Chrsitian's Homecoming

So...It's been over a month since Christian came home, but, I thought I'd share a little bit about that day :-).
He came home on the 25th of August, which, was a little less than a year after he deployed. Both Bruce and Lynda were originally going to come down to greet him, but, poor Lynda came down with an awful bug. She had to stay in Westminster to recover, but, Bruce was still able to go to the ceremony with me.

The ceremony was held in a gymnasium where they had a bounce houses and food set up. They had a video playing on repeat of the soldiers exiting the plane in Colorado Springs. It was fun trying to figure out which one was Christian, since, they all look alike to me when they are in the uniforms. We were finally able to pick him out by the way he was walking. We arrived at the gym about two hours before the soldiers did, meaning, a very impatient 1 year old. Abigail was not too thrilled with hanging out in her stroller for more than a few minutes, so, Bruce and I tried to keep her entertained with hand flags, food, and juice. Eventually, I had to just let her crawl around in order to prevent a meltdown. I decided to make her a patriotic tutu for Christian's homecoming, which was very hard for her to crawl around in. She ended up "crab walking" throughout the gym which provided many people with a laugh. All you could see when she was crawling across the floor was a little hiney framed by tulle.

When the soldiers finally arrived, they set off fog machines, played patriotic music, and had them all line up. For me, it was over the top corny, but, I guess it was really meaningful to others. We also listened to a few speeches...which was fun, haha. I'm sure most of the families there just wanted to get their soldier back and leave, but, I guess we can't always be impatient :-P. I sadly was not able to pick Christian out of the mass of 200+ uniformed soldiers, so, once they released them, he was the one who had to find us. Thankfully, he spotted us quickly since we were sitting on the first row of the bleachers. After he found us, we grabbed his bags and headed home. Bruce then took us to lunch as a sushi restaurant (yummy yummy!) and headed to Whole Foods (One of the first things that Christian wanted to do). After that, we dropped our goodies off at the apartment and went to On the Border for Dinner. And that was pretty much it :-).