She's Home!

We've had an exciting couple of weeks!

I'll break up the posts so they aren't forever long.

We headed to my parent's house again on the 11th so we could be in town for

my Grandma's cousin to go to the temple for the first time.

It was really neat to be there with him!

Then on Monday, the 14th, my youngest sister returned home from her mission!

It was a busy busy day!

We worked on projects and things around the house in the morning,

her flight was due in at 4:52 PM,

the airport is an hour away and we had a few errands we needed to run,

so we headed up around 3.

An hour or so before we left we got a phone call from our missionary telling us that her flight was delayed due to a freak rain storm. She had about 30 minutes between her connecting flights, so we headed to the airport hoping for the best.

I installed an app on my phone that tracked her flights,

phones these days are pretty amazing!

I kept watching, according to the app, 

it said she would have about 10 minutes to run to her connecting flight.

So we are running our errands at Deseret Book,

the app says she landed,

my uncle who happened to be at the airport sends us a text and tells us she's running to her next flight.

We have high hopes that she'll make it.

We finish up with our purchases,

my dad's phone rings, but he accidentally ignored the call,

walk out of the store,

when my mom's phone rings.

On the phone is one sad sister missionary,

she missed her flight by THREE minutes!

And do you know what the ticket lady said to her, "Oh, what's another 5 hours?"

My poor sister says, "Actually, it's a really long time!"

As most things do, it actually worked out really well.

My brothers are living with my grandparents for the summer and they live in the city she was in,

so my uncle took her to my grandparent's house and a lot of my mom's side of the family was able to see her.

Sadly, one of my brothers had gotten called out on a fire an hour before my sister landed, so he wasn't able to see her, but my youngest brother was.

My sister's original request for after she got home was to go to dinner at Costa Vida,

so we went there in her honor.

Now her flight was due to arrive at 10 PM.

So we went to a movie, How to Train Your Dragon 2, for not seeing the first one, it was pretty cute.

We also walked around Costco for a while and tried out all of their couches.. lol. 

Then around 9 or so we headed to the airport.

As we were driving up we noticed some lightning near the airport and started to worry that her plane would get rerouted, thankfully it was far enough away that it didn't affect her plane.

Here are all the cousins and my grandparents that were at the airport.

Please check out the little kids' faces, they are hilarious!

 To keep the kids entertained for a while, one of my cousins told the little ones stories and let them share their stories too, it was pretty funny.

 They also played Dead Lions... lol!

It's a great game if you've never played it,

everyone lays down and is very quiet and whoever talks or gets up first loses.

 When it started to get really close to when her flight was supposed to land the kids started looking out the windows to try and see the plane.

 We all took a turn looking

 And then we saw it!

 It's here!

 Then we all ran downstairs to get into position.

Here we are patiently waiting for her to walk in.

My sister and I made the signs, but the kids helped us hold them.

Also, the next two pictures are of the same thing because the kiddos' faces crack me up!

  And then she made it inside! We all cheered and she ran straight for her momma!

 One proud Momma

 And then to her Daddy! One proud Daddy!

 Then she made her way around to everyone.

I think this picture was either before or after my sweet husband and sister gave each other their customary fist bump. Also, it shows the cute sign that I made and held. Lol!

 We didn't stick around too long because it was late and my sweet husband and brother-in-law had to wake up super early the next day to drive 5 hours home and go to work! 

But it is sure great to have her home!

More of the week fun we had during the week to come!