Stuff that happened

For Month of the Military Child, I helped pop 400 bags of popcorn to give to the middle school kids. It took 3 hours and I smelled like butter.

My awesome friend Steph sent me this sweet shirt! And I love it! 

Callie participated in a "Writing Rally" on Saturday morning and competed with 12 other writers from all 3 middle schools.  She said there were some excellent writers there, and she had a good time. 

Rylee's school had Field Day.  She wasn't sure she wanted to participate, but she had a good time.  I snagged photos from the PTO FB page. 

Sure looks like she's enjoying herself! 

 In science class, Delaney had to grow plants at school.  Her cucumber plant produced this!  

Okinawa specials

I don't know why I thought this was so fun, but I did.  They went and stopped at every single light to check it and change the bulb.  So they were all over the neighborhood that day.   

 A Tsunami evacuation sign.  So you know where to go in case it happens.

 The awesome T-shirt the PTO gave the kids to celebrate Month of the Military Child.

The adorable kokeshi dolls we designed for the Middle school.... that I still have not ordered for myself, despite being in charge of them! 

Prom

 Somebody went to Prom and all I got were these .... eclectic.... photos.

No, I have no idea what was happening here.  I wasn't there.  Josh went out to his lovely lady's house and went directly to Prom from there, so I never saw them.  And I did not get to take any pictures that showed them at their best!  All I got was this, that Josh sent me later.

Big Buddha at the Peace Memorial Park

I went on a quick excursion with my friend Calla.  We didn't have a ton of time, so we went to the Peace Park and Memorial and checked out the Big Buddha.

Since it was almost Golden Week, and Children's day would be soon, the koinobori were flying.  The carp streamers were quite fun!

We did find the Big Buddha. And we folded (badly!) an origami crane for the box of cranes that will eventually be turned into a 1000 crane streamer.

Did yo know, that there are stairs behind the Buddha that take you down to a little room, and in that room are lots of rocks.  Seems a little odd.  But every country sent Okinawa a piece of rock from their country in a sow for peace.

I thought Miranda would have loved it.  It was rather fascinating to see how different the rocks chosen were.

This is my "I was there" photo.

And this was the cool bell by the building.  I did not ring it!  But you know I wanted to!

Feeling Blue

This face cracks me up!  I think this is my favorite Delaney selfie. I love this kid! I mean, how can you not smile and feel happier just looking at this?!

Rylee and Delaney have been asking to dye some hair blue.  And I thought, why not. It is just hair, and it grows.  Plus, the awesome hair lady who cut Rylee's hair gave us some tips.  We bought the temp hair color and went to town.

This is the strip of hair that is getting dyed.

She loved it!  It was pretty cute.

Rylee was also quite pleased with it.

And yes.... it washes out in about 5-7 washes.  So it lasted less than 2 weeks.  But we will do it again. It is a lot of fun.

At the Pool

 Why yes, it is warm enough to go to the pool comfortable.  and no, I do not like that it is that warm already.  But we did enjoy the pool. We even took some friends with us and a merry time was had by all.  They LOVE that they can all swim in the deep end now.

Easter

 How was Easter for us?  Well, we didn't take many pictures apparently!

 There was an Easter event at the District building.  Rylee is the only one left in Primary, but Delaney and Callie attended as helpers.

The kids got their Easter baskets and after church the kids brought this out for me!  Josh had driven them to the commissary to shop for goodies and they secretly made Dan and I baskets!  Are they not the best?!!

And Rylee got this chick and promptly had to make som accessories for it.  And now it is immortalized forever on the Internet.

Levi

 Levi is one handsome dog.

 Everyone recognizes him and loves him.

Everyone at the dog park likes to play with him because he get along with all the other dogs. 

And he was happy to take  selfie with us. 

 Oh yes.  Did I mention he got his Spring haircut?  Yes, he did.

He looks like a completely different dog, doesn't he!

Kintai? Oh yes, Kintai!

You know I love Kintai.  And I love Cherry Blossoms.  We managed to catch the very end of Sakura Season with our trip, so we went to see the last of the blossoms.  There were still some lovely flowers and my heart was happy.

See, my beautiful bridge!

Blossoms and the Iwakuni Castle.

It is just so Japanese and I love it!

Be still my heart! 

Rylee and I and the Sakura.

Bridge from a slightly different angle!

Me and my favorite cherry blossom trees.

Just because it is pretty.

Me and the Bridge.

A not very good picture of Rylee and the bridge.  But it is the only one I got!