Travis is gone again.....

Travis left today, February 23rd for Camp Pendalton in San Diego, Ca. He will be there for 3 weeks for more training. When he is done there he will be going to Pensacola Fl for his school.

Travis Graduated..... Again!

Well Travis has graduated again! This time it was from the Marine Corp Bootcamp! I am very proud of him. He has turned into a young man. Donovan, Ali, Elisabeth (Ali's friend) and I flew out to San Diego on Tuesday the 9th. My mom and my sister joined us out there on the next day. After they got into town we all drove up to Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills. It was interesting, but I will never go again. On Thursday the MCRD (Marine Corp Recruit Depot) had family day on the base. We watched Travis take off for his 4 mile run in the morning (the first time we have seen him in 13 weeks) then about 12:30 he had on base liberty until 5:00pm. On Friday the 12th we headed back to MCRD at 7:00am for the graduation ceremony at 10:00am. We got to catch the colors ceremony first, it was neat. The graduation ceremony was over by 11:30am and Travis was free to leave the base!! We saw his friend Jared that went to bootcamp with him at graduation. Jared hurt his leg in week 3 of training and has been in Medical ever since. He will be able to resume training in mid March. Friday after graduation we messed around San Diego some and went shopping (Travis was ready for civilain clothes). Saturday mom and Kim flew back to Fort Worth. We did more shopping and more site seeing in San Diego. While we were there we were able to see the beaches on Ocean Beach, Mission Bay, and Coronado Island, they were all beautiful. On Sunday we caught a plane back to Texas. Travis was very excited to be back in Weatherford! We are all very proud of him! He gets to stay home for a week and maybe a littler longer, we should know in the next day or two, then he has to head back to Camp Pendleton in San Diego for 3 more weeks of combat training. Then he will be in Pensacola Fl for school.