Another Homecoming Creation

Today some Louisville wives and I put up a "cup" sign in the fence outside of one of the gates to Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Thankfully, we had a very talented designer, Kristina, who drew the design and stood on the right side of the fence to tell us where to put the "cups". Everyone was extremely cooperative, worked so well together and we finished in less than 3 hours! (We were expecting it to take a LOT longer.) We borrowed Put-in-Cups from two other boats here to create our masterpiece! They make fence "cup" designs SO much easier, don't blow out and the designs look much better! This was my first time working on a "cup" sign; I wrote a letter to Navy Legal, was granted permission to put up the sign a certain amount of hours before the boat arrives, and today we finally got to put it up! Everyone there was so excited to be working on the project, and it was a great success. Here is a final shot of our work!

The graphic on the left is the boat's logo, the black "dolphins" at the bottom center are the Navy's symbol for submarines, and the "724" is the hull number of the boat. Wa hoo! Homecoming is almost here!

Funny story from earlier in the week that I wanted to share:

February 28th was miss Kaylie Paige Hamm's 3rd birthday (I can't believe it)! On her birthday I called to sing the "Happy Birthday" song to her, a tradition that my parents, sister and I love to do to family and friends. I had only sung a few phrases of the song, when I hear a little shuffling and whispering on the other end of the line. When I finally finished my serenade, Mary got on the phone and told me that Kaylie had broken down mid-song and was crying! I didn't think that I was singing that badly, but maybe I was? Haha. Who knows, but I thought that was funny. For her birthday I sent her a hula girl costume and the book "The ABCs of Hawaii" (the American English alphabet - if it was the HI alpha, the book wouldn't have been very long). Here is a picture of precious Kaylie in her hula girl outfit. 

 And good luck to Mary as she shoots at a tournament in Poland!

Aloha,

RAWE