Wordless Wednesday

 

Easter at home

Everyone loves and Easter egg hunt, so we have many of them at home.

This photo gives me a peek into her future.

 

 He's annoyed that I interrupted the fun by wanting to take his photo.

 Once again, she is always posed and ready for her photo to be taken.

 Here we are getting ready to dye eggs. We started by covering the kids in garbage bags and pulling sweet daughter's hair out of the way.

 They dropped the eggs into the dye. I did have to help take the eggs out, but everything else they did themselves.

Here are the finished products. The longer you leave them in the dye, the darker the color. With two year olds, they all end up pastel. The kids were so proud and this was way less messy than last year.

Easter Egg Hunts

Our town hosts a giant Easter egg hunt on multiple soccer fields. There is one field per group. They are divided by special needs, 0-2 years, 3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-12 years. In the center fields, they set up booths and activities. It's great to meet the people who teach classes at the rec center, try out fun games, and jump in bounce houses. In case that's not enough there are also fire trucks, ambulances, and free photos with the Easter Bunny. Almost every time we have gone we have had local politicians working the crowd as well.

 The kids are lined up waiting to start on the 0-2 field. While the other fields have eggs on them, this one is kept simpler with packages of food just spread out. 

 

 I like that they make a point of having age appropriate food on this field. My kids love Cheerios and animal crackers while running past the sugar eggs.

Full baskets means we are done! As you can see, there's still candy spread around the field when most people are done. No one takes more than they can carry and if someone has an almost empty basket, strangers will point out where they can find more. This is a great community event and is handled really well for something so huge. I'm already looking forward to next year. On the other fields there are eggs hidden with credits you can use at the rec center for free classes, swimming, etc.

 Here is our official photo with the Eater bunnies. They sent us the digital photo for free. This is sponsored by a local real estate office. It was really hot outside and my kids just wanted to go home, so I'm lucky we even got this.


After an egg hunt at school, the kids were sent home with unopened plastic eggs. Sweet Son opened one and exclaimed, "There's no egg yolk or egg white in here!" I guess he really does pay attention when he's helping me cook. Too bad I have the only kids who would have preferred an actual egg to candy. haha I will say the majority of the eggs from the kids school didn't have candy. We got a lot of stickers, tattoos, chalk, rings, bubbles, and a few other random items.

Bluebonnets - the bad

Yesterday, I posted the best photos from our bluebonnet field. Today, you see the more realistic shots. We start with an easy instruction - everyone look at the camera and smile.

The camera. Look at the camera. See, I'm behind the camera jumping up and down to get your attention.

Ok, we'll make this fast. Please look at the camera.

I see your arms are folded and you are both giving me that look. Can you try to smile? Just once? 

Looks like we are done here.