FLW USO Easter Egg Hunt

Today was such a fun day! We spent most of the day hanging out at our USO here helping with an Easter Egg Hunt for the Soldiers. We got there early enough to hide over 1000 eggs. We had eggs EVERYWHERE! We had about 70 prizes, all designed to be items they could either eat/enjoy on site or that they would be able to take back to the barracks with them. Most of the patrons of the USO here are still in the training environment so we didn't want to give them anything they would get in trouble for.

We had a great time and I think the Soldiers did too. We had our special friend Moo Cow with us. Moo Cow is quite popular around FLW. It's kind of funny because we borrowed this cow suit from a friend to promote a book event we did earlier this month. Since then we have just had Moo Cow make appearances around post. Last week we attended the post Easter Egg hunt and Moo Cow stole the show from the Easter Bunny (oops)!

Here I am with Moo Cow last week at the post Easter Egg Hunt...after passing around candy, he needed some sugar of his own!

This week we brought Moo Cow back to help entertain the Soldiers during the Easter Egg Hunt, he was a big hit! (You can check out the FLW USO Facebook page to see more pics from the event)

Some of our awesome volunteers!

We really had a great time! Can't wait to do it again next year!

USO Bike Run

To go with the pic I posted for the Bike run yesterday, here's a little video from it as well.

30 Days of Us - Day 9

A Photo You took..

This pic was taken yesterday at the USO Bike Run, it was awesome to see the Soldiers lined up clapping as the Freedom Riders drove through. Many...I would go as far as to say most of these bikers are Veterans, many still serving on active duty. Many are members of the Patriot Guard. It was awesome, just awesome.

#MilitaryMon, May 10, 2010

Kevin and I have started a new venture this past week. We are going to make Thursday our date night. And we are going to take date night and give back to our community, and our community happens to be Military (just in case you have missed that in the years I've been writing this blog, haha). So our date nights will be hanging out with the many Soldiers here on Fort Leonard Wood at the USO.

We look forward to helping out a great organization and spending time together doing so. We are already brainstorming ways to incorporate our boys into our volunteer work with the USO. Possibly building shelving units or sewing couch slipcovers and many more.

So don't forget, you can help out your own USO (or ours if you want). USO's are run primarily on donations. On any given Saturday or Sunday our local USO serves 1400 Soldiers!

It feels good to give back!