{"id":74,"date":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day-ii-patricia-and-dave-the-early-days.html"},"modified":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:38:00","slug":"happy-valentines-day-ii-patricia-and-dave-the-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/02\/happy-valentines-day-ii-patricia-and-dave-the-early-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine’s Day II: Patricia and Dave, the early days."},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoy this photo from one of our earliest outings, my AFROTC Military Ball in Spring 1994. Made the dress myself! I miss sewing. Will need to talk about that sometime.<\/p>\n

More importantly, check out the brillo pad on my Dave’s head! Once he came on active duty he’s kept it so short you can’t tell how curly it can get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Enjoy this photo from one of our earliest outings, my AFROTC Military Ball in Spring 1994. Made the dress myself! I miss sewing. Will need to talk about that sometime. More importantly, check out the brillo pad on my Dave’s head! Once he came on active duty he’s kept it so short you can’t tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[20,34],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":352,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/the-incredible-changing-woman.html","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"The Incredible Changing Woman","date":"19 May 09","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm quite impressed -- in 2 1\/2 weeks I was able to go from this:From 2009 04 07 Muff_My_Last_WeekTo this:From 2009 04 24 AFWA_DiningOut(Do I look like one of those ladies from the cast of Dynasty just standing around in a formal gown?)I made it home from the desert in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force wife\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":473,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/10\/3-times-in-26-months.html","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":1},"title":"3 Times in 26 Months!","date":"14 October 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, let's all sing along (to the tune of Gene Autry's \"Back in the Saddle Again\"):I'm back in the O.R. againOut under anesthesia, which I dread....Where doctors take their knivesOn what remains of my G.I.Back in the O.R. againI'm writing this corny little song from the surgery waiting room at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SHbB9hoN7JI\/AAAAAAAASsA\/rqWQ5bOiGXk\/s400\/IMG_2720.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1445,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/09\/hurlburt-birthday-ball.html","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":2},"title":"The Hurlburt Field Air Force Ball","date":"21 September 12","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurlburt Field had their first ever Air Force Birthday Ball last weekend. 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