Happy Birthday, Army!

The U.S. Army will celebrate its 235th birthday Monday, June 14.

Each year the Army celebrates with a fancy ball in the DC area. I'm working the public affairs piece for Army Birthday this year, so I thought I would treat myself to an evening of fun.

First I'd like to highlight that my hair stylists would charge me $90 to get an up-do. No, thank you. Instead I checked out do-it-yourself videos on YouTube, got some tips, and did my up-do all by myself. What say you?


This year's ball was held at the Gaylord, a newer hotel in National Harbor, MD. Stunning. (I tried my best to get a good photo of the ballroom, but the lighting wasn't working on my side.)




The evening began with a song by country music star, Trace Adkins and the West Point Glee Club.


After some introductions we moved on to the best part, DINNER!

Any meal with mozzerella will be an instant fav for me. This was our salad course:


Then the entree course, which consisted of beef tenderloin (soo good!) and crab cake.


Ahh, dessert. Yum!
(Poor R, who's allergic to chocolate, couldn't enjoy this.)



Dinner was followed by a short show by the Army's Drill Team;



And the Army Hearald Trumpets played:



Of course, you can't have a birthday celebration without cake. Trace Adkins about to cut the birthday cake (with his sword!):


Trace Adkins, whoo's a HUGE supporter of the troops. played an hour show after. He was amazing. We had such a great time.

Happy Birthday, Army!