A little bit of this....a little bit of that

Come Easter Sunday, we will have officially been in Perth for 3 months.  We get to celebrate Jesus and our Australian anniversary that weekend.  Things have been really busy....still trying to get some things settled...like our phone from home.  I thought I had figured out how to forward our Houston number here to Perth...apparently I had not though because nobody could call....BUT we got that figured out and now you can ALL call our Houston number and reach us here in Perth.  Also I started organizing our office.  After spending a mind boggling 2 hours in IKEA, I found desks for our office. They are not our first or even second choice for office furniture, but it will work for 4 years.  The problem is that most furniture and decor here is very modern.  I still need to get a bookcase or two, but otherwise the office is now a functional space....finally! IKEA sends my mind on overload.  They have so many things with so many choices, that I have to go with a specific idea, or I wind up putting everything in my cart and then putting it all back because none of it matches.

As most of you saw on Facebook, Morgan had her swim carnival at school.  All girls in years 1 - 6 participated in everything from noodle races to actual swim events. First let me explain,  during PE at school, the girls participate in swim, and Morgan was on the swim squad after school.  It was not competition swim, but they worked on their strokes and endurance.  So I would often ask Morgan how she was doing, was she improving, was she getting faster, etc.  Her response each time would be "I am doing well", "No, I am not that fast", "There are people faster than me".  SOOOOO back to the swim carnival, I was not sure what to expect from Morgan.  I told her to do her best and that she would do great.  They had her signed up for 10 events...the first being the fun relay races and the rest her individual swims.  Morgan did AWESOME!!!  In all of her individual events, she placed FIRST. In freestyle, she literally was a person length ahead of the rest of the girls.  We were incredibly proud of her, but most important so incredibly happy to see her confidence soar.  Here are some videos...

Addie's class had an Easter Egg Hunt on Friday after school.  We all went to a local park and the kids got to hunt for 2 plastic eggs each.  They then took those eggs and traded them in for a bag of chocolate eggs.  In talking to the other mothers I found out that they do not fill plastic eggs here, they just hide the hard boiled eggs and an Easter Basket.  Also they do not color the eggs.  So I am hoping to make homemade egg dye so we can dye our eggs.  Addie had a great time finding eggs and then playing on the playground with her friends.  It was a great day =)

Addie and her friends

Dustin competed in his first 10K in Australia.  His time has improved and he did really well!  Things were pretty similar to races back home, but just not as much fan fair after the race.  Again, Australia scales most things down and focuses on the purpose of why people are gathered.  They did however have running commentary of the race for those of us that stayed behind to watch.  We were expecting Bob Costas at any moment to get into the sound booth ;)  My camera was not working so well, so I did not get too many pictures.  But here is one of Dustin and his girls....most important pic ;)

I really need to be better at blogging more often so the posts are not so long.  We are off school from April 5th until April 26th...so I will have a lot to post then!

XOXOXOX