Wandering Browns

The backyard, pre-hunt When Easter time rolled around this year, I knew I wanted to take Landon to a proper Easter egg hunt because with all our traveling, he had never had this experience. Two years ago, we were in India, and last year, we were in a hotel in Brussels, Belgium for Easter. As I thought more about the atmosphere and frenzy of community egg hunts, I wanted to avoid that, but still give Landon an egg hunt experience. While in the shower one morning after a particularly rough night with Owen, I had the brilliant idea of hosting a hunt at our house. At first, I thought perhaps we should only invite those who didn’t have family in the area with which to do their own hunt, but I ended up inviting Landon’s whole Sunbeam class, which ended up being 8 classmates and their families! Everyone came and it was great to get the families of his classmates together. Although it was a lot of work, it was worth it. Release of the hunters! We were so lucky/blessed that it was a...

Brussels approach Approaching the bustling metropolis of Brussels, we turned onto this road and a GIANT cathedral came into view. It was smack dab in the middle of the road and so imposing. Turns out, it is one of the biggest cathedrals in the world! The road curved around the cathedral and down into a tunnel that kept diving further down in the earth. We thought we would never come back out. Eventually we did, and everyone rejoiced! We also missed a whole lot of traffic as we drove underneath the city.  National Basilica of the Sacred Heart Soon, we were at our hotel, right in the heart of Brussels. We stayed at the Marriott Grand Place. We appreciated the Marriott beds and the lounge had guacamole, which made me happy! We rested up from our day in Ghent and watched the first session of General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We heard messages on how to be better people and follow our Savior, Jesus Christ. It was a great start to our tim...

Landon with his basket. I think he was excited!  Easter is not a huge holiday here in India. Although there are Christians, and a Catholic school and church in Jamnagar, there was no Easter candy or baskets or really anything that indicated that there was any major holiday going down in the Reliance mart. Most of the people here are Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Sikh, etc. Not celebrating Christ's resurrection at any rate. So, Easter was a little different for us this year.  Silk top and leggings from Reliance mart Another bandhi outfit- this one has the white dots at the bottom of the pants only, as well as the design on the shirt, which is made of linen vs. silk Enjoying his new bus coloring the egg The final result Easter morning, I did a special Easter nursery lesson with Landon prior to Austin getting home. We sang Easter songs and learned about how Jesus was resurrected. We waited for Austin to get home for awhile, went to breakfast, stole a har...