Marine Corps Ball

Well, Friday, November 2 was two very important things. First and foremost, it was mine and Chris' five year anniversary! It's so hard to believe that we've been married for 5 years now! When I think of how much we've done in the past five years, my mind gets blown away! Three trips across county, lived in two states, two trips to Iraq (ok, so those were solo trips for Chris!), a trip to Ireland, promotions, house and car buying, and last, but certainly not least, became parents! Oh, we've also gotten 5 years older! We haven't done anything for our anniversary yet except go to our Marine Corps Ball. Which brings me to the next event! The 232nd birthday of the Marine Corps is on November 10. Every November, the Marines celebrate with a big birthday celebration. This year, ours was on Friday. The day started out busy and ended busy!!! I had to drop off Elijah at Nana and Granddaddy's house at 8:30 AM! I had nails done at 9 and hair done at 11:30. I got home, packed up the car and we left the house at 2:00. Of course we had to stop by my parents' house to say a quick goodbye to Elijah! We got to the hotel at 3:45 and Chris has rehearsal at 4:00 (he was in the ceremony again). Our friends Donna and Jonathan came with us and we went downstairs at 6:00, just in time for cocktails (did I mention that it was an open bar?!) and pictures. The ceremony started promptly at 7:00 where they read the birthday message from General LeJuene and did the ceremonial cake cutting. The youngest Marine present was born in 1985!!! Our guest speaker was Lt. General Christmas. He was a pretty good speaker. After that, we had dinner. A choice of chicken or beef. The beef was really good! Then we danced and danced until about 11:30. I know, early birds! But it ended at midnight and that was way past our bedtime!! And when I say Chris danced, he danced. Splits and all! The next morning, we met our friend Rachel (my college roommate) for breakfast and were at my parents' house by 12:00. Then we did nothing the rest of the day! Just recovering from Friday! We are really gratefull that mom and dad watched Elijah, and we had a great time, but we REALLY missed him!!!!!

(Originally posted 11-04-07)