PGD 12 Days of Christmas … Day #7 & Coming Home For Christmas

Sorry I missed posting about yesterday’s holiday freebies at PGD folks, I hope you still remembered to stop on over there. I had an early morning dental appoint I had to get to – bleh. :) Today I am here to remind you, though, so hop on over for your goodies! :D

PGD Day #7 – Get your goodies!!

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Coming Home for Christmas …

Our son Justin is on his way home at this very moment from his submarine base in Connecticut!! He texted me at 5am that he was boarding his 2nd plane. One more plane after that and he will be in Spokane where we will be waiting for him!!! woohoo!! :D Hard to believe we last saw him at his boot camp graduation in May – over 7 months ago! Got some *serious* hugging to do today! :D

God bless y’all!

*~~**~~Cari~~**~~* 

As Promised ... More Sailor Pics! :)

Since arriving back home from our trip to Great Lakes, I'm afraid I have been hit with a really lousy flu bug (hrrmmm... could it be the swine bug found me?? Probably not... but I've been miserable nonetheless!), so I have not gotten as much done with our trip photos as I'd like. That, and I have had a lot of photos to go through as I took well over 800 pics on the trip! (I know my brothers are laughing loudly at me right now, but for the average photographer/scrapbooker, that's not such an overly large number of photos for a weeklong trip! :P) So I am busy sorting through the pics, weeding out the keepers from the tossers.  I have so many great ones I want to share, and plenty I want to scrap. Here are a few more favs to show you...

...love those uniforms! ...

... more from grad day ...

 

... our hotel offered a warm welcome for our sailors ...

... we saw a few movies over the weekend, including 3D! ...

... and we paid a fun visit to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago!

Our Seaman!

We had the awesome privilege of seeing our youngest son, Justin, graduate Navy boot camp today. WOOT! Justin was Guide-on for his division, & was carrying the division flag at the ceremony. He, of course, looked handsome in his dress whites. He is looking really good, healthy, happy, strong. We got to meet two of his chiefs who each thanked us for sending them a young man who didn’t require much work at all, described Justin as a real asset, and one chief told us Justin was their absolute best “stick” (i.e., carrying, displaying, & maneuvering his flag while marching & such). He definitely performed with military precision and attention today! :)

 

 

Great Lakes Bound…

Well, here we are in Illinois! Our son, Justin, graduates Navy boot camp tomorrow – woohoo!! We got in last night – had a delay on our layover of about 2 hours in Minneapolis, but at least the ride into Chicago wasn’t as bumpy as we were expecting. (just a couple whoop-dee-doos!)

The first leg of our flight I had a wonderful seatmate, Kathy (Cathy? sp?), who, as it turned out, has a husband from the same small town my dad’s family is from – she even knew my cousin, Clint! :) Kathy was fun to visit with and swap stories of our families with, and she was very generous in letting me lean across her for some nice shots out the window!

Here are a couple pics from the flight to share with you before we head out to find some lunch!