We had a busy 2 days last weekend, celebrating the holiday and developing our family traditions. Here are some photos to show you about it. On Saturday we went to a local shopping center where they had an Easter bunny walking around and free face painting.

Then later that night we did our egg dying/painting (of the beautiful brown eggs here in Europe). And Elena helped me decorate bunny cupcakes.

Here are the little dolls in their Easter dresses (very hard to get Elise to stand still!).

After church we went to lunch at our friends’ house where the girls got to hunt for the eggs we dyed. What fun!

Then today we conducted our own little egg hunt in the backyard garden of our building with plastic eggs my mom sent from America (filled with candy). The girls were thrilled to stuff their faces with m&m’s afterwards.

Today Scott caught Elena picking, and when he asked her if she needed him to “help” her she said…

“I learned to get boogers out myself. I learned it from the Bible.” 

Scott said, “Oh really. What does the Bible tell you to do?”
 

” It says to get a napkin, stick it right inside the nose and then try to pull it out. That’s what is says and I can do it myself.”

Kids are so entertaining.

Okay, so I have not demonstrated much success in regular blogging since Scott initiated the family blog 2 years ago. And now he wants me to have my own site!! I am gonna try to be more regular (should eat more fiber?).  But at the moment Elise is screaming “Mommy, mommy” at my leg because she has had acid poopies and a diaper rash and simultaneously wants and doesn’t want her diaper to be changed (sorry if that is tmi).  Elena has been saying all morning that she doesn’t feel well and has puffy red eyes and pink cheeks. Besides these customary demands, I’ve got a household to begin packing, a broken dishwasher, a landlord to inform of our upcoming evacuation, moving companies to contact for shipment quotes (these will all have to take place in second language), and tons of praying to do about our future. I’m not complaining. The truth is the Friderich family has quite a bit of experience with major change and I think I enjoy a little bit of chaos.  Just anticipating that blogging very often may be a challenge.

Saw Walk the Line last night.  Excellent movie.  You all probably already know that, since I think it may already be available on DVD in the US.  But it is just now playing in theatres here.  I was inspired by the portrayal of June Carter’s character to be the kind of partner/wife who is exceedingly supportive and loving even in the midst of trial. And Reese Witherspoon was fantastic.  Also a fan of Joaquin Phoenix.  Made me want to learn more about Cash’s real life.