I had this countdown on my phone that allowed me to track how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds he was going to land in phoenix and it has been pretty exciting as the time just gets smaller and smaller! When the timer finally got to the last day I was so happy :) I could not hold in my excitement at all. My mom made a beautiful banner to hang on the garage for when he came home and I was in charge of the posters. Thankfully my best friend Emily came over and helped out with the posters because I was able to rant to her about all of my excitement.
This is the welcome home banner Mom made for Jaden. I thought this was pretty clever!
The day he came home was so weird for some reason. I remember that that day just flew by so fast. Every time I looked at the clock, time whizzed by. His plane didn't land until 5 pm and so me, Tessa, Mom, and Dad kept ourselves busy with work, babysitting, chores, and going to the temple with friends. For some reason, while I was babysitting, I became way nervous! I could not understand why I was so nervous though. My mom told me that she was nervous too. I guess I just wanted me and Jaden to have a good fresh start. We both argued in the past so I guess I was nervous that we would fight again, haha :)So far, we have been good friends.
Besides the nervousness, it finally came time to go to the airport. All of the welcoming crew loaded the car and headed out towards the airport. However, we got there super early so we had to wait for a long time for him to get off the plane. During that time of waiting, we took a few pictures!
This is us, dad was taking the picture, waiting impatiently for Jaden. Look at the signs I made :)
When his plane FINALLY landed me and Tessa tried guessing how many people it would take to get off before he actually appeared. We said something along the lines of, " I bet that he will step off the plane in the next 16 people." We had to keep betting different numbers because we were both wrong the whole time. Why did he have to sit at the back of the plane!?
Then, he finally appeared! And we screamed and cried and hugged him and caught him up on a few things. He was even able to meet sweet baby Jocelyn. He had never seen her before so that was cool.
Here is him when he got off. He was way tired and you could see Jocelyn wasn't too thrilled either.
That night, we went to dinner at Cafe Rio. Jaden said that he didn't have Mexican Food at all there and he was craving it so that's where we went for dinner. Yummy! Later, we went to go set him apart and he gave his testimony in Romanian! So COOL! and after that we went home :)
He was able to give us gifts and he gave me this BEAUTIFUL painted egg shell. I don't have picture of it but it is white and blue and just beautiful. I have always wanted one so YAY! Thank you Jay :) After that, Jon and Tessa and the baby headed home while I watched Frozen with Jaden. We had to stop the movie halfway though because he was so tired. Overall, it was a really great day and I know that seeing my family after a year and a half will be an amazing experience as well. :) This was great missionary preparation for when I am off and away Serving the Lord!
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