I had the immense pleasure of taking homecoming pictures yesterday for an AMAZING family! The youngest son of Tiffany and Mike, Wyatt, is my daughter's ''boyfriend'', or so I hear her say a dozen times a day. ;)
This family is amazing! Mike has been in the Marine Corps for twenty two years! Tiffany mentioned at the homecoming how he joined the Corps in 1989... that was the year my baby brother was born and I was four at that time. What an amazing individual to devote so much of his life to serving others! Tiffany is as amazing as Mike is. She is a devote wife and mother, a realtor, a Scentsy rep (shameless plug for Tiff, I know!) and an amazing friend who would do anything for anyone! I am truly blessed to have known this family!
This homecoming was an emotional one. I got to the hanger of MALS-29 a little earlier than I needed to, but I enjoyed watching the families walk around, hang banners and pace at the door to the hanger waiting on those white buses. I talked with Tiffany and listened as she told me how difficult this deployment was, but how she was beyond grateful that this was their last deployment. I can't imagine that feeling and I'm sooo ready for that day!
The buses pulled up and the intense and overwhelming feeling was almost too much for me to bear. The buses pulled up and the Marines piled in to formation on the opposite side of the bus from us, with the buses between us. A few people were yelling, "MOVE THAT BUS!". It was amazing. After those buses pulled off and the Marine's were dismissed from formation, the race was on! We lept over people, zig-zagged through people and Tiffany and the boys ran straight to Mike. It was beautiful! Their oldest child, Cameron, was bawling his sweet baby eyes out! That had me going from there! They got a beautiful reunion and I am, again, beyond blessed to have been a part of it!
Love you "B" family!! Welcome home Mike and thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your amazing 22 years in the Marine Corps! Tiffany, you are a beyond amazing woman and together y'all have raised two amazing children!!!
-Ash
