Feliz Cinco de Mayo!!

ASHLEY'S HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't she look GREAT! 

 I'm glad her Boat-Captain and Chief and Cooks on her boat are taking good care of my baby!  I need their addresses so I can send a heart-felt THANK-YOUUUU! She's not even bruised up this time as opposed to last time when she came home BLUE from bumping up on the doors and walls of her boat!  Who the heck was driving??? heeee!!!  She's like a delicate flower, ya'll!

She has talked NON-STOP about her patrols, Coast Guard life and BOYS and her boat and GUYS and on and on and on (...but as she's talking, she has this HUGE grin on her face!)

 She is SOOO happy.  She even said she couldn't wait to go back on patrol again!  WOW! 

She is so fortunate to have a wonderful Chief who she says is the best and loves her Captain (who I am glad is a female so Ash can see what females can achieve), she loves the cooks on the boat and her fellow BM'ers.

We're all just SOOOO happy for her!!!

I guess ya'll know we're headed to Guadalajara's tonight to help our south of the border neighbors celebrate this wonderous day!   I'll have to capture the moment tonight when we go.  Last year, it was all out in the parking lot because there were so many people there!

Ash is HOME! I have taken a load of pictures so far and they are here...

http://picasaweb.google.com/joanandmikesc/AshleySHome#

But, in my usual way, I'll put some on here too!

Fist, when she came home we HAD to head to Guadalajara...here Ash, Court are with Bubba!

Of Course, the girls have to get up and sing!  So, the girls and Chelsea (their friend and Faith who is Bubba's sister) all sang!

I would say it was great, but....NAH!

Here's some waiter guy Ashley was flirting with...sort of!

Actually, I think he was flirting with her!

Donna was there too - 

Then, Sunday afternoon, after I got off work, Mike and his parents had a big cook-out and it was FANTABULOUS! It was like a "Welcome Home, Ashley" cook-out! Here are the parents/Grandmas/Gt. Grandma

Mike and made a churn of Homemade Chocolate Fudge and it was a LITTLE on the not-frozen side, so Mike's Grandma made due...

Lauren was there and we were so...SO glad to have her!

I hope she had fun, we all over-ate and was a little sleepy after eating, but we roused up!

Speaking of over-eating!

BAH-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Deanna came with her friend-boy...I forgot his name...

here Ash and Deanna are together...awwwww......I LOVE that picture!!

Now HOW'd THIS picture get in here???

or THIS ONE!!!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!  Told ya'll the ice cream was GREAT!

Ya'll know how Court HAS to get in as many pictures as possible... Here's a great one of P.J. in it... Now this next picture I took and for some reason, it turned out AWESOME!

I don't know why, except that I took it!  HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (HEAR THAT DAD!)

Here is Ashley looking "Thoughtful" or "Constipated"...whatever... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Here are some of them in the pick-up...

Dad actually took that picture...I know ya'll were wondering what happened to the quality of the picture...just an F.Y.I. ! Lauren can TEXT, Baby! She could be a model for texting!

I like this picture...I would "LOVE" it, but Dad took it. whatev.

Here's anothe OK picture...

ANYways...there are LOADS and LOADS of pictures on our web albums.  

We're enjoying the weather and everyone being around while she's home.  I'll be putting loads more pics on here thru the week!

Take care!!!