Nimitz Homecoming!!

My little brother, Danny is in the Navy and has been out on deployment since July 2009. He is stationed in San Deigo on the USS Nimitz. This March they came home!! I was very excited! I have been counting down since January... since the family decided we would make the trip to San Deigo and watch his ship come in!

This is a picture of the HUGE bridge we had to cross to get to Coronado where the Naval base is. It was such a busy bridge that morning of the homecoming.



Here a couple of us are waiting for the ship to dock. We made signs and had flags and they even gave us pom poms :).

Here is a picture of a part of the ship...it was so huge I couldn't fit it in my camera. The men and women on the ship stood on the top of the waving and saluting. There were so many- about 5,000 people on it. They look so tiny in the picture...funny thing is we were near the front of the crowd. As we were waiting I felt so much emotion and joy that he was home. I kept getting tears in my eyes especially seeing all the families around us greeting their sailor. It was difficult to wait for Danny to finally walk off the ship...he was almost the last.

Here is a picture of Becky (my sis), Danny, and me.

Here is a picture of three of my brothers...Scott, Danny, and David.
Scott is in the Air Force and Danny and David are in the Navy.

Here are the bunch of us...my Dad is taking the picture.

Danny gave us a tour of the ship.... Here are Joel and me on top of the deck of the ship.

Here is Becky by the gun...she was loving it!

Here is Joel and David...just being their normal selves =) they get along great! I think they were even drooling...

Here is the middle of the ship.

This is a set up they had so we could get a picture by the wheel.

Joel in Danny's bed...pretty tight quarters.

We also went to the ocean and just spent time together...I had a great time! Here is a picture of the La Jolla Beach. It was beautiful! Also the weather was perfect...then we came home to snow in Utah.