Happy 19th...

Birthday to my amazing son!


It's still so hard to believe that you are all grown up and in college.


You've had quite the amazing 2008...


Graduation from high school..


Hanging out with your sister...


Getting ready to embark on your future...


I wonder what was going through your mind as you looked at the ship that would be your future for the next 4 years, and about the intense training you were about to start an hour from this picture....


What a rush this must have been.....jumping from the ship and swimming away...we had no doubts you could do this, you know being a life guard ;)


Sigh...my little popeye...learning to stand at attention...


Becoming an ROTC Cadet...


Learning to play a new sport, Rugby (he's in the gray sweatshirt)...


As you completed your first phase of training by becoming a 4th class midshipman....I wondered if you wished I was there to do your laundry ;)...all these uniforms that have to look just so...

Going to your first Navy Ball...


Seeing you with no hair is going to take some getting used to! Studying for your finals (9 total...ick) So glad I'm not you..... I hope you are ok, spending your first birthday away from home. Also hoping the cake that is to be delivered to you is almost as good as mine ;)
(So glad the college has fundraisers for this, so you won't think you are forgotten)

I can't believe in 1 week you'll be home, looking forward to me doing your laundry, driving your truck, eating foods you can't find in that small college town, visiting friends and family, bothering your sister....and just chilling for a while. You deserve it!