Easter Egg Hunt 2011

A beautiful, sunny, Kansas windy day for our annual Easter Egg hunt. A crowd begins to form in the park.

Parents with cameras are everywhere.

I've one grandchild here that doesn't feel too big to hunt Easter Eggs. Or, she REALLY likes chocolate.

The Easter Bunny joins us at the hunt.

With all the children divided up into age groups they're walked over to the soccer field that is strewn with foil wrapped chocolate eggs.

Once they're all lined up at their designated area they're given permission to go hunt for all they can find.

Look at her go! On a bee line for the egg straight ahead.

Lot's of little eggs to be had, enough for all.

Mom and sis join her to walk back to the park.

A good hunting trip, though some appear to be a bit mushy. Maybe they all should spend some time in the freezer before attempting to unwrap them.

Another Happy Easter Egg Hunt for all!

Happy Sunny Easter Day!

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Easter Sunday was beautiful sunny day for a family gathering and Easter Egg hunt. Click on the picture below to see the 'paint' buckets that had been full of candy filled plastic eggs that the 'Easter Bunny' (older children) hid around the yard. If you look closely in the tree limbs at the top you will see that there are even eggs in the trees. The Easter basket on the top of the buckets I made that morning from a Sunny Delight jug.

Since the yard was covered by Easter eggs the little ones had to play in the house. The girls didn't mind because it was a perfect excuse to play with the Barbies and the boy had cars so they were equally entertained.
A beautiful day for grilling. Our chef is always trying out new delicious recipes on us. This day he had bell peppers stuff with a chili-cheese concoction. Mmmmm.....

Plenty of food for everyone as always.

Again, click on the picture to get a better view. The children were called out to the porch and then lined up at the bottom of the stairs and finally turned loose to hunt for eggs....

...when no more eggs were being found it was time to take a count. There were 108 eggs when they began and amazingly, 108 when they were done.

The next step was to empty all the candy out of the eggs so the bigger kids could have fun taking turns hiding them for each other.

And it was time to just have fun outside in the wonderful weather.

Hope Everyone had a Wonderful Easter with their families as well!

From Soccer Balls to Easter Eggs

It was cloudy, cold and drizzly when I woke up this morning. Didn't look good for what was on the schedule for the day. Grandson, Kmonster, had a soccer game scheduled for 1pm here. And by here, I mean if my vision were better I could probably watch the game from my front porch. His mother, my daughter, had to work today, so I am his designated cheering section for this game. I walked over to the field at 12:30 with my long, hooded, winter coat on because there is still quite a chill in the air. Just days before it had been in the 70's. At a little after 1pm the teams square up in the middle of the field.
Kmonster plays goalie again for 3/4 of the game. I guess he's the only one that wants to play this position.
Click on the picture below to get a larger view. I don't know if it will be large enough to see, he actually has "K Monster" printed on the back of his team shirt. And all of you thought it was just a cute nickname I'd given him.
Here's the Kmonster in action (below). They lost the game 2 to 1 but played a good game.

I was back home a little after 2pm which gave me time to fix some lunch and take care of a few other things before the Easter Egg Hunt at 4pm. DIL and her three showed up here around 3:30. These three, my son's children, are the only ones in town still young enough to participate. My daughter's two boys are too old, but I drafted the older one (Kmonster's older brother) to run the camcorder during the hunt. Before the hunt everyone gathers at the park and line up behind signs for designated age groups, 1-2 yrs, 3-4 yrs, etc...
The soccer field has been transformed, divided up by metal rebar and orange ribbon. The sections are covered with bright colored Easter eggs. For the two younger groups there are large plastic eggs along with the foil wrapped chocolate eggs that cover the other sections.
Below are the two younger groups lined up and ready to go grab some goodies.
My youngest granddaughter has learned to fly! Check the picture below if you don't believe me, both feet are off the ground.
The littler ones are always chased after by adults with cameras and shouting, "There's one, there's one, you missed one!"

The picture below is looking over at the older children gathering eggs. I almost got my house in the picture but only got as far as my neighbor on the left of the picture.
The littlest granddaughter has a bucket full with those big plastic eggs. She is an aggressive child so I wasn't surprised to see her bucket completely full.
The older granddaughter has quite a few of the little eggs. I'm sure that's plenty of chocolate to last her till Easter when she'll get more.
The grandson didn't do quite so well, but I'm sure his sisters will share with him.

And that was my Saturday. Tomorrow I have a birthday party to go to and I'll post more pictures.