Happy Belated Birthday

A happy belated 218th Birthday to the United States Coast Guard. Monday was the 218th anniversary of the founding of the Revenue Cutter Service by Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. Congress. The Revenue Cutter Service's name was changed in 1915 to the United States Coast Guard. For a really basic Coast Guard history, click here or here. Trent was away from his office on Monday and part of Tuesday, so we set up a belated celebration. This morning, we packed up our three wild calathumpians and followed Trent into work where we spilled confetti all over the table and set up our cupcakes, noise makers, and napkins, while Trent put up a happy birthday banner and put red and blue star garlands on the book shelves. Not much really, but it sure was fun. As with most things, I got the idea for the nautical cupcakes from a magazine my mom sent me. The set in the magazine also had sharks and schools of fish, but I left those out for the Coast Guard birthday. It was fun as we went into work early with Trent when someone asked us if there was a Coast Guard function today. We quickly explained. I guess with Trent being the only Coast Guard representative at CLAMO, it meant something was up relating to the Coast Guard. If any of our friends from the JAG School read this, you better go up there and get a cupcake. I don't want leftovers!