Early Christmas Gift

Five days before Christmas, on December 20th, we got the best Christmas gift possible, Daddy came home from deployment!!!

Since Ely was part of the 3 aircraft carrier port swap, his boat pulled into Norfolk, VA, and then they had to take an airplane back to San Diego. So we spent Sunday morning waiting for his chartered flight to arrive at the NAS North Island air terminal.



Waiting for Daddy's airplane

Still waiting...

The plane was an hour late landing (but we weren't told this until 20 minutes before its actual arrival time).

We finally saw the plane land but then it disappeared while it was taxing...Lucas was beyond tired of waiting and was just full on crying for Daddy at this point!

We can see his plane again!!!

Noah was very excited that it was a double decker plane

The fence got in the way of the reunion photo of the boys attacking Daddy :)

So happy to be reunited!!!

Happy boy!

It has been a very long first year in San Diego with Ely only being home about 2 1/2 months total, so we are very excited to start 2016 together!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

~Love, the Fletcher Ohana

Holiday Wonderland

This past Saturday, the boys and I went to Holiday Wonderland at Petco Park, the stadium where the Padres play.

They had lots of Christmas lights and decorations, and a few kid friendly rides. Most importantly: snow!!! I seriously had to drag my two beach boys out of the snow to go eat dinner. At one point, they announced that Santa was going to be down on the field, and they still wouldn't leave the snow :-)

I'm sure the fact that the air temperature was in the 60s made playing in the "snow" a lot more fun than in the Midwest!

It was "snowing" soap bubbles :)

Riding the Ferris Wheel in the middle of the field

Ferris Wheel selfie!

Mommy and Lucas about to inner-tube sled down the big hill

Noah in his lane

Mid-sled! Lucas actually loved it and was very excited to go again :)

Reindeer!

Cautiously touching the cold stuff...

Noah had a great time just running all around in the snow area

Lucas's face because he didn't want to put his hands in the cold to stand up!

Snow angel or Ninja Turtle roadkill???

The only ride that wasn't included with our admission price was the train...but of course we had to ride it anyways because: TRAIN!

View of Petco Park while on the train

Lucas is so funny with characters, he always wants to run right up and hug them, but then he runs away and doesn't stay for a picture!

Candy Cane Lane