We just celebrated an incredible couple of days with Scott in Pensacola, Florida, as he completed his Naval Flight Officer Winging Designation Ceremony at the Naval Air Station Pensacola Sherman Field. We are so proud of Scott. It was a very proud day for the entire Thornbury Family and extented family. We were able to tour and see the planes he has been training with for the past year and a half, meet his commanding officers and the young flight officers Scott has had the privelege to train with for the past two years of training and the highlight to Wing Scott at his Designation Ceremony. He is a graduate of VT-4 (Training Squadron FOUR) and selected to Fly EA-6B Prowlers. He received his orders to attend SERE School for the next two weeks in San Diego, CA, (pray for him as this is hard core navy survival training starting Sept 8) then off to Seattle in October to begin his EA-6B Prowler training. We are so proud of you Scott! We love you! We were able to spend time and celebrate with Scott at beach and have a mini vacation too. The picture above was taken after the winging ceremony with Scott, Katie, Mike and myself. Then as our trip came to an end a little God send of hope happened on the return home at the Greater Cincinnati Airport this evening. We ran into a couple and the grandparents of a darling little boy newly adopted from China on the shuttle bus to the car park. This couple had literally just brought home their new son from China having spent the past 2 weeks in country and the little boy seemed so happy and content with his new forever family. They were coming home from their China adoption journey with their son. What a nice little blessing to see the joy this couple had and knowing it will be our journey to a joyous homecoming some day soon. I told Mike "see it does really happen" as I got all emotional and choked up just by running into this couple. But more importantly we just had such a special time on our journey with our son. God sure works in miraculous ways to bless us and I know Jailyn will be just as proud of her new big brother when she gets here as we are of Scott for all his hard work and for serving this great country for you and me! Way to go Scotters! AKA Lieutenant Junior Grade Scott M. Thornbury United States Navy! Woohoo!
