As Jared Padalecki put it, Take us home.

And, not surprisingly, things aregetting sentimental.

Padalecki posted on Instagram on Tuesday about shaving his final hiatus beard and returning to Sam Winchester.

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Jared Padalecki/Instagram

Farewell final holiday beard, Padalecki wrote alongside two pictures of himself one with a beard and one without.

In other words, theyre more than halfway through the last season.

(Thankfully fans still have 12 episodes left to watch.)

Supernaturalreturns to The CW on Jan. 16 for the last half of its final season.