My little (well not so much anymore!) is officially a US Marine. We all went to San Diego for his graduation. Painful, I know. Although it was a short trip spent mostly on base, we did get to go to the zoo, the beach and eat In N Out twice. Here are the highlights of the graduation:
I thought this was poignant, and pretty much summed up the whole trip.
Here is our first view of him after 3 months. Where'd all that hair go?
Here he is 4 years ago, a month after he graduated high school. Yeah, there's just a
slight difference.
After we saw him (from afar) they did a 4 mile "motivational run." He said he can now run 3 miles in 14 minutes. I guess all that track and cross country in high school paid off:
Again, lots more hair back then!
The whole family, after he was finally turned over to us. (Just for the day, and we had to stay on base. PS The base has a department store where everything is super cheap and there's no sales tax. I wish I'd bought the Michael Kors bag, but I did get a Lacoste polo for Christopher. Orange, of course, for trips to Knoxville this fall. Oh! There was a Starbucks on base. God bless the Marines.)
His first Coca Cola in 3 months! (probably the #1 reason I couldn't be a Marine ha!)
Proud big sis! Confession: Everyone made bets on whether our mother would cry or not. We all lost, she didn't. Not that we could tell. They should have bet on me.
End of visitor's day. Kind of a tease, we had to give him back until the next day.
The graduate! (2nd from the back)
Proud family
Of course, I wanted an "An Officer and a Gentleman" picture!
Put the dress blues on just for me, since I wouldn't be flying back to Colorado with the rest of the family. Looks sharp!
