Christmas Tree Lighting 2015

We zipped over to the Christmas Tree Lighting tonight so Ed could check on his Marines doing Toys For Tots and the Marines doing the Color Guard for The National Anthem. Ty and I went with him. All went fine. A fire fighter sang the national anthem. The flag was still at half mast from the terrorist attack in San Bernadino a few days ago. It's sad and scary to think that every Christmas event is now a target for terrorists....I couldn't help but look at everyone different now and worry for our Marines in uniform who are obvious targets now....

Rainbow In The Desert

We don't get many rainbows out here in the desert so when they do appear it is a beautiful site!!!

Drive In Fun

We decided to go see Hotel Transylvania tonight. Taylor came with us. I miss the longer days of summer but it's nice that the movies can start earlier now! 

Just love these people!!!

Taylor discovered how awesome bungee chairs are!!! She loved bouncing in it!

It was just a bit windy....i was freezing by second movie even with my nice warm blanket! Have to remember to bring hoodie from now on so i can have my neck and ears covered until it warms up again.... Pixel was the second movie. We had already seen it but Taylor hadn't so we stayed. It was just as funny second time around!  The stars were beautiful tonight!!! Another fun Saturday night out here in the desert!

Dinner At The Train Tracks

We decided to grab a couple of pizzas and take to the drive in with us.  I left at the same time i've left before to go to the drive in so we wouldn't be too far back in the line. But for some reason tonight there was no line, just us! Ed wanted to have it Marine style and sit out next to the jeep with the pizzas on the hood and just eat grunt style.....we ended up deciding to just drive down the road to the tracks at the Harvey House. Perfect evening to eat pizza along the railroad tracks! Oh, and Ty brought Taylor. Thank goodness she already knows how wacky and impromtu we are! 

The kids entertained me with some picture taking!

Ty had just told Taylor to look inside. As she pressed her face against the glass he grabbed her and yelled. He kinda scared her and she smacked him. We all laughed....

Just hanging out at the tracks watching the trains go by....a few went by and each time i got stuck on the letter Q in the alphabet game i play everytime trains go by.

Taylor smiled, Ty said it was impossible to smile while eating pizza! He had to concentrate!

Just a bit windy but a super fun pizza dinner at the railroad tracks!

Rodeo Time, Again

It's already rodeo time again! I've noticed everything is just on repeat here....same thing year after year....Last year we FROZE at the rodeo this year we sweated non stop! But still a fun Friday and Saturday evening.

Friday night we had dinner at Peggy Sues before heading to the rodeo. Ty, Ryan, and Taylor are at an away game so we went with Daniel and Jennifer.

There was a beautiful sunset as we headed over to the stables!

The horses were as gorgeous as ever and did a great job!

It was a full moon and Ty was happy to have Taylor there!

Fall Fun On Base

It's that time of year again! Fall Festival on base. I can't believe how fast this year is going! I swear we just did this but it really was a year ago!!! The boys were happy about the yummy dinner tonight. They had just finished football practice and were starving!!! 

Than it was off for trike races, rock walls, lazer maze, hamster balls, trains, and even some jail time!

Ty was finally captured! And threatened with a hair cut!!!!

I guess they never took the name tags off the chairs from The Change of Command!

It was another fun night on MCLB Barstow! 

Time For Shark Week Donuts!

I went to get donuts for Shark Week....the lady at Dunkin Donuts looked at me like I was off my rocker asking about the shark donuts. She continued to make me feel like a lost idiot in the desert as she went on and on about how am the only one watching shark week...blah, blah, blah....and than I guess she realized maybe she should offer to let me order some as I was walking away. Sooooo, I ordered donuts for the next morning to pick up. They were fun.....and a reminder we live in Barstow!

 

Doggie Park

Woke up this morning to MUCH cooler weather here in the desert! It was in the 60's!!! Opened all the windows and Ryan and I took the dogs for a walk and a stop at the doggie park. I think they liked having their leashes clipped off and being able to run freely!!! Although Leah acted like she was dying of heat stroke!