Marine Ball

My son Luke is a member of the JR ROTC at his high school and it is sponsored by the Marines.
Well every year the Marine Corp celebrates the Birthday of the Marine Corp. They have a ceremony and then a Marine Corp Ball. The recruits get to invite a date and dance the night away.
Well my son invited me to go with him to his Ball. I was shocked and honored, I thought that was such a nice thing to do!!
I had a really good time.
Here are some pictures of the ceremony!




The firt picture is of my son marching!



Here are some more pictures right after the ceremony and of us before the ball and at the ball.

Grass is growing!!

Well as most of you know I am pretty obsessed with having grass in my back yard.
So obsessed that I bought a tiller and actually hauled steer poop in the back of my Rodeo..can you say GROSS!!
However it looks like my efforts are paying off!!
Here is the before picture.



and here is the after picture..it started coming in about 7 days.

The process was to till up the earth so it's workable. You can do that with a shovel but I wanted to do it quicker so I bought a tiller. Then once ground is broken up we shoveled in about 3 bags of steer poop and mixed it with the dirt, then raked the ground even, then spread seed evenly, then spread a healthy covering a steer poop and watered it twice a day until it started to sprout.
Pretty easy. I can't wait till it comes all the way in!!

Halloween is over!

Halloween is over! It happened to be one of the funnest Halloween's we have ever had!
We had our friends over and their children who are our children's friends and it was just a very fun time.
Here is a picture of Luke and Timothy and Bunny of course.

Here is the whole trick or treatin crew.


While the kids were all outside trick or treating all of us adults were hangin out at the house handing out candy and partyin it up!

Steve and I dressed up as drunk people for Halloween...we were very convincing!

Amy had the coolest costume, I just LOVED her witche's hat. I also discovered my friend has Green eyes...I always thought they were blue!


The boys also watched Gremlins and played board games when they got back home..They were very good and had a great time..Can't wait till next year!