Happy Easter

Getting ready for the Egg Hunt. On your mark, get set, GO!!!

The kids counting up their loot.

Jen was sad that she wasn't going to have these kind of eggs this Easter. It's their tradition and she was missing home. I thought maybe we could help. So Leia and I made Jen her Easter eggs filled with confetti. We had a fun morning coloring them. It's harder then it looks coloring an empty egg.They are so delicate.

I made my own confetti by cutting up tissue paper. Then at the end you pop in a cottonball.


I put them in my bunny basket. They turned out so pretty I didn't want to break them.

A close up of our eggs.

They were so surprised that we made these. Jen had a tear in her eye.I can't bring them Texas but I can bring them some eggs.

Jen and Abram with the eggs that we made for them. We had a confetti good time.

Jen made 2 eggs herself. One for Chris and one for Abram. We caught them both off guard. You smash the eggs on peoples head.We surprised them with flour instead of confetti.

Leia got dressed up to mop my floors.

This is how Chris felt after he woke up after the Go-Cart accident.

Myrtle Beach

We went to Myrtle Beach yesterday. It was a fantastic time to go. It was in the low 80's, so it was comfortable.We stopped and ate at Joe's Crab Shack. You pay for the nice atmosphere and lousy food. We wanted seafood so bad and they didn't know how to cook it. Later that night we found a wonderful seafood buffet. I can still taste the yummy shrimp and steak. We did have a good time though.

We're at one of the gift shops and the kids enjoyed playing .

There was a pizza restaurant and the gulls were lined up waiting for a handout.

This shopping center was awesome.They had everything you could think of.

Put-put,pirate ships,playgrounds,shops,food,paddle boats,aquarium,IMAX 3-D theater,a regular theater,more shopping,bouncy houses,and tons more.I enjoyed walking around just taking it all in.

More pictures of the shopping center.They had a volcano that puffed out fire and tons of waterfalls.

Who's that long legged kid? Man she has grown so much.

The paddle boats and Joe's Crab Shack restaurant.

The Easter Bunny even made an appearance.

Later that night we returned back to this shopping center to watch fire works. It was an end to the perfect day. Except the dogs were going crazy at home having to potty, since we had been gone for soooo long. Jen beat us home by about 2 hours so I had her let them out for us. Thank you Jen.

They had a Nascar race track there as well. Abram had never been on a go-cart before so Chris was supper excited to introduce this sport to him.

Chris and Leia ready to kick tail.

Nobody could catch up to him. He had such a huge lead.Leia enjoyed every second of it.

Chris about to overlap Abram. Now on his defence Chris was the first one out on the start and Abram was 2nd to last. But it made for a great race between the two for the last lap.

This picture was taken right before the impact of the yellow car that hit Chris. They stop everyone when the race is over. The little boy ,who in my opinion,was too young to drive the big cars, slammed into Chris full throttle. He was hit so hard that his car flew forward another cars link while he was hitting the cars in front of him. His new glasses ,that he just got the day before, was knocked off. They hit the car in front of him and then bounced back and skidded on the side of the track. The attendant couldn't stop laughing at Chris and finally asked if he was OK. It hurt is neck and back.The kid said that the breaks didn't work,but they tested it out before we left and they worked just fine. He probably hit the gas instead of the breaks.He barley got a sorry form the dad. The kid didn't say a word.

After the race and a quick stop at a store to get some pain medicine, we made it to the beach.

I still think Panama City is prettier.Whiter sand. But for Spring Break it wasn't crowded. It was like a normal day at the beach people wise.

Leia loved to run and jump in the waves.She had such a fun time. The water was freezing cold, but eventually you warmed up.

Look a Mermaid washed up on the shore.

Proof that I was at Myrtle Beach.

She is such a beach baby. She was so excited to play in the ocean.

Ethan and Leia taking a break from all the running and jumping.

One little kid came up to me and said "Do you know there are sharks in the water.My daddy told me that 21 children go in but only 18 of them come out!" I busted out laughing.This kid was like 5ish. It was so cute. But it's so true,the Jaws movie theme keep playing through my head.

We're going to be going to church and then having a BBQ at Jens house. The other day they bought a new grill so I guess we'll be testing it out with Hamburgers and hotdogs. I'm still going to attempt the potato salad. Wish me luck. Happy Easter.

pictures

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter. We don't have any plans and will probably just wing it.We're planing on going to Myrtle Beach tomorrow and then on Sunday we'll go to church.As far as an Easter dinner I don't have anything planed. I am craving ham and potato salad.To me it's not Easter if you don't have those 2 things. And maybe deviled eggs that's been dyed.We'll probably have Chicken and a version of potato salad that I can never make right.Shoot even last time I tried to make deviled eggs I botched it by putting too much sugar into the filling.I wish so much that we could be home for Easter.Sigh!!! I'm day dreaming of it now. Next year will be different. I can't wait.

