.

Daddy holding both babies. It was not so easy to hold both of them this time. They have grown so much since the last time he was home. He held them long enough for me to take this picture and he handed me Brenden.

My family all together.

We made it home around 1:30 - 2:00 after starting our day at 0700. It was a very long day. It's great to have Ben/Daddy home. The kids and I find that we have a hard to time not hugging him everytime in are in reach. Thank you to everyone who has supported us through each deployment. We are together again.