Easter & Egg Hunts

The past week has been full of egg hunts and Easter festivities. Anna and Cole both had egg hunts at school. They each decorated an egg carton. Anna's was covered in glitter, Cole's was painted in red, green, blue and black. Both had a blast finding eggs to fill the carton. Anna was looking for the pretty eggs while Cole was picking each egg up, shaking it and keeping it if he liked the sound.

Cole's face in this picture is so funny. He was so excited to be finding eggs.

Tuesday was Anna's day to bring birthday snack to school. We brought rainbow cupcakes.

On Friday we had big plans to go see the Easter Bunny at the mall. Thousands of others had the same plan. I don't know why I waited until Friday because the kids are home during the day all the time but for whatever reason I forgot about it until Friday. The kids and I along with Nikki and her kids set out to get that sought after picture only to be shut down. The line was so long they shut it down at 11:00 (it opened at 10:00). We were told to come back at 2:00. We got there at 1:15 laughing the whole way in thinking "we're going to be the first in line!!" Not even close. There were probably 20 people in line before us. Holy Friday! (literally). There was no way we were standing there for that long with 4 kids. SO we decided to leave and go to an egg hunt at one of our local churches. We get there and you have to attend the church service before hand. No big deal but total not where I thought I would be when I left the house at 10:30 that morning. We sat reverently and patiently. Then we went out to hunt for a whopping 6 eggs! Yep, that's right we were told each kid could have 6 eggs. After everyone got their 6 the church staff let the kids fill the baskets with all the left over eggs. So not a total bust. The kids had fun. Nikki and I could only laugh at ourselves as we carted 4 kids all over town in search of seeing the Easter Bunny.

The only Easter Bunny we got a picture with.

Easter Sunday the kids woke up to find the loot EB left them. They each got an outfit and various games or toys.

Anna was so excited to get more bunnies for her bunny rabbit cabinet.

Cole fell asleep at 6:00 the night before so we thought he's be up at 6:00 am to see what he got. Instead we had to drag him out of bed. He kept telling us it was too bright.

EB brought him a Transformer mask.

The kids hunted for eggs in the front yard and in the house.

She was so proud of the eggs she found.

We attempted to get a family picture.

After church we headed west to Columbus to celebrate with the Glueck's. We do this just about every year. The kids love it. They always load up in the truck and go search for the Easter Bunny while the adults hide the eggs. When they come back they sit for the annual picture then mass chaos begins and they sprint for eggs.

My sweet boy forgot his Easter basket. "What kind of mother let's her kid forget his Easter basket for the family egg hunt" you ask. The kind who gave the kid only one responsibility. Oh well at least he's cute enough to make up for carrying a Target bag to hunt eggs.

The annual photo