Our Family is Complete (at least this week).

We picked Kyle up from the airport yesterday. What a sight for sore eyes. There he was standing on the curb at the airport waiting for us to arrive. We timed it pretty perfectly. We don't believe in parking. Just a quick pull over to the curb and hop on in. We did take just a minute for hugs and kisses. I did prep Kyle with the information that Camryn wanted to be the first to get hugs and kisses. She was so happy! Kyle's plane got in early so we decided to run to the mall for some shopping therapy. Not Kyle's favorite activity but Melena was really happy. She and Ethan needed new shoes for church. Melena went happily about her task of trying on shoes while we found a sales clerk to measure Ethan's feet. He said his church shoes were feeling a little tight. They are size 8.5 so I thought his feet must be getting a little bigger. We were dumbfounded when she had Ethan stand on the shoe measuring thingy(not sure of its scientific classification). His feet measured a whopping size 11. Bear in mind that Ethan is only 11 years old. I mean what is in store for us? How big is he going to get? Can we really afford to feed and clothe him? I had no idea that he had grown so much. No wonder he said his shoes felt tight. We found a pair that he was happy with and satisfied Melena's shoe desires also. We then headed over to Don Pablo's for a family Valentine's Homecoming dinner celebration. The topic of conversation settled around Ethan's shoe size and what is Montana like. Were so happy to have Kyle (for me) and daddy (for Melena, Ethan and Camryn) home again.

Returning From Montana

Kyle is flying in from Montana tomorrow. He will be here all next week. We have so much to do to get everything ready to move the rest of us to Colstrip. His new job is relocating us to Montana but they will only pay to ship 15,000 pounds. They sent in a moving company to do an estimate of how much stuff we have to move and we were way over the estimated limit. I refuse to get rid of everything so we have rented a relo-cube or pod to ship some of are excess stuff (books, paper craft stuff, more paper, rubber stamps or as Kyle says "Junk that makes me happy"). I have been packing boxes all week. I'm sick of packing. Thanks to Debbie Clayton for running over to Walmart after midnight to get me empty boxes. They sure fill up fast. We have lots of painting to do to get the house ready to put on the market. Anyone need a new house?

The kids are so happy that daddy is coming home. Camryn called "First" to be the one to give daddy kisses and hugs when we pick him up at the airport. This will be the best Valentine gift ever for everyone in our family. We are so excited to have him home again (even if it is only a week).