Easter

On Saturday, the base hosted an egg-roll for the various age groups of kids. We walked and just missed Finley's age group but he didn't seem to mind. He was more than thrilled with is balloon. Each age category had one metallic golden egg that earned a prize. You better believe Chris was right there on the sidelines coaching both Rylan and Quinn where it was and to go straight to it. Rylan got confused and didn't stand a chance against the bigger girl that snatched it, but he did get the yellow one right next to it and said proudly, "I got the golden egg, Dad!" Chris lived it up, like a good dad, and made its exciting to get a tootsie roll in the "gold" egg. When it was Quinn's turn, Chris got so worked up that he pushed her forward a little too hard and actually pushed her over instead of forward. She was mad as can be and made a huge scene blaming Chris for knocking her over and making her miss her chance to get the golden egg. It was hard not to laugh at her reaction. I was able to take her aside and talk her down a bit. Whew!

I had to get a little creative this year for Easter morning. We don't have their baskets or our eggs, so I was glad they got some eggs at the hunt the day before so I could reuse them for the easter bunny's visit. I had ordered some lego sets before we moved to be shipped here and so the display wasn't as extravagant but a little creativity and our current location assisted in the explanation. I knew they would be disappointed not to see a baby powder footprint trail like last year. We spent the morning building their lego sets and then tried out the Protestant service at the chapel on base. It definitely wasn't a fit for us. Later in the afternoon we went with some new friends to visit the Kinta Bridge. I'll make a new post for that.