The Easter Trifecta

We went to three Easter egg hunts over the weekend. The first one was a HUGE egg hunt at a HUGE church in Greg and Marianne's neighborhood. There were hundreds of people (and probably thousands of eggs) there. Marianne and I had to keep telling the boys to pick up eggs because they'd pick one up, and then want to open it, and then want to eat the candy...slowly. Meanwhile everybody and their brother were gathering up the eggs at lightning speed. We're pretty sure they were doing their Easter shopping there.

Henry's checking out his loot.

"Can I be done now, Mom?" (Check out the lady in the background with the FULL shopping bag of eggs. Now she won't have to go to Target on her way home)The boys taking their sweet time.Nathan is happy with his egg.Henry is scrutinizing the candy. "Sixlets? Are you serious?""All right, I guess I'll eat it if I have to..."Back at Greg and Marianne's house.After Egg Hunt #1, we went out to lunch. Then Henry and I went on to Egg Hunt #2 at his daycare. By that time he had the hang of the egg hunting.

"Do I see an egg in there?"

"Yes! Here it is!"

Having fun! We should do this every weekend! Henry was pretty excited to find his Easter baskets waiting for him on Sunday morning.He got lots of Mickey Mouse stuff and plastic eggs full of colorful rocks (which he loved) and eggs full of candy (which he wasn't terribly excited about).The Easter Bunny brought him some