Bad pictures of good family portraits. Too bad our scanner is out of commission, but maybe you get the general idea. The ones of Jonas are just precious.

Ezra looks the best in the pic of the family.


In this one, Ezra is making the sign for "more". I forget what he was wanting more of.

Mike had to go on an exercise/class with some folks in his squadron. It was pretty hard core. They camped out for a week in the German forest and played war games. From Monday utnil Wednesday, he got about 3 hours of good sleep and they didn't have any showers all week. Gross! I took the kids and traveled the 9 1/2 hours down to Aviano to see friends. But before we left, I got to have some spa treatments with the girls from Bible study. Here's a pic of us at the spa.

The drive down was a dream. The kids were ablsolutely perfect. We only stopped once for gas/dinner/clothes change. The trip home wasn't quite so enjoyable, but the kids were still pretty good for being in the car for that long.







While in Italy, we went to the zoo. It was cold, windy, and a little rainy, but we made the best of it. Jonas was a happy camper. Ezra didn't enjoy it as much as I thought he would, but I think he was cold most of the time.


These are two of the castles we passed in Austria.


On the playground.



Eating birthday cake.









On Saturday, we went to visit our Romanian friends Ben and Emilia in their town, Oderzo. They fixed us a lovely, traditional Romanian meal and took us on a walk around their town. Scarlet baked me a egg free, dairy free cake for my birthday so we did the birthday thing there too. :)







Elisa and I took the kids to this spot on the river where there's a pool and a statue of Jesus is supposed to be on the bottom. You can only see it at certain times of the day when the sunlight hits the water just right, so we missed it. The kids enjoyed watching the giant fish swim around in the clear water though.



I went up to Cavasso Nuovo (the village we lived in) to visit my American friends Andrea and Shelly, and my Italian neighbors.




Ezra and Jonas loved chasing bubbles in Scarlet's yard. In once pic, they have a couple of bubbles trapped on the grass.




Here's some pics of our birthday. I say, "our" birthday because I share a bday with Susan from our Bible study group and her husband's is the day before. So we did a joint celebration with tulips out of Rachel's yard and delicious apple tart thingys.

Here is our Easter 2009 family photo. The boys were so cute in their shirts.


On Saturday night we went over to a friend's house for dinner. Which was delicious! But the real thrill of the evening was playing with their Great Dane, Bella.



She was very gentle with both of the boys (which is much more than we expected for a puppy). She got a little excited on the couch and Mike struggled to keep her from pouncing playfully.




The boys loved swinging in the hammock.



Here are a few pics from dying our Easter eggs at home.




We went to an Easter egg hunt on base. Ezra picked up a few eggs, but then he was more interested in playing on the park toys. And of course all Jonas was interested in doing was eating them.







This video is Ezra trying to name all the colors. He had already done it once, so he wasn't quite as interested.


The next two videos are of Ezra finding eggs that were "hidden" in the living room on Easter morning.