Happy Easter!

Today is Easter, and I really should be boiling eggs for Sasha to color after his nap...but instead I'm making a blog post! 

Yesterday, we decided to go to an Easter celebration on base. It was our first time going to something like this, and Sasha had a blast!

Sasha was totally thrilled to hang out with the Easter Bunny!

The highlight of the event was an Easter egg "hunt", which wasn't a hunt at all. They just threw a ton of eggs into an open field and then the kids all scrambled like crazy to get as many as they could! They had it divided up by age group - ages 0-4 were supposed to start at noon. We got there at about 11:55, and it was already over! So I just put Sasha in with the 5-6 year old group that did their "hunt" at 12:45. Worked out very well haha!

Sasha in front of the field full of eggs!

Kids started lining up along the starting line over 30 min before the "hunt" was to begin, so we went ahead and lined up, too. It was a long, windy wait. When they finally counted down the last 5 min, the kids exploded from the starting line and the whole thing was over in about 1 minute. It was pretty intense...and didn't really look like much fun, to be honest. 

Sasha is circled in red - this was taken right as they yelled "GO!"

Besides the "hunt", they also had bouncy houses (which Sasha loved), face painting, photos with the Easter Bunny (as you saw), and free kites!

Sasha getting a batman symbol on his face!

We stayed for about an hour and a half, then went off to run some errands. One of which was getting Sasha a hair cut!! We had to wait almost 2 hours (!!!) because the place was so busy. So I went off shopping, and Regan and Sasha waited at the barber. I came back JUST as he was climbing up into the chair. Pretty good timing, huh?

Sasha actually LOVES getting hair cuts!

As I said, today is Easter! I should probably be writing this post later tonight so that I can include pictures of Easter dinner and decorating eggs, but I can just make another post later (or you can look at the pictures on facebook haha). I will include this picture of handsome Sasha, all dressed for church, just after he found his little basket this morning! 

He was so excited!!

And that's it for now! Happy Easter!! 

Freiberg Temple Trip

This past weekend, we went with the youth from our ward on a 3 day trip to Freiberg, Germany to visit the Temple and the surrounding area! Regan is still the young men's president, so he was going no matter what, but Sasha and I thought we'd tag along, too. We had a car full of young men for the 5.5 hr drive - THAT was interesting haha!

this is a pretty good representation of the drive.

We drove to hostel at the Temple and checked in, then our whole group drove into Dresden (about 40 min from the Temple) and spent the evening touring the city! Dresden is really beautiful. The weather was a little dreary, but at least it didn't rain on us! 

Sasha and I in Dresden

The next morning, we got up much too early so that we could be on the road around 7 AM - our group went to a spot near Dresden where Thomas S. Monson dedicated East Germany in 1975! One of the other leaders gave a great fireside about the dedication, but I missed a lot of it because I had to chase Sasha down the road. It was a still a really cool experience and a beautiful place!

The Brants at the place of dedication!

After that, we took the kids back to the temple so they could do baptisms and a service project. The weather was SO BEAUTIFUL (at least for the first part of the day). I wish we would have taken our family picture at the temple then, but we took it the next day when it was overcast again. Oh well. At least I got some good pictures of Sasha with a blue sky!

Sasha LOVES to see the Temple!

That evening, our group wandered around downtown Freiberg, played some ultimate frisbee (to the great curiosity of passing Germans haha), and had some pretty good Döners for dinner! The next morning, we had to be out of the hostel by 7:30 AM, so once again I was up well before I wanted to be! We had breakfast, then packed up and hit the road! After about 2.5 hrs of driving, we reached Wartburg Castle - where Martin Luther translated the New Testament. The castle was huge and the tour was really fascinating! That was one of my favorite stops on the whole trip! 

The Brants and Wartburg Castle!

After that, we drove on to Frankfurt so that some people could get chipotle for (a very late) lunch. That was pretty much it for the trip! We all had a great time! I'm glad we got to visit the Freiberg Temple before we move back to the USA.