Here's the surprise

For the last 3 weeks or so I hoped that Chris would be home for Christmas. In typical military fashion they kept changing the dates. He was suppose to originally be home for Thanksgiving and that didn't work too well. I didn't want to jinx it so NO ONE knew. I didn't tell any friends, family, co-workers, NO ONE.

Wednesday morning Nate and I were off and we went to the base around 8:15am. Nate didn't know why we were going. He thought we were going to get to taxi in a B-52. I didn't tell him that he just made that assumption. Two planes were landing with people from the island. The 1st plane landed around 8:32am (so says Chris). We were bussed out to the flightline and waiting for the plane to come to a complete stop. We waited and waited and waited. I didn't know at the time but there were 10 people aboard that plane. Chris was in the back and was one of the last ones off. Nate and I were both talking to people and not paying attention when Chris snuck up on us and surprised Nate.

Nathan was so shocked. His face said it all. It took him a minute to register that his Dad was there in person. What a great Christmas present. Unfortunately you can't top that.

Here we are making our 1st Gingerbread house. Never again. What a nightmare. It caved in within 30 minutes of completition.