Welcome Home!!!!

This post is long overdue, and most of you have already seen these pictures and heard our stories but I wanted to make sure I wrote it all down before I forget. Rob was deployed for six months...SIX MONTHS PEOPLE. I know what your thinking...because when I tell most people that he was deployed for six months the usual reply is " well atleast he's not in the army, they're gone for (fill in the blank)". I am well aware that there are other brave men and women who are deployed longer than my husband. While I am still so grateful for their sacrifices...I only know what I have been through and six months was hard. THAT being said you can only imagine what this day (the day he was coming home) was like emotionally and physically. I say physically because have you ever been so excited and anxious that you can't breath or do anything productive? That's the type of excited I'm talking about. I knew going in that we weren't going to be able to go to the flight line and see his plane come in like we did last year. I was semi-grateful since it was so cold that night and this year was had a baby in tow. We knew ahead of time that he was landing and had to go through customs here on base and we weren't sure how long that would take. So there we were packed in their squadron auditorium with tons of other anxious families for TWO hours. SO we finally got word that the guys going through customs got a bit anxious and were going to start walking one by one to the auditorium. So everyone bundled up and headed outside to wait and hopefully find Robbie. We were standing there watching families reunite one by one and it just fed our excitment! Finally one of our friends said he would go ahead of the crowd and find Rob and bring him back. Before we knew it Rob was walking right to us. As soon as we spotted him Savannah burst into tears and held on tight, and Porter was screaming "Daddy I missed you...Daddy I missed you!!!!" I can't describe what that moment feels like. The world just pauses for a bit. It is beyond surreal. I've gone through that twice and it will be burned into my memory forever. I will never be able to describe how grateful I am that he is home safe and sound.