every time i see this photo it makes me smile...i mean why wouldn't it??? it has three of the most important people to me. it also tells a story of a time in our life. a time that was happy and hard all at the same time. a time when we all had to pull together to help each other out day to day because life as we knew it was changed. he had been called to Iraq for 15 months and this was the day 7 months after he had left he came back to visit. boy were the kids excited. we picked him up at the airport after not seeing him for 7 months. and all of us could not stop hanging on him. this was at a Mexican restaurant in Denver after we reunited. and the kids could not sit close enough to him throughout the whole meal. i was on the other side across the table completely being ignored by the kids and it felt good........ the hard part is we only had two weeks before we had to send him again to the call of duty for another 7 to 8 months and it sucked. (no other way to put it) i thought several times about kidnapping him or accidentally braking his leg or some part of this body so he wouldn't have to return but as the finally days neared to his leave ending i realized this is what it is and how it has to be so again we said our goodbyes and prayed that the next months would fly by. and looking back they did, but at the time not so much. so looking back at this picture it makes me happy and reminds me how hard it is for me and so many others who are still there or coming and going. it affects us all.
kids in front of dad's flight that just pulled in....
and when we sent him back all that was left to do is move on with him thousands of miles away, so we did....we worked, went to school, clean, slept, ate, cried, joked, laughed, cried some more and we definitely supported.
kids at parade to support their father while overseas......
wow! see what you can get out of a photo....lots of love, emotions, memories, joy, hardship, lost time that you can't get back.......
i'm going to take more pictures!!!
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