Seabees Birthday Bash

Joel and I had the opportunity to attend the Seabees Birthday bash!! It was so much fun and we learned about a part of the Navy we didn't even know existed. The Seabees are a construction batallion - basically the "land" side of the Navy. They have a history of building bases, paving roadways and airstrips, and many other construction projects worldwide, dating back to WWII. Come to find out, there was a John Wayne movie in 1944 called "The Fighting Seabees"!! Who knew?! They're a super important part of the military and we were glad to have the opportunity to celebrate their birthday with them.

It's normally a "ball" but this year they made it a costume party. Since the Seabees have been in existence since the 1940's, you could dress up in any decade since then. We chose the 1960's, based on our admiration for the show "Mad Men". We did some research on hair, makeup, clothes, etc. Thank you YouTube for tutorials!! Unfortunately, our camera was on some weird setting so the pictures didn't turn out that great, but hopefully you'll get a 60's vibe...

We tried to look "serious". Don and Betty Draper have a love/hate relationship on "Mad Men". Unfortunately, I think we just look scary.

Smiling, much better.

We went with our friends Eric and Michelle who dressed up 1950's style. They are SO cute!

Awwwwww!

Btw, the cigarettes are fake. Joel made a deck of cards box look like "Lucky Stripe" cigarettes and rolled some paper, stuffed it with cotton, and used color pencil to shade in a filter. LOL. They were a big hit! Everything thought we special ordered Lucky Stripes... we weren't that hard core into being authentic, ha ha.

Serious ladies.

I was DD that night, so I borrowed my friend's glass of wine to pose for the role of Betty Draper who was a big fan of red wine... and lots and lots of cigarettes!

Our friends Jason and Sheila totally had the best costumes! Sheila's wig is actually a "Napoleon Dynamite" style!! They originally ordered it for Jason, but it looked better on Sheila. :-p

Kissing the Seabee... a bee with a gun... interesting.

Joel thought the Seabee would like a smoke...

Tearing up the dance floor! They played all kinds of music from every decade. It was a great night!