Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Egg-stravaganza

One of my girlfriends put together an Easter Egg hunt with just our friends so we didn't have to deal with all the mass crowds. We met at a nearby school Saturday morning and the men took the kids to the other side of the school while the mom's hid the eggs all over the playground.  P.S. Thank you Sara, it was fun!
 The kids impatiently waiting for the OK to go
 And they're off!
 It didn't take long for them to find all the eggs we had hidden
 Gavin with his loot
 We went straight from that Easter Egg hunt to one that my niece and some other young women had put together. We were in such a hurry because we were running late that Gavin accidentally shut his thumb in the car door! He missed most of the Easter egg hunt, but at least he was OK.
 My nieces and nephews
Madi, Alex, Treysen, Maycee, Kessler, Taiya, Isaiah, Drake, Luke and Gavin
 Maycee's first Easter
 We went from the church to my Grandma's, then to a baby shower and finally to my mom's were she had an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids. These are my nieces and nephews (for now*) on my side.
Taylor, Faith, Gavin and Madisen

*Karen & Chet are expecting  baby #2  in October and Paul & Erin 
are having TWINS in August, one boy and one girl!
 This was Gavin's 3rd (and thankfully last) Easter egg hunt for the day
 He's a pro at finding eggs now
 Madisen getting some eggs of her own
 This isn't a very good picture of Taylor, but he was moving so fast it was hard to catch him
 Faith with all her eggs
 Gavin found his Easter basket from G&G in the back of G-pa's truck
 Madisen discovering what's inside the eggs....CANDY!!!
 After the hunt. G & G sure spoil them!
 Easter Dinner
Gavin mostly ate olives and rolls
 Taylor, Gavin & Faith in the Easter outfits G & G bought them
 The eggs
 Madisen coloring eggs
If you look real close you can see her sibling-to-be under the pink shirt in the background : )
 Gavin colored ALL of his eggs blue
 The little kids lost interest after a while and then the BIG kids finished the rest. We ended up coloring eggs longer than they did! I love having an excuse to color eggs and do other kid stuff!
 Karen with one of her FABULOUS eggs!
 My BEAUTIFUL sister!
 One of my eggs that turned out pretty weird
 Chet and Sponge Bob Egg Pants
 Mom heard that if you tap both ends of a boiled egg and then blow on one end the egg comes out so Cody and Chet decided to try it out. Chet got it to work, but Cody...not so much!
 Gavin playing with a lady bug he found
 My little munchkin Easter morning. He was so spoiled by G & G that the "Easter Bunny" didn't have to bring him much
 I had been planning on having an Easter egg hunt for Gavin before I found out about the other 3 we went to so Sunday before church I hid a bunch of eggs in the back yard and Batman went and found them all.
 Gavin aka Batman
Gavin and Bud


I was telling Gavin the real reason we celebrate Easter and I was trying to teach him how to say resurrection, but he kept saying "I can't say that word", then he heard it at church during sacrament meeting and repeated it and then wouldn't stop saying it. Little stinker!

2 comments:

Jessie said...

Your family looks like sooo much fun! I LOVED hiding eggs this year... almost as much as I loved finding them as a kid. Gavin looks like he'll have candy for the next year. :)

FiveFrys said...

Jessie-we ended up with a grocery bag FULL of candy, I think we are good for the next 4 years.