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Jon is home!

Joshua and I arrived down on base at 4:40 and the buses pulled in about 2 hours later. The families were able to comfortably wait in a large hanger where hamburgers, hot dogs, cookies, chips and other goodies were provided. Joshua and I read for about half an hour. The luggage truck arrived about an hour before the Marines did so Joshua and I were able to search through the hundreds of bags and we actually found Jon's two bags. They were too heavy to take to the car but a Marine helped us move them away from the hundreds of other bags. That saved us a lot of time when Jon did arrive since it was a mad house with all the Marines looking for their bags at once.

We headed to Claim Jumper for dinner -- a family tradition (we've gone there after Jon's return from both deployments). Joshua got his wish of being able to wrestle with Jon as soon as we got home. Now he is getting to have his dad read his bed-time story and put him to bed. He is one happy boy.

Jon and I are pretty happy ourselves. Thanks for your prayers.

Sheryl