Your posts today have made me feel just great cause I'm so happy for your family. It also brought back memories of when my son came home on leave. One of the first times he came home from Germany after we hadn't seen him for a year, we went to get him at the airport and everyone waited at our house for us. We had banners across the garage saying "welcome home" and the whole bit and he was a bit embarassed when we came in the driveway but when he saw everyone inside he forgot to be embarassed.
He told me years later how hard it was for him to go back after those leaves.
Well, we may have embarrassed Ev a little bit at the airport too, with all our hugs and tears and Katie's balloons and flowers and oh yeah, the bag of fresh cheese curds we presented him with.;^)
But I know he appreciated it.