Address Book In Shambles

My address book is in shambles, like literally completely falling apart! It was a really cool address book at one time. I got it from Thailand and it had this awesome elephant on the front of it. But, Tank chewed on it, Biscuit chewed on it, and it Jasper tried to eat it.....but i just don't want to replace it quite yet.....my military friends now have several changed addresses and some of those in there are no longer collecting mail here on earth....so thumbing thru it addressing Christmas cards.....nope, just can't quite bring myself to replace it just yet..... 

Happy Haunting

It was a Haunting Night at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow tonight! The annual Halloween party was a LOT of fun!

 

Ryan won the costume contest for the 12-18 year olds

wearing Ty's sniper outfit.

We had fun posing with the mummies! I was a

bloody mess school girl zombie and Vicki wore my

Apple Witch costume.

The Dude In Cammies was a Disgruntled 1st Sgt 

Zombie chick attacking the unsuspecting Marine

Silly dillies.....

Ty made it for the last part after football practice. He had fun in the back in the bar area
watching the football game. We joined him after they announced Ryan as the winner.

Sometimes things don't end well......but apparently we all grew.....

Always Get His Back Side!

I always seem to get his back side.....or a hand over my camera....even when I think I am being sly with my phone.....he just keeps spinning around, and here is a perfect example of how hard I have to work to get a picture of his front side!

 

Red & Black This Weekend

Looks like they have decided on black and red for the rodeo since these are the colors I see hanging in the kitchen! I like all their shirts......but the pink shirts are my favorite!

Love Him!

 

I zipped by the stables on my way home from work and look who I ran into! always LOVE running into him! Not sure if he feels the same! Hard to tell by his face! Ha! Always sooo serious! Getting all the last minute everythings done before the rodeo!

Fall Festival With The Marine

MCLB Barstow had their annual Fall Festival and it was a LOT of fun, but than life is always fun with The Dude In Cammies!

The 1st Sgt got things started by loading up his Marines in the train.

I still can't believe the train was able to pull all those Marines!

Vicki and Ryan had fun battling each other. Vicki won and had no

problem being proud of the fact that she destroyed her LITTLE

brother!  

 

These Marines were hilarious playing twister on the inflatable! They

were all out repeatedly but there was no telling them that!!! It was comical!

Ryan had fun on the rock wall and was reminded

that he is still afraid of heights!!!

His Marines LOVED putting him in jail!!!! It was a great fundraiser

for the Marine Corps Ball coming up!

Vicki and I are soooo rockin' the psychedelic look!

Celebrating At Peggy Sue's

Showing The Stables

3 More Years + One...

Dry Cleaners From Years Ago...

It was just like wow to be driving down these streets of Oceanside today.....these were the streets we were on regularly, atleast once a week and usually more often than that between the hair cuts, picking up dry cleaning, and just zipping around as young Marines and their families do......It was just quite a unique feeling to see my now much older Marine carrying one of his uniforms into one of the dry cleaners he used to go to with a child we hadn't even thought about yet following right behind him.....yes, it was a look back and smile kinda moment, and I ain't gonna lie, my smile also had some misty eyes too.....but I wear great big sunglasses so nobody noticed.....but wow.....it seems like yesterday that cammies were dry cleaned.....and we as well as all Marines were always on these little side streets at the many dry cleaners dropping off and picking up cammies....endless cammies....it was one of my 'W" jobs. I hadn't earned my I or F yet, still waiting on my E!!!! Back in the day the wife's ID card had a W on it and The Dude In Cammies lovingly referred to me as the "W" Gosh......seems like yesterday and a life time ago all smooshed together......

Now The Old Hospital!

Ohhhhhh.......Navel Hospital Camp Pendleton.....I went there as a kid AND I had TWO children born there!!! Thing One & Thing Two (Ty and Ryan) were both born there and all 4 had numerous shots there, Jorden had a his physical for Kindergarten there, his sling for when he broke his collar bone there, I had my head stapled back together there.....ohhhhh the memories.......we also camped there at the camp grounds at Lake O'Neil right there by the hospital......sad to see that the hospital is no longer in use.....there is a much nicer one now right by the main gate going out to Oceanside, but this will always be a beautiful site to me.....

Finished My Board!

