Ben's Homecoming

The next exciting thing that took place in our life was the return of our son Benjamin from serving in Iraq! It seemed like it took forever to get him home. They first sent him to Texas, and then he was in the last group to arrive. The first group arrived on Memorial Day, but the last group arrived several days later at 11:00 P.M! What a happy day!

It did look stunning at night with the flags lining up in front of the plane. They also had fire trucks come and spray arches of water in front of the plane to welcome home the troops. We had to stay behind a line so it was hard to pick out our soldier out of what seemed to be hundreds of them! We finally found him though! What a wonderful reunion. We were so thankful to our Heavenly Father for watching over him and keeping him safe this past year.

Sara's Graduation

Well Summer began with the graduation from high school of our youngest child, Sara. I think that means that we are officially old. In some ways I will miss not having a child in public school, but in many ways I will not. (No more school fees!) What I do miss is not having children young enough to be in school. Here she is: