You may have noticed that the post before this said Easter Egg Hunt #1. There was a second hunt, but I wasn't around for it and there are no pictures. It was hosted by my mom and step-dad. Maybe they have pictures.
Anyway...this was our family egg hunt. It's the one we colored 5 dozen eggs for. We have our hunt on Saturday and save Sunday for the actual meaning of Easter. We started doing this some years ago, and I have really like the difference it has made!
Since Daniel roped us into not eating candy for a year, we didn't even bother buying any. The only eggs we hunted for were the hard boiled variety. And those are almost gone...surprisingly.
We made the kids go downstairs and "clean" while Chad hid eggs and I set out the Easter baskets. When we called them up, they came like "gang busters." So we made them freeze and let them come through, youngest to oldest. This is a shot of them "frozen."
Their Easter baskets were set out oldest to youngest...something I almost always do. Even so, there was still some confusion. Maybe we'll have to add name tags next year.
The kids always get some kind of Easter gift, but this year was a little more extravagant than usual. I think I may have mentioned Santa's pathetic sewing machine for the girls. That went into the garbage and the Easter Bunny stepped up. Since it didn't feel right to give the girls a sewing machine and the rest of the kids something like a coloring book, all the gifts were nice.
And since then, the 4 older kids have practiced threading the machine over and over. They are chomping at the bit to start actually sewing. Too bad their mother feels too overwhelmed with life to stop for 20 minutes and get them started!
After the thrill of gifts and snacks, we headed outside to hunt for eggs. What a difference a few hours makes...it was much warmer than the weather we'd had the night before!
Sarah was really getting the hang of looking for eggs.
But not so much the idea of keeping them.
Chad hid SEVERAL eggs in the pine tree branches and on the 6-ft-high fence posts. It was entertaining to watch when the kids just...couldn't...quite...reach.
And then it was time to count (and show off) because we don't want to find any rotten eggs 3 months from now!
Yes, all 62 eggs (we used 2 from the hunt the night before) were finally accounted for. They were so pretty to see on that miracle of GREEN GRASS!
This was the first Easter Egg Hunt we'd had outside since moving to this house. I'm pretty sure it was because Easter came so late in the year. We are used to seeing come late to this area.
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