Easter Egg Hunt

I hard-boiled 36 eggs (12 for each kid) Saturday in preparation for the Easter egg hunt we had planned for the kids. We dyed them first thing Easter morning (Saturday got away from us!), got some baking started, and then I went out and hid 34 eggs (two cracked while being boiled, and although they were still edible, I didn't want them out exposed to who-knows-what if we hid them outside!).







Emily and Jared started finding eggs right away, but Connor was doing a lot of running around without a whole lot of REAL looking. They eventually found 32 eggs, but heck if we could find the last two. I went around looking everywhere I'd hidden eggs and couldn't find the remaining two either. The one I didn't actually look for myself was the one I'd hidden by the hot tub, but asked the kids if they'd found that one, and they all said "yep!". WELL, I finally wandered over there myself, and sure enough, an egg hidden there... After a good 15 minutes of searching for the final two eggs and only finding one, we gave up and were heading back inside when we noticed this: (ignore the dirty mat! I need bang it out badly!)


I'd sworn I'd hidden a blue egg on a big rock in the garden, but none of the kids claimed to have found one there, so I thought maybe I'd moved it elsewhere. Turns out our black lab moved it (into her STOMACH!).

I had the kids line up after all the eggs were found so I could take their picture, and look who's sniffing around... I think we're lucky she only ate ONE!

Easter 2012

We celebrated Easter with my family a day early, due to work conflicts and other obligations. My mom and dad had hidden Easter eggs for the grandkids to find, and we really coudln't have asked for better weather for the occasion!

Sweet Miss Eva!


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Jared


Emily Grace


The big kids were running from place to place so fast I could barely have time to focus the camera before they took off again (never did get a non-blurry one of Connor!)

We forced them to line up for a group picture


And then we let them make funny faces!




**On an unrelated note, in exactly one month my firstborn enters the world of double digits as she turns 10!!! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??? (cry!)

Visit with the Easter Bunny

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**Now there is forever documented evidence that *someone* (I refuse to claim responsibility!) tied Connor's shoes on the wrong feet in their hurry to get out the door!**

And I'm further convinced that Connor is NEVER going to fully appreciate the opportunity to sit with the Easter Bunny. He's about 2.5 seconds from shoving free and bolting in that picture. The other two were perfectly content to deal with the bunny by their 2nd Easter. This is Connor's 3rd Easter and he didn't want any part of it. I reminded him the bunny not bring him that ever-so-strongly-desired rubbery snake in his basket if he didn't sit still for a picture. So he sat still. For 5 seconds. I forgot to make SMILING part of the deal... LOL!!

Happy Easter!!

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