Elder Peterson Comes Home!

A year and week after going out on his mission, Elder Peterson had

to come home due to some serious medical issues that they couldn't figure

out while he was serving his mission.  So they thought it would be good for him to come home and figure out what was wrong.  My parents got the call on Wednesday evening (July 14th) that he would be arriving at the Phoenix airport the next afternoon at 2:30pm!  As soon as my Mom told me, I got busy!  There was NO way I was going to sit at home while my brother was coming home!  So I packed Kernan and I (Maci was already down there, she went home with my Mom after Disneyland) and we loaded the car and left by 7:30am Thursday morning!  We got to my parents house in time to eat and change, Kolby's flight was delayed by a couple of hours so we had plenty of time! Ü

Getting in the elevator to go up and wait for him...

Kernan was SO excited!  When I first told him where we were going as I was packing us up, he kept saying, "No Mom, Kolby is in Washington!"  but I explained it a few times, and once he got it, all he could talk about was going to get Kolby and how Kolby was going to get his belly! Ü

These 3 were pretty excited too! Ü

Looking for him to come walking up from his gate...

There he is!!!

You can see the look on his face here, it says "I'm in pain!"

In every package I sent to Kolby I included a box of chewy Gobstoppers.  We have only ever seen them in the UT gas stations!  They are one of our favorites!  So I brought one to give him when he got home, Kernan got to hand it to him.

I love Kolby's expression in this one!

And this one, in fact, I think this will be hung in Kernan's room!!

Waiting for his luggage...

Of course, per his request, we drove 2 cars to the airport!  Don't worry, he didn't drive it home!  He was to doped up on pain meds! lol!!

When we got home we were all curious as to how Cooper was going to react...  At first he wasn't sure who Kolby was....


But it didn't take long for him to realize it was Kolby and he couldn't stop jumping on him!  He was so happy to see him!

We went to Mayco's for dinner that night, it's one of Kolby's favorites!  It was so funny though because he didn't want to change his clothes... He said it would be to weird to go change and that the tie he was wearing was one of his favorites! haha!!  It didn't take long for him to get out of the habit of always wearing his suit though! Ü

It also didn't take long AT ALL for Kernan to get comfortable with him!!  I think he missed his buddy!!


And buddies they are!!  They were almost inseparable those two!  Here they are both playing on their iPod touches (well kernans ipod is mine not his, but you know what I meant!)

So Kolby has had 2 doctor's appointments and there still is no cause as to what is causing his back problems.  His back and neck hurt so bad to the point that he shakes and his hands can't grip things...  It's rather odd!!  We hope they figure it out eventually but he doesn't have another doctor's appt until mid September!  So it could take awhile!  In the mean time, it's nice to have him home!  The kids and I stayed there for almost 2 weeks!  Brian and Wyatt came down the last 4 days we were there to see him and hang out... We had a good time!  I just hope they can figure out whatever it is that is doing this to him!!  

LOVE YOU BROTHER!!!