ELI IS HOME!!!!

The day before school started, we got up early and drove over to Boise to meet Eli at the airport when he flew in from his mission to Chile.

This is just PART of the group that was there to meet him when he came through the doors- there were many children further off to the right:

I figured it up and there were sixty of us there to greet him just as he came through the doors:

My mom said, "Isn't it amazing?  There were just the 11 of us when Nathan (my oldest brother) got home from his mission!"

Eli had A LOT of hugs to give out when he came through the doors.  My parents just stood back and watched until they finally got their turn - I know it seems like they ought to get first dibs:

It was so tender - there is just something about missionaries coming home.

Pace and Eli- Pace was born just before he left, and turned two just before he got home!

After all the hugging and greeting was accomplished, we took our party to a restaurant and continued it!:)

All the teenagers gathered around Eli:

Gracie, Maddie and Sadie, or "Mad, Sad, and Gray" as Maddie refers to them:

It is so great to have Eli home again!  And the best part is that he will be going to college here and so we will get to see him in two more weeks!