Saturday April 14,
2012
This morning Lincoln went to the airport to pick up my
brother, Chris, who flew in from Seattle for the weekend. I was excited
to see him. Lincoln called to say they were about 20 minutes from home. After
30 minutes, I wondered what was going on. Finally, fifteen minutes later they came into
the house. I ran upstairs to ask they what took so long. At first glance, I saw
my brother smiling at me and then on second glance I SAW my brother and
realized that he had shaved his head for me. I hugged him with all my might and
cried like a baby at such a sweet gesture. He also cried as we hugged each
other. I have THE best brother in the world. He and Lincoln had stopped on the
way home from the airport for the “special haircut.” He had emailed our family that he 'I arrived safely in Lindon, but my hair got lost at baggage claim!" I took off my wig and I had
Lincoln take pictures of the two of us. We emailed the photos to our parents and
Chris’ wife. In case they couldn’t tell who was who, I pointed out that I was
the one wearing the earrings. Haha
Chris also surprised me by telling me that
his family had changed their summer European Trip by one extra day so that
their family can fly out for about 40 hours to be here to share in Tyler &
Andrea’s wedding with us. He made me cry again as I realize what a sacrifice of
time and finances that will be for his family, but we will all be together and
I am so grateful for that!
He also brought 2 big boxes with him. One has about 1000
slides of photos from the Kimmell Family past and another box full of
photographs. We are going to spend part of this weekend, scanning the photographs
and trying to reproduce the slides so
that our entire family can have access to all these wonderful memories. I am so grateful for family and their undeniable blessing in my life!
My brother Chris & Me
(I'm the one with earrings!)
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