HE'S BACK!!!!

Well, after 2 VERY long years, my one and only little brother Jeffrey is HOME!!!

 Having sent off a few missionaries myself, haha (ok most were friends, but I sent off a few best friends, one day I sent off my best friend Zach :( and Trent(my hubby) on a mission on the same day, so I knew they were long and hard to say good bye to.)

But for some reason Jeff's missoin seemed so long and I couldn't wait to have him back.

Here's my cute family all ready and trying to wait patient at the airport. And boy did we wait and wait and wait!

 My mom made all the little girls skirts made from fabric my brother sent home from Africa.  They turned out so cute. She also made the little boys ties, but they wore those to the homecoming.

These are the three babies my brother did not know, Finn, Paisley, and Violet.

My brother is the cutest Uncle ever!

And he was so sad to miss 3 babies while he was gone.

 One of our favorite lines from a movie to say is, "ITS TODAY! ITS TODAY!"(said with a lisp) Its from Stuart Little. We say it whenever its a big exciting day.

So we got Bo saying it and it was so dang funny!

For those of you that don't know, about 8 years ago my sister Amy went to Ghana, Africa on I guess what you would call was a service mission. So when Jeff got his call to Ghana, Africa we thought he was joking.

It has been so fun for her to hear about his mission and all the places he served.

When she came home she brought a bunch of clothes and so Bo is wearing one of those outfits.

 The kids held these signs for I swear almost and hour!

Obruni means, White person I think. Thats what all the little kids would call him.

 Don't I have the cutests parents ever? I was so happy for them to have their son home!

 And finally the moment we were all waiting for!

I saw him first and jumped and screamed and everyonen followed. I think we embarrassed him a bit. I was bawling my head off. He looked so handsome as always and so happy!

And looked older too!

 Waiting to hug my mom! Tears!

 I love this picture!

Do you seem my dad over here in the courner? Makes me cry just seeing it! He's covering his face crying.  So Proud!

My dad finally got a turn!

 I wasn't sure what Finn would do when he say Jeff, but he loved him!

I think talking about him a lot ad showing him pictures helped.

He ran right up to him and wanted a kiss.

 The siblings all back together again! Can you tell I was crying?

 Silly Jeff!

I'd say his shoes sum it all up.

Its so good to have him home! 

He is still the same old funny, crazy, outgoing, happy Jeff. 

But a more matured and spiritual. 

His homecoming was amazing! 

I truly was so proud of him and so happy and glad to have him home safe and sound. Even if he did get malaria 8 times while he was there.

I guess over 75 baptisms made up for that though.   

I can't believe in a little over 10 years I'll be sending my own son off. 

Oh man, don't think I can handle that so we'll not talk about it that right now.