Today, to be completely honest was the BEST day of the year so far! (And I do not see it being topped any time soon!) Yes, you are seeing this picture correctly...this is Ian and Uncle Nick!! My brother Nicholas just graduated from Army Sniper School and was flying back from El Paso (yuck!) to Hawaii (woot!) where he is stationed. There was a bunch of bad weather that could not have been timed any better and he got stuck at DFW airport overnight!! So he calls us up and said he'd rather hang out with us than go bar hopping with the guys (he must not spend a lot of time with us if he chose us over that! Haha!) We were actually on our way back from getting ice cream (it was one of THOSE days) and he calls Jeff and told us he was stuck at the airport and if we wanted to see him! We did everything BUT do an immediate illegal U-Turn in the middle of the road. I think we made it to the airport in less than 30 minutes after he called...in rush hour traffic! He hung out with us for a while. We ate steaks and Ian wore Nick out more than he already was! When we were on the way to the airport we told Ian we were going to see Uncle Nick and Ian would go "Ooooo!" and it was obvious he remembered him! That was really cool. As soon as he saw Nick, he got really excited! This picture is of Ian and Nick playing Legos in Ian's room. This was less than 5 minutes after we got back. Needless to say, Ian was just as excited as we were to see Nick! He stayed for a while and then Jeff took him back to the airport later that night so he could catch his flight EARLY the next morning. It was sooooo cool to see my brother, especially so unexpectedly! We had a great time talking and catching up. He told some great stories about sniper school. Just to brag a little, my brother is only a PFC (Private First Class) and was one of the few at sniper school. Not only that he was one of only 22 that passed and became a Army Sniper or as I like to call him...a Government Trained Assassin! How cool!