Happy Easter!

I saw this picture on Stephanie's beautiful blog, Silly Precious Piggies, and had to borrow it.  I sure hope she doesn't mind.  It is just so appropriate and keeps us mindful of the reason we celebrated today...Jesus!  He is Risen!

After spending the morning receiving some much-needed spiritual nourishment, we went to my boss' house for Easter dinner.  I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but my boss and I go back a few years to the days that we were stationed at Fort Bragg.  I had become one of his company commanders back in 2006.  Anyway, when I made the promotion list to Major last year, he found me while I was stationed at Fort Bliss and asked if I wanted to come to Germany to work for him.  Umm...go to Germany?  No-brainer.  So, since we've been here, he and his wife have been more than gracious to us.  Knowing how hard it is to be away from loved ones on special occasions like this (as they have three daughters who all live on their own now), they invited us and a few other friends over for dinner.

Talk about great times.  Not only was the company wonderful, but so was the food!  There was so much, including a most wonderful carrot cake that I'm hoping I'll have the recipe to soon.  Not sure if they'd read yesterday's post, but they made sure they had more than enough eggs for Sina to play with and had a cute little Easter basket for her.  Either way, it was really sweet of them and she had a field day with the eggs as well as the attention--she was the only kiddo there :)

Banging her eggs together.

Dig, dig, dig...and yup, another bad hair day.

They even let all of us dye eggs just for nostalgia's sake.  I tell you, I can't remember the last time I dyed eggs and I was surprised to find out that it was the first time Malu had actually dyed an egg.  He said he'd drawn on some before, just never dyed one.  Guess you learn something new everyday, huh?  So, Sina got a lesson on dyeing eggs too...only after she decided to stop trying to eat them.

These eggs are yummy!

First egg-dyeing eggs-perience!

It was truly a great day of fellowship and fun.  And we could not have asked for better weather too.  We sat out on the porch and enjoyed Spring at its best...birds, flowers, trees, a beautiful breeze..even the pollen!

My loves.

As always, thanks to the Godfrey's for being fantastic hosts and for always making us feel like family.

Well, I hope that everyone had a very blessed Easter too.  I also hope that our families back home know just how much they were missed today.  We love you.

Have a great week everyone!