The Marine Corps looks pretty good for 234!

Nov 10 was the 234th birthday of the Marine Corps and every year we celebrate with the Marine Corps birthday ball! Aaron happened to finish his last flight of the RAG this day so it was extra special, he is now officially a Osprey Pilot and checked into his new squadron this week!

This year the ball was in Atlantic Beach, NC about an hour north of our house at a really nice resort! We had a great time celebrating the birthday and Veterans Day! It makes you so proud and grateful seeing a room full of handsome Marines in their dress blues, god bless them for everything they do! Here are a few pictures to enjoy!




My Marine!


Dancing



Singing Karaoke after the ball


Handsome Marines


The girls before the ball


We are getting ready for a house full of guests to arrive this week for Thanksgiving, Aaron's whole family and my mom are coming down to celebrate with us!

We have a busy couple of months ahead of us. We will be here for Thanksgiving, home to Indiana for a week or so for Christmas and then Aaron will be gone most of Jan, Feb and part of March for training in California and New Mexico! Time is flying by!

FINALLY!!

Sorry for the lack of posts, I am still adjusting to this working full-time thing, especially driving at least 4 hours a day :)!!! Below are some pictures from when my dad, Cynthia and all the kids came for a visit!

We had the best time, the weather was perfect! It was so warm we were able to fully enjoy the beach house they rented! We went to some great places to eat, we spent a lot of time going to base buying Marine Corps t-shirts, watching all the plans fly over and even were able to tour a few, which my dad loved! We had a great time and I cant wait for them to come back!

Our next round of visitors come for Thanksgiving! Aaron's whole family and my mom! Lots of fun things coming up in the next few months!!!

Here are some pictures to enjoy!





The Forgey/Jarrett Clan




Dan (Aaron's best friend) doing a special fly over in his Huey for my fam!!! I missed the really low pictures bc I was so excited I couldn't focus!!!




Not a bad view :)


Enjoying the deck on the beach house



Holly and I lunch on the island!


The whole gang!




Jills and I at dinner!

A New Life

For the past two years while we have moved around it has been difficult for me to find a full-time job, in Corpus I worked at a school as an aide and at a cute boutique then in Pensacola I got a job the month before we moved at the daycare center on base. I was also working on my teaching license on-line. Well when we moved to North Carolina I never dreamed I would find a full time job. I figured I would continue school and try to find an aide job, shortly after we moved here I realized working at a school was going to be out of the question with all the budget cuts and the HUGE amount of military wives that are teachers! So I started to look else where and applied to everything and anything, well after months and months of interviewing at places I wasnt crazy about I finally got a job that I love!

I am working for a company called Dynasplint Systems, Inc. I am the new sales consultant for the Raleigh/Durham area (yes 2 hrs from our house). Dynasplint is a medical device company that sells splints for range of motion issues to Orthopaedics and Physical Therapists. I was in training last week in Annapolis, MD it was so much fun! It was very intense but it was nice to relax in the evening with dinner downtown Annapolis and walks around the Naval Academy!! Aaron was a little jealous that I was back in his old stomping grounds!


So this is my official first week and so far I love it, Raleigh is 2 hours from our house so I will be spending lots of time in my car, but the good thing is I make my own schedule so it wont be too bad!

Its so nice to finally have a "real" job after two years of job hopping! Wish us luck, its going to be an adjustment for both of us!

I will try to keep up with the blog as my life gets a lot more busy!

Labor Day Visitors!

The Cordials and the Groves came to visit us for Labor day! We had an absolute blast! The weather was ok....but that didn't slow us down one bit! We had dinner in Wilmington, grilled out, had a shrimp boil, shopped, fished, checked out the osprey, and went on the boat! It was a great weekend and we hope they will come back and visit again and hopefully we can make it to Columbus someday to see their houses!!! Here are some pictures of the weekend!





11 lbs of shrimp!



Boys cooking the shrimp




Buddies!





Jordan and Ron



Chad grilling the clams we got at the beach!



Lunch on the beach!




Our spot on the beach for the day





Flounder Gigging




The boys before they headed out to flounder gig





Dinner in Wilmington


The Cordials and the Groves came to visit us for Labor day! We had an absolute blast! The weather was ok....but that didn't slow us down one bit! We had dinner in Wilmington, grilled out, had a shrimp boil, shopped, fished, and went on the boat! It was a great weekend and we hope they will come back and visit again and hopefully we can make it to Columbus some day to see their houses!!! Here are some pictures of the weekend!

1 Chemo left!

I know I haven't posted anything lately about Cynthia and her cancer treatment, but she is doing really well and only has one chemo left!!! Here is a cute picture of her sporting her trendy scarf!

Amelia turns 6 !!!!

While I was home in Indiana I was able to go to Amelia's sixth birthday party in the park!!! I cant believe how old she is and acts so grown up!!!! Here are some pictures!



Birthday Girl!!!




Alec being silly!


Amelia with her brother and his friend



Birthday Girl!

Mr and Mrs Templeton

The Templetons!



My date for the evening! Mazur






All the Chio girls in the Haute for the wedding!