Kelli Kirwan and i have been friends since the early Spring of 1998. We met while our husbands were stationed on Camp Pendleton and we both lived in Base Housing and were in the same ward for church. Kelli was the nursery leader and Vicki was in nursery along with Kelli's daughter Rebekah who was the same age as Vicki. Those two became quick friends and probably the reason why were never stationed at the same duty station again. We used to joke about those toddlers stealing a helicopter if they were ever on the same base as teenagers! We have had a LOT of fun and crazy times together. Seen lots of sadness together to with the many memorial services we attended for our Marines killed in training accidents. We have gone in different directions over the last 16 years but only because of our husbands duty stations. We would totally CHOOSE to live next door to each other if the Marine Corps would ever make that happen! Anyways.....from 1998-2014 we have PCS'd around the Marine Corps duty stations and the Kirwans hit an Army Post along the way. We finally ended up in the same state in 2009! Now Kelli is doing her last official PCS move as her husband, Charles, is now in the ranks of the Retired Marines. I went and hung out with her/helped her on her last day of packing out while the movers loaded the truck one last time from a military duty station. It just doesn't seem possible that we are at this point in our lives! When i met her my husband was just barely a Corporal....it has been a fun and crazy along with some tears 16 years of Marine Wife friendship. She is off to Texas in the morning, that is home for her. I won't be surprised if we end up close together again when my Marine joins the retired ranks. Texas is a state we are looking at if the Democrats don't find a way to plant toooooo many blue voters there! I see it happening with all their constant legislation is gaining the Mexican vote, now they just have to figure out a way to get those numbers there to out vote the Texas people. When that happens, which i am afraid it might, The Dude In Cammies and i will have to scratch off another retirement wish location off our list. The blue seems pretty hellbent on taking all the warm locations of our country!!! Maybe i will be talking Kelli into joining me in Wyoming, Oklahoma, or the Dakotas! I sure hope not! I hate the cold!!!
This is Luke. He is Jasper Jr. The only child of Jasper that we know location of. We know some of his pups were given to Wounded Warrior, but Luke is the only one we have kept in contact with. He is JUST like his Daddy. We always joke and do the Darth Vader voice around Luke of "Luke, I am your father". It never gets old. gonna miss this cute, wild, fat, spaz of a dog!!! He wouldn't look up because he had a ball in his mouth and he thought i was going to take it!!!
