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!