Volunteering and Outstanding Marines

This week Lima Company graduated.  Before the actual graduation starts, they form up in front of the theatre to get ready to march onto the parade deck.  

This is a picture of the Series Guidon bearer. He is one of our LDS marines and just recently received his temple recommend so he will return home with his wife and be sealed in the Fresno temple.
We are so happy for him!

 They are instructed to not move as they stand in preparation for marching to the parade deck and even though I stood directly in front of him for this picture, he did not move a muscle, what a marine!

This marine was without family for graduation and we just love when we get to spend some one on one time with them getting to know them better.  We took him out for Mexican food and then to the airport to fly home.

On Friday night the Marine Corps Community Services group held their yearly 

Daddy -Daughter dance. 

I volunteered to help with decorations and also both Jim and I helped at the actual event. We worked at the cake and punch table.  It was very busy with 400 attending.  Jim kept making more punch and I was continuously cutting cake.  We had two cakes donated by Sea World.  They were beautiful and fit perfectly with the theme for the night: "Under the Sea".

I took lots of pictures of the decorations.  The group did an amazing job! I only helped with the tissue flowers on one day for 4 hours, but lots of other work was done as evidenced by the result.

For the centerpieces they had some as pictured below and also some centerpieces were bowls of live goldfish which were raffled off as door prizes. The little girls loved it!

They set up different areas where the daughters could "fish" for jewelry or see "mermaids" inside their caves under water.  It was done in the field house (gym) and all the floors, walls and even the basketball hoops were covered and Jelly fish were hanging from them!
What an extraordinary activity!