It is so sad to have heard the tragedy that occurred in Fort Hood. I don’t know all the details, but to even know that someone had the mentality to do that…horrific.
This is now brought even closer to home for me. This morning, I found out that the base we are stationed at had its own misfortune. All, I have heard was that one guy killed another Marine, left him under the pullup bars, then went to slit his own wrists. To make this worse for me, it happened just a half mile from where my husband works.
The whole base was on lock-down, but my husband knew nothing of it! I called to make sure he and his friends were okay, and he hadn’t heard!
How does all this happen in places that most would consider the safest place to be?? I know at least I would rather be in a secure, self-sustaining military base while everything outside is chaotic!
I mean, yes, the rest of the world may target military bases in the thought that crippling them, would also cripple and stun the whole country (and they are right). But to have killings happen within the base (supposing the Fort Hood shooter isn’t a terrorist, like some are implying) is outrageous!
As a fellow military member, I understand the brotherhood, the bond that all military members share, no matter what the branch! (yes, each branch has their arguments, but in the heat of battle, most everyone of them would sacrifice for the one next to them) And to actually go on a killing rampage on their own family is unfathomable!
My thoughts and prayers are with those friends and family of the lives lost.
Kevin & Evie
Friday, November 6, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
My Cinderella Moment?!!?
So, last Friday was the Marine Corps Ball. It was exactly how I had imagined.
Of course, it wasn’t the glitzy, glamorous, princess ball like in Disney movies, but it was amazingly elegant!!
My dress was my FAV part of the evening! I'm not trying to sound conceited, I mean I looked awful, I had to do my own hair for crying out loud!! But my dress…to me..was breathless. I didn’t want to take it off!!!
Anyway…I had been looking forward to this night for months!! I missed the last 2 years of the ball because I was in a different state and it was just hard, but, this year was all mine!! So, needless to say, I had been looking for my dress for even longer!
Just as my wedding dress, I had found my ball gown online, I don’t remember the site now, but I had been searching through thousands of pictures, and when I finally came across the picture of mine…it was like a perfect moment..my world had stopped and all was quiet..for about 3 seconds anyway.
You know how all clothing stores have different sizes for their clothes, and when in one store you wear a certain size, but the same thing in another store its completely different?! Well, same thing happened to me. Never in my life had I had to buy anything more than a size maybe 4 in clothes…but this dress is a size 6!!! I don’t mean for this to sound bad.
But to make it funny, I was talking to my best friend, Ashton’s mom, Donna and her response to my unexpected new clothing sizes was, “Im telling you, marriage will do that!” Hhahaha I about died because my response back? “O my word! I hope not!! Its only been 3 months!!”
Okay, Im getting sidetracked again..before the ball, we met up with 3 other couples (guys in his unit and their wives) at a hotel to get ready.
When we finally got to the convention center where the ball was, it was already real crowded but we got a table to fit all of us and more. It started out with several different ceremonies and speakers:
National Anthem
Marine Corps Hymn
Sword Ceremonies
Guest of Honor Speech
Dedication for the fallen Marines
Cake Cutting
Honoring the youngest and oldest Marines present
Retiring of flags
After all the standing and sitting, they served us our meals. Which was surprisingly good! After that, there was dancing and socializing. Pretty fun night.
I cant wait to go back next year…o wait, only 1 year?! Ill have to start looking for a dress now!!
;)
God Bless,
Kevin & Evie
Of course, it wasn’t the glitzy, glamorous, princess ball like in Disney movies, but it was amazingly elegant!!
My dress was my FAV part of the evening! I'm not trying to sound conceited, I mean I looked awful, I had to do my own hair for crying out loud!! But my dress…to me..was breathless. I didn’t want to take it off!!!
Anyway…I had been looking forward to this night for months!! I missed the last 2 years of the ball because I was in a different state and it was just hard, but, this year was all mine!! So, needless to say, I had been looking for my dress for even longer!
Just as my wedding dress, I had found my ball gown online, I don’t remember the site now, but I had been searching through thousands of pictures, and when I finally came across the picture of mine…it was like a perfect moment..my world had stopped and all was quiet..for about 3 seconds anyway.
You know how all clothing stores have different sizes for their clothes, and when in one store you wear a certain size, but the same thing in another store its completely different?! Well, same thing happened to me. Never in my life had I had to buy anything more than a size maybe 4 in clothes…but this dress is a size 6!!! I don’t mean for this to sound bad.
But to make it funny, I was talking to my best friend, Ashton’s mom, Donna and her response to my unexpected new clothing sizes was, “Im telling you, marriage will do that!” Hhahaha I about died because my response back? “O my word! I hope not!! Its only been 3 months!!”
Okay, Im getting sidetracked again..before the ball, we met up with 3 other couples (guys in his unit and their wives) at a hotel to get ready.
When we finally got to the convention center where the ball was, it was already real crowded but we got a table to fit all of us and more. It started out with several different ceremonies and speakers:
National Anthem
Marine Corps Hymn
Sword Ceremonies
Guest of Honor Speech
Dedication for the fallen Marines
Cake Cutting
Honoring the youngest and oldest Marines present
Retiring of flags
After all the standing and sitting, they served us our meals. Which was surprisingly good! After that, there was dancing and socializing. Pretty fun night.
