Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Welcome Home Jon!

My brother Jon had come home from another year of deployment in Iraq a few weeks ago, so we went down to my parents for a nice "Welcome Home" picnic and to spend some time with Uncle Jon! 

On the way down we saw this hot air balloon and the girls thought that was pretty cool.

An updated Mrnak family picture

Grandma & Grandpa and all their grandkids

The original 5 Mrnaks

The boys

Us 3.. lol

Aiden got to spend some time with his friend Jeremiah, they are 7 days apart.  It was nice to have some chat time too with his Mommy, Felicia.

Hailey and Auntie Mel reading books

Taylor thinks Jeremiah is so cute! and he is.. so so smiley and happy :)

These are all the kids that were at the picnic.. Dayne, Kaidynn, Brynn, Taylor, Chad, Jeremiah, Megan, Madi, Aiden, Hailey, Bryce, and Tyler

The little girl cousins. My cousin Lisa's girls, Kaidynn and Brynn, Tim & Mel's girls, Megan and Madi, and our girls, Hailey & Taylor

The girls had fun beating up on Uncle Jon Sunday afternoon


He set Hailey on the table and she thought that was a perfect opportunity for some sweets :)


The girls played in the kiddy pool before we left to cool down

and Aiden had some more Grandma time in the shade

take a break from swimming for a wagon ride

It was so nice to spend some quality time with family and we are all so relieved to have Jon out of the war! Only a handful of months left for him in the Army thank goodness.. world, don't do anything stupid in the meantime please! 

3 comments:

Jim and Donna said...

the weekend was busy and full of fun times, thanks for all the help with planning and food and clean up. Yes we are waiting for the day Jon gets his walking papers...lol

Melissa said...

sure was fun to see you guys again!

marlene said...

Welcome Home JON.... hope all is peaceful so you can stay stateside. Looks like a fun family time....neat pics....yours, Donnas and Mels.....

Hugs to all