Easter!

I can't believe Easter has come and gone so quickly!!  I was sick this year (as I was last year...  how crazy...), but Wes and the kids all went to church.  We have a tradition of doing our own egg hunt in our house, right after church.  We can't find plastic eggs here, so I decided to improvise (which seems to be the name of the game, living away from all things familiar...)  I decided to hide BLOCKS.  They each had their own color to find (since I figured Weston would grab them all first, if I let the just go at it. :) )  They each had to find 10 blocks of their color, and then they could open their "prize."  The kids really enjoyed it, and it was really Carolina's first "egg hunt."  Haha... :)

We also shared our tradition of coloring eggs with some of our closest friends.  They had seen this on the "movies" before, but had never done it.  It was so cute... they were so excited.  You can't buy food coloring here, so they were quite intrigued with the colors!   It's also hard to find white eggs, so we used brown ones... they worked fine; we just had darker colors than is normal for "Easter colors."  It worked, though!   The kids had a blast.

Marco is one of Weston's closest friends, and Inés and Jonathan are also in the same class.

This is in Toña and Antonio's second home in a quaint little pueblo outside of Cáceres.

Inés actually brought some of her eggs into school, so she could show the whole class.  It was a fun day of exchanging different cultural traditions.  We all went out to eat together, and we got to try some of the food that is typical for Easter Week here in Spain.  What a blessing this family has been to us!!