Happy Easter Sunday!

Look -- the Easter Bunny knows where Xiamen is after all! I apologize to the non-family readers of this blog entry -- it is heavy on photos of my adorable children :)

The Easter Bunny brought Chinese Barbies for the girls- Helen's is a bride with traditional and western style wedding dresses...

Aren't they so cute!!!

There are a lot of photos of Helen today because she is the one child who will actually stop and smile when I tell her to -- this photo is for her Aunt Linda who gave her this special necklace last year for Christmas...

I had bought matching sweater sets for the girls -- very cute with embroidery and little pearls on them -- then the forecast was for cold rain --so we were surprised by a tolerably nice day -- overcast but warm and pleasant for Church and some fun in the yard afterwards.

Above are the kids with our friend Oscar of Spain...

The English service was still pretty packed, even after the crowds last night ...I think Catholicism is thriving in Xiamen. We had some great music -- I tried to capture some on the video, below -- it came out just so-so...

Afterwards we decided to spoil ourselves with the Easter Brunch at The Sofitel Hotel, where we ran into many families from Thomas's school and other foreigners living in Xiamen. They had champagne and children's activities including an Easter egg hunt on the terrace...

Somehow Helen ended up with an enormous chocolate egg..which pleased her enormously...and we stayed until they closed the place down at 2:30, sipping our champagne, eating WAY too much, especially Thomas who ate 3 steaks and about 8 coffee eclairs (they were small, but 8?!?)

We survived another holiday away from family and friends in the US -- our last big one here -- and we surely do miss everyone very much!! Happy Easter to one and all!