I cant wait to go back next year…o wait, only 1 year?! Ill have to start looking for a dress now!!
;)
God Bless,
Kevin & Evie
Monday, November 2, 2009
dating, deployments, marriage, moving...wheww!
Hi to all! Kevin and I are completely new to this Twitter stuff, but we thought we’d try it out!
Kevin and I grew up in Indiana and met in middle school where we only dated for about a month, but we always stayed good friends throughout high school.
Kevin joined the Marines and left on Sept 11, 2006, the fall after graduation. I went to a local business college. While on leave that next spring, Kevin and I started talking again and hanging out a lot. We decided to make it official that April. It was a LOONNNGGG 2 years apart.
Kevin deployed that next march, while I was away at basic and AIT for the National Guard. I tried to keep myself busy that summer with school, family and friends. In October, he returned safely (finally!!). I got to come down to Camp Lejeune, with his parents and visit for a week after he got back.
Throughout the next few months, Kevin was able to take leave to Indiana and visit occasionally. Although being apart most of our dating time was hard, I think it’s the reason why we are so close now. We value the time that we do have together so much because we know it might not last long.
Lets skip up to Memorial Day of 2009. We had been talking about getting married, and we both knew its what the Lord wanted, and we both felt ready. So that Saturday, he popped the question! We had gone out to dinner that night with my parents so that he could ask their permission first. But then, Kevin tricked me and told me he didn’t have the ring yet, but he wanted to ask them still. I believed him! Then he surprised me with the most gorgeous ring I’d ever seen! Everyone was thrilled for us! We both just seem to fit right into each others family, so that made it even better!
Orginally, we had the wedding planned for August 22 of that same year (not much time to plan!) but I soon found out that Kevin would be in California for training, so we had to either move it up, or wait a lot longer, because he was supposed to deploy in November also, soo...our decision: Move it up!!
We then, decided on July 3, only 3 weeks away (and I didn’t even have a dress yet!!!) We knew we were taken a chance, since it was July 4th weekend, but we were okay with that; we didn’t want to wait any longer, and plus, most people thought it was perfect! With both of us in the military, a patriotic wedding was just the thing for us!
And so, it went off without a hitch! 2 days after the wedding, he had to go back to North Carolina, and I was finally going with him! To save on money, we are rooming with another couple, in a gorgeous beach house! It's a block away from the water and so very very pretty!! We went to highschool with Scott (the others we are staying with), and he got stationed here also, about the same time Kevin did. He met his wife at the beginning of 2009, and was married the week after Kevin and I!
So far, married life has been better than I’d ever thought!
We’ll keep you all updated on our latest adventures! Stay tuned!!
Love, Kevin & Evie
Kevin and I grew up in Indiana and met in middle school where we only dated for about a month, but we always stayed good friends throughout high school.
Kevin joined the Marines and left on Sept 11, 2006, the fall after graduation. I went to a local business college. While on leave that next spring, Kevin and I started talking again and hanging out a lot. We decided to make it official that April. It was a LOONNNGGG 2 years apart.
Kevin deployed that next march, while I was away at basic and AIT for the National Guard. I tried to keep myself busy that summer with school, family and friends. In October, he returned safely (finally!!). I got to come down to Camp Lejeune, with his parents and visit for a week after he got back.
Throughout the next few months, Kevin was able to take leave to Indiana and visit occasionally. Although being apart most of our dating time was hard, I think it’s the reason why we are so close now. We value the time that we do have together so much because we know it might not last long.
Lets skip up to Memorial Day of 2009. We had been talking about getting married, and we both knew its what the Lord wanted, and we both felt ready. So that Saturday, he popped the question! We had gone out to dinner that night with my parents so that he could ask their permission first. But then, Kevin tricked me and told me he didn’t have the ring yet, but he wanted to ask them still. I believed him! Then he surprised me with the most gorgeous ring I’d ever seen! Everyone was thrilled for us! We both just seem to fit right into each others family, so that made it even better!
Orginally, we had the wedding planned for August 22 of that same year (not much time to plan!) but I soon found out that Kevin would be in California for training, so we had to either move it up, or wait a lot longer, because he was supposed to deploy in November also, soo...our decision: Move it up!!
We then, decided on July 3, only 3 weeks away (and I didn’t even have a dress yet!!!) We knew we were taken a chance, since it was July 4th weekend, but we were okay with that; we didn’t want to wait any longer, and plus, most people thought it was perfect! With both of us in the military, a patriotic wedding was just the thing for us!
And so, it went off without a hitch! 2 days after the wedding, he had to go back to North Carolina, and I was finally going with him! To save on money, we are rooming with another couple, in a gorgeous beach house! It's a block away from the water and so very very pretty!! We went to highschool with Scott (the others we are staying with), and he got stationed here also, about the same time Kevin did. He met his wife at the beginning of 2009, and was married the week after Kevin and I!
So far, married life has been better than I’d ever thought!
We’ll keep you all updated on our latest adventures! Stay tuned!!
Love, Kevin & Evie
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