Egg Hunts

The children participated in two egg hunts today. First they hunted eggs at home. The Easter Bunny visits our home the day before Easter, therefore the eggs were waiting to be found when the children got up. Bentley got up early and went Lego shopping with opa without noticing that the Easter Bunny had visited during the night. He maintains that the Easter Bunny came while he was out shopping with opa! (Would he have gone shopping with opa if he'd realized there were eggs to be found?)

At 10AM when Bentley got back home and discovered the Easter baskets on the table, he woke up the twins. They got dressed and raced downstairs. We told the trio they had to help Lincoln find ten eggs before they started collecting their own eggs. Lincoln was a master egg hunter and didn't need any assistance. We let him go into a new room before the older children, but he could probably keep up with them without any handi-cap.

We had another Easter egg hunt to attend at 11AM. Crazy, huh? It was a chili feed and egg hunt that Kara's friend Carmen organizes every year. We went a little late because we figured the children wouldn't eat much. Bentley had water and a brownie with the frosting scraped off. Lincoln spit out broccoli and olives with dressing on them and then poured an entire cup of water on himself. Since the egg hunt was outside in the snow banks, Kara had to borrow clothes from her friends who were better prepared than she and had extra clothes for their little ones with them. Lincoln had his snow pants and coat that were still dry, but he needed some clothes under his snow gear. It's pretty cold outside still.

The under 4 crowd go with the parents and scoop eggs off the ice in the parking lot. 

The children 4+ race for the snow banks on the far side of the parking lot. 

Viva doesn't like to race, so she brought up the tail end of the group. 

Jake and Bentley scaled the tall snow banks. 

Bentley found fewer than Jake because he only wanted to collect well hidden eggs.

The children will have yet another egg hunt with Grandma Karen and Grandpa Tim at their house tomorrow. And then they will do their own eggs hunts downstairs for weeks to come until we confiscate all the eggs and put them away until next Easter.