Story Behind This Pic:

This is a picture taken at the Marine Corps Ball. James was SO excited to be there. So excited to introduce me to his unit, to his staff sergeant, etc. Anything Marine Corps, and hubby goes gaga. He loves it. At one point during the evening his Lieutenant started walking over towards us. I could see James' posture improve, and his smile cease, as he anticipated what this meant. He did indeed come over to us. He asked ME to stand up (in a room full of 400+ people) and he presented me with a Marine Corps spouse certificate and coin. He said that girlfriends seem to come and go for un-married Marines, and when one enlists who is married, they want to make sure and support her too, and thank her for her service and support of her husband. It was very special.

After that, James was a little proud, and I was a little giddy. I got out our camera to take a pic of us to commemorate this moment. James stretched his arm out to take our self portrait. I kept smiling my giddy little smile. He kept looking at the pic and then saying we needed to take it over. So I just kept on with my smiling not have a clue that he was up to some thing:

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That man of mine was making silly silly faces for every pic... and I didn't even know it. Finally one of the LCPLs across the table starts laughing (and I still didn't know why...) and he takes the camera and takes this picture for us:

For the record: I didn't look thru the pics til later and about fell over laughing. I loved them. Every single one of them.

Happy Memories :)

Happy 31st Birthday Honey. Love you. Miss you. A whole gosh darn lot.