Easter

There are several problems with not posting in a timely manner; the first and most cumbersome is that you (I) can't remember exactly what happened for particular events. 

Easter celebrations actually took place over two weekends. The weekend before the actual Easter holiday, the kids had a party at school, and then the American Society held their annual Easter Egg Hunt. 

Trying to get a picture of these two - where they give you a nice smile - is hard to come by.

Cayden with two of his best friends at school!

This is the second year we have participated in the Egg Hunt. It was definitely a different experience this go round. Last year - we had to help Cayden, and Beckham could have cared less. This year, they both were ready to get some eggs!

When Easter actually rolled around, we got to spend time with one of the families in our building. The kids decorated eggs, we ate yummy food, we played some sort of egg rolling game, and the kids had an actual egg hunt (The previous weekend the eggs were just tossed on the ground. Where's the fun in that??)

Spending time with our friends was the closest we could get to a typical American Easter. We had a great time, and of course the kids were eating candy for like two weeks.

Cayden and Beckham - Video

I heard this song by Nichole Nordeman the other day, "Slow Down." Four minutes later, and basically I'm a big pile of mush, with swollen eyes, and big, ugly tears running down my face. I knew that I wanted to do a video of pictures of the boys. After four hours of finding my way out of the rabbit hole that is the pictures stored on our laptop - I had narrowed it down to 20 minutes. And it's still not enough. But is it ever? Would there ever be enough videos and pictures of Cayden and Beckham? You, me, we all want so much to capture every, everything. And for time to essentially stand still. But it doesn't. And we don't. And it all goes by too fast, and one minute Cayden is building a snowman for the first time, and the next he is "surfing" in the ocean in Brasil, and riding his bike without training wheels.  It's too much for this Mama's heart strings. If you want to watch the video - Here is the link.



Cayden and Beckham