Home Sweet Home!

First, a Happy Valentines Day to you all!  I'm thankful for the love from my Heavenly Father & the gracious ways He has shown earthly love to me through His goodness, family & friends.

To close out our Europe 2014 blog, we woke up at 5:30am London time Saturday morning (12:30am Memphis time) in order to be picked up for a ride to London Heathrow airport. After the long process of getting luggage checked & security checkpoints for our international flight, we grabbed a bite & exchanged pounds & Euros to US dollars.  I was very use to the Euros, & was trying to figure out the coin system of British pounds & pence when it was time to go back to our currency.  We boarded our flight for the 9 hour flight to Chicago. Our flight to the states was a longer, more miserable, may I say, flight than our overseas flight to Europe. It was an older aircraft, which makes a huge difference, & it was day time flying, so it was hard to rest, and uncomfortable.  But, that was okay.  We knew the time would go by & it did, & we're home now :).

You may remember from yesterday's London post a photo of our tour guide at Tower of London.  As we walked through the airport, we saw her picture saying Goodbye!  

Our ride from London to Chicago

The magazine had a feature article entitled "Three Perfect Days Bogota".

View of Greenland

Our view when we arrived in Chicago

After our layover, we got on a little plane from Chicago to Memphis

It was still snowing & so this is a picture from sitting on the plane watching it being de-iced.

Here we come at the Memphis terminal!

My parents, sister, & brother-in-law greeted us.  We were feeling tired & a little rough at this point, but glad to be back in Memphis!

Of course, our first stop was Chick-Fil-A before we came home!  It was delicious  We also spotted our car we sold the day before we left in the parking lot.  It was fun to see our friends inside who had purchased our car.

Some of Isabella's Jr. High friends surprised her at our house with signs.  It was a fun homecoming for her!

The next morning, Isabella made some British tea served on our London tray with her new Kate & William mug.

After being away from home for 6 weeks & in Europe for 5 weeks, it is good to be home.  We do miss our friends we spent the month with, but are excited about the next chapter for everyone.  We are encouraged & sincerely appreciate your prayers for us.  Thank you for reading & looking at hundreds of pictures along the way!