Family

We are now back home in Okinawa. I am too exhausted to tell any stories or write any witty commentary to go along with the few pictures I did take, but here is what I do have.

As you know, we did make the flight from Hawaii to Jackson Mississippi. We landed in Jackson late Monday night, got checked into our hotel room and started making arrangements to get to North Mississippi. Thomas aunt Bobbie was kind enough to come pick us up the next day. Noone knew we were coming home, including Thomas (whom I emailed once we made it to Hawaii). I called Tessia, Thomas sister and she arranged a mini cookout at his Moms house that evening so all the family would be there. In the meantime we went on to my Moms house. It was much fun to surprise everyone. My Mom immediately started crying and was so happy to see us. She had been really missing us lately and wasn't expecting to see us until next summer. Later that evening we arrived at my Mother in law's house. The whole family was there to greet us, and only a few knew we were coming.
What a great late Mothers Day!

Memorial Day weekend my Grandpa had his camper at the river and several family members were up there, so the boys and I drove up to visit. These pictures are of Dayton eating a KoolAid popsicle. He wasn't too happy when it was all gone.


Dayton never did really warm up to anyone, as you can tell in most of the pictures.

My Mom, Jacky, and the boys.


Thomas Mother and the boys.


These are pictures of Thomas Sister, Tessias kids, Kaylee and Karmen and my boys. Notice Dayton was being bribed with a honey bun to get in the photo.


Braden has always been an animal lover. He had so much fun visiting all the family pets. This is Cousin Jennifer's Chameleon, named Izzy I believe. Jennifer also had a kitten, 2 dogs and chickens for him to play with. Grandmas both had dogs, and he even caught a turtle one day and a ladybug another day. He was determined to bring them both home as pets.

We ended up being home about 2 weeks and had a blast. The kids were able to spend time with all the Grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. We visited friends and old neighbors. Ate a little American food, which wasn't nearly as good as I remembered it being, and went shopping a time or two or three.....

For our trip home we were able to catch another military flight, this time a KC135 flying form Meridian, MS. Being a guard base, there was no terminal or anything like that. So, we just hung out in an office building until time to take off.
There was a little kitchenette among all the offices, with a built in Budweiser keg.....only in the AF.

Oh well, at least Dayton slept good on the plane....just kidding.


There are some pictures the kids took playing around with the camera, but you can see the type of seats we were in and the retro seatbelts.