I started this several months ago! Today I decided to get busy and paint my board and get this done!! I loved both these quotes so my board is reversible! This is soooo our family!

While I was painting Bella had her snout buried in the grass hunting crickets. She found and ate several. Jasper tried to get in on the action but had no success. It was so funny to watch them, kinda gross too! Bella LOVES her cricket snacks!!!

His Growing Up Has Been Intertwined With Iraq and Afghanistan

I was watching Ty as he went around the entire Iraq and Afghanistan wall....he was just reading everything and looking at all the pictures.....he was very quiet.  I wonder what our children are thinking.....there are times like these they don't talk and i can tell they don't want to....this was one of those moments....he just wanted to read it all....so much of his growing up has been immersed in what is going on in the Middle East. He has seen his Dad off to both of these countries to fight.  The early years it was just to 'go get the bad guys' but now he knows more of what it is to actually go and get the bad guys and so with each deployment his thoughts have changed i am sure.....i just really wonder what goes thru our childrens minds when they are quiet like in this moment..... 

Desperate Tutu

Poor Red a horrible Hot Spot getting out of control on his back from we think it was when he got his shaved hair cut for Texas and he got nicked. He of course was making it worse!!! We were trapped at the house with the packers but there were still scissors and some paper plates on the counter! In desperation a Tutu was created to keep him from scratching until later that night when we could zip to Walmart and get him a dog shirt to wear! Red was NOT happy about his tutu!!!! But it kept him from making his Hot Spot HOTTER!!!  

Sgt. York

I fell in love with this horse when we were at Ft Myers. We were in and out of the stables often feeding, checking on the horses, and taking them out of their stalls to walk around.  The Army has several horses, alot more than the Marines have, but they need a larger number due to the services they do just at Arlington alone. There are 4 Platoons of horses. The Platoons are either all white or all black. One Platoon is always gone. Each platoon gets a one week liberty pass to go to pasture each month and run around and be a horse! Lucky for me Sgt York wasn't on liberty. Since Sgt York wasn't on liberty i was able to spend quite a bit of time with him. He always poked his head out when i came by so i would stop and we would have some good chit chats. He thought he should chew on my hair while we were having these awesome discussions though.....Sgt York has some pretty incredible history. I loved his original name to start with. He came to the Army as a race horse who had slowed down and was not considered a winner anymore. His name was All Aboard Jules. Yep, that name just did NOT blend in with the other names in the stables so he had a name change to Sgt York. Being a race horse the guys at the stable weren't exactly sure what Sgt York's job was going to be. They decided to see how he would do with some mock combat training. The soldiers fired machine guns from his back and threw grenades along side him and he basically didn't even blink. Sgt York had secured himself a job! He is most famously known for being the riderless horse for President Reagan. He had Reagan's boots in the stirrups, turned backwards and made the famous walk seen around the world.  We talked about that day. I told him i watched him from Okinawa and that i thought he had done a beautiful job and he was a darn special horse to have had that honor for President Reagan.  I might have some better pictures of him on my real camera. The lighting in the stables isn't the greatest and the sun coming in reflecting off of everything made it hard to get some crisp pictures. But these are on my phone and i am blogging from my phone right now....But he is a beautiful horse. 

Sgt York is also a fun horse with a sense of humor. Sticking out his tongue at me when i told him my hair was off limits! My hair must really resemble hay....all the horses kept trying to lick and nibble on my head!

Looking Good

This picture of The Dude On A Horse is getting published somewhere but I have no idea where....just glad the photographer sent me the photo!!!  They get really dirty at the rodeos as you can tell by his gloves....

Funny Face #134 To The Dude In Cammies

Funny Face #134....but whose counting! We have taken phones to whole new level...i can probably write a book about how to keep your marriage alive and well via a phone...but i really don't want to share all the photos...Facebook, Instagram, and the Blogger only get an itty bitty snippet of what goes back and forth.  

I'll Raise Your Straw Hat....

This was the picture The Dude On A Horse sent today to say hi....i showed it to Ty...he laughed...

Ty did some thinking.......

Ty said his hat was better.....

...and that he would raise his Dads straw hat.....

And i couldn't be left out, so i sent him a picture that it's "Arty Time"!!!

Yes, we have a LOT of fun texting photos on our phones....

Dean LOVES Me!!!