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A silly picture of my 2 boys with their tongues out. We colored Easter eggs today with Jen and Ethan.I think they turned out pretty good.

Leia showing off one of her masterpiece. Jen told me their tradition of Easter eggs was they put a hole in the top and empty out the egg. Next they color them like normal. When done they fill them with confetti and put cotton on the top. Then during the activities on Easter they go and smash the eggs on each other spilling out the confetti. She said that sometimes she would fill them up with catsup and Mustard to trick people.I find their Easter tradition interesting.I told her I had never heard of this and she looked at me like I had 3 heads. She told me Wal-Mart even sells the eggs colored and filled with confetti. Am I the only one out here that has never heard of this? I'm begging, send me a comment on this. I really do find this interesting. What are some of your Easter traditions?

Jen came over the other day and we made smores.We fired up the Chimanaya and roasted them.I tried to post this earlier but my computer wasn't letting me download pictures. Hence a few boring posts.

Leia adding a few sticks .Note when throwing sticks from this distance ,it will throw out a bunch of smoky ash.Which you will taste for the next week.

Chris did the honers in roasting the marshmellows. I did learn that some people instead of using marshmellows use Peeps. Interesting.

Yummy!!! Minus the nails. I have since painted them since this picture. I was mortified.

We just got back from watching Ringo A kid movie. I have a lot of complaints on it. Too many cuss words and a half naked barbie doll upper half that was showen a lot in the movie.The TV adds make it seem that it's a funny cartoon for kids. I don't think I laughed more then once. IF that. In my head I was like Leia shouldn't be watching this. So for those of you with young ones, it isn't like Finding Nemo family orientated.The plot was good with some good moral but they had too much adult content in it for kids.

camp

www.camprockfish.org We signed Leia up for summer camp.There are some camps that are sponsoring military kids free for a week. They are accepting 3000 kids nation wide, so it's not guaranteed that she will go. It's up in NC a little over an hour from here.We will find out next month if she'll be able to go. They have all kinds of fun things for them to do and it's Christian based.She's excited about it. I think it will do her some good to be around kids her own age experiencing things that she's never done before.I don't know what I would do for that week. Probably camp outside of it hoping to catch a glimpse of her from time to time.Just kidding. But that's how protective I feel.

chickens

If you can watch the first video. I found this on You Tube and had a good laugh. Chicken Diapers so your chicken can stay inside with you. I love chickens and thought I'd share this new concept with you. Have a good laugh. I tried to find the one where they made clothes for them. One was in a dress with a bonnet, but the only dressed up ones I could find were how to cook them. Things are fine here. We are on Spring Break. We took Leia to the zoo on Sunday and might go to Myrtle Beach this Saturday. Its suppose to rain here the rest of the week, but it will be nice at MB. I hope everyone has a nice Easter.

More on the storm

What was weird about this hail was it was more flat then usual and some of them were jagged. It's the talk around here how unusual the hail was. We can't seem to have a new car that's not dinged or scratched up. I think we were meant to have old cars. Nothing ever happened to the old ones. The truck was inspected and there's about 150-200 dents in the truck.

Damage to Chris' sun visor. Damage to the dog bowls outside. They were plastic.

This is what we did while we didn't have power for 10 hours. We bowled with our church group. We assumed that the base was taking care of our problem. The bowling alley ate a man. Just kidding. He was fixing it.

Well these are my roses that I saved. They started blooming after the hail storm. I guess the hail had some rose magic dust in it.

These have just taken over. I love them. I think they're Petunias???

Chris had the truck looked at and they say the damage costs are only 3 grand. So we pay a minimum deductible to get it fixed. He takes it in tomorrow.

We also lost almost everything in our refrigerator. By the time we got ice to it everything in the fridge smelled bad. (we didn't put ice in it right away because the power company had been called, so we didn't think it was worth it)((we were wrong)) I didn't want to take chances with food poisoning so we tossed most of it. I had food poisoning before and it's no walk in the park. In fact I still can't eat at the particular restaurant.

Anyway, more on why it took them longer to fix the power. They had came out to the base, but nobody sponsored them on. So they left. Nobody in the Chain of Command didn't even know that we didn't have power. Chris had called at 9 and at 11. When we got home from bowling he called again. They were like, what we don't know anything about it. So he made a few more calls and next thing we know we have 3 electricians out fixing the problem. We all thought it was damage from the storm. Nope .we had a fried crispy squirrel. Poor guy. Anyway commissary opens up tomorrow, so I can go shopping then. Got to love that Gas station milk is $5.50 a gallon and $4.00 for eggs. UUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!! I know there are other grocery stores, but this is Sumter. You don't go out at night period.