Fabulous Army Life

Black Jack ladies attend the Farewell for 1st CAV's First Lady, Debbie Allyn. Trish and Cindy show off their Texas Casual!

Our brigade has the unique leadership team of a COL who is our brigade commander and his wife, who is a MAJ in a sister brigade in our division.  They were deployed at the same time, but were off-set by several months, with Trish leaving first and subsequently, returning first!  We were happy to welcome home our brigade senior spouse from her deployment to Iraq!  Welcome home, Trish! Trish greets her welcome home fans! Hugs for Trish! Marne and Trish The Black Jack Babes welcome back their Senior Spouse!

Brigade leadership gathered at the brigade commander's house tonight to farewell two staff officers leaving the unit soon.  It turned out to be a really fun time.  It was a casual, backyard event that happened to coincide with Cinco de Mayo ... which meant a fun fiesta, margaritas, and yummy TexMex.  My friend Melinda is the unofficial photographer of the group and took these great shots ... Viva Fiesta! These are some wonderful Army spouses.  Love them! Silliness on the trampoline Break the Egg with Lisa! Moment of silliness gone awry!

The 2nd Brigade Combat Team "Black Jack" ball was last night and we had such a great time. It was especially nice to attend a ball having not planned a thing and not worried about anything. =) Each battalion did provide their own table centerpieces but that turned out to be a fairly simple task for our seven tables of ten. Love my Red Dragon ladies! The dinner was good, the speaker (a former commander of the brigade, now a general officer) was very entertaining, and the evening was a fun, relaxing time that I thoroughly enjoyed. Red Dragon ladies at the Black Jack Brigade Ball Lots of fun dancing ... this is the "Copperhead Road" line dance. With my honey at the ball My 'do for the ball