Welcome Home Sgt. Uncle Grant!

We are so thrilled that Grant is back on American soil after two consecutive tours in Afghanistan. He still has plenty of work to do, but we hope soon he will get a much-deserved break and we will be able to see him. Ellis still remembers her "uncle" sign and practices it whenever we show her pictures or tell her about him. We are so proud of Greg's not-so-little-anymore brother!

Ellis and her friend Beatrice threw a parade in the living room to celebrate Sgt. Uncle Grant's homecoming.

All right, so maybe they didn't know exactly what they were celebrating. But E & B always have a great time together and we are so glad that Ellis has such a sweet little girl as her first friend. We hope they are BFF! (That's "best friends forever," for any of you who didn't go to elementary school in the 80s.)

The girls were discussing the effects of post-war industrial design on modern architecture and I interrupted to take their picture. Thus the looks of slight annoyance.