Lunch At Ruby's!

Wow!!! It has been a VERY, VERY LONG TIME since we walked the pier to eat at Ruby's!!!! When we first moved into our Parker House on Camp Pendleton and would walk the pier we were just a poor Lance Corporal family making basically nothing. We just thought Ruby's was an expensive restaurant and we never dared even open the door! One day as a Corporal family I guess we were feeling a little braver and opened the door. We were just going to look at the menu.....WELL!!!!! When we looked inside we gasped and started cracking up!!!! It was a 50's Diner!!!! Yeah, we ate there, lots of times! The first place I ever heard of a chocolate coke! It was delicious!!!

Today.......

Yesterday ooops, I mean yesterYEARS.......Spring 1999...

The Parker House Today

Removing More Memories

Getting the house ready to rent means taking down all the little itty bitty pieces that make it a home....

Vicki made this collage for me our first time we were here for Mother's Day, back in 2010....It has been hanging on the kitchen cabinet ever since....The Dude in Cammies was in Afghanistan.... 

Throw Back Thursday 4-3-14

The Dude in Cammies is at a baseball game tonight with a bunch of Marines.....soooooo, i thought this would be a fun Throw Back Thursday for him.....

This was Ty's first year of baseball, it was First Steps, where the kids would play but always had to have a parent with them to shadow them at every position. Ryan wasn't old enough, but he was able to be out in the outfield and pretend to be shadowing Ty as well. It was so cute because Ryan would copy everything Ed would tell Ty to do. Ed coached Jorden's team with some of his buddies from the Hemet Police Department and Sandie and i were the team Mom's. It was a really fun season. Jorden's 2 best friends were Sandies boys and they were on the team and her husband, Jim is the police officer holding the banner with Ed. They were good friends of ours when we were stationed at Pendleton and lived in Hemet. Some fun baseball memories.  

A Year Later in Swansboro

A year ago tonight my love and i were at the Tree Lighting in Swansboro.  We were so happy that The Dude in Cammies was able to participate in some holiday festivities before he left for a year on the battlefields of Afghanistan. I love this picture of us.....i wore the same thing i wore last year and took a picture in the same spot.....when he comes home i think we will go take a picture in this same spot....