Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Surprise-y Sam the Solider

Sam came home for surprise leave a few weeks ago. When I say that everyone asks if it was a surprise to him or us? It was a HUGE and wonderful surprise for us. Not wanting to disappoint people if he had to change plans at the last minute Sam called his wife from Denver to ask her to come pick him up at the airport!
He continued this sneaky streak by appearing unannounced at my parents house. They were driving home from the store and mom noticed "some man"in the yard- turned out to be Sam.
He ended up surprising me as well, I called home and was talking to Dad one evening, I think it was a Wednesday if that helps you picture it better, and I could hear Paige running around in the background. Mid-sentence my Dad says hang out a second- what does this mean? Well to me it quite clearly meant that I was going to talk to Paige, as I waited to hear her voice, Sam started talking- well, had I been sitting I would have fallen out of my chair.
The simple conclusion that he was home on leave didn't even occur to me. I was completely confused trying to figure what was going on- was the war over (probably would have heard that on the radio) was his unit done, was this some sort of very expensive 3 way call from the middle east? No, Sam was home to visit for two weeks, YAY! These pictures are from when we all went down to the Island house and hung out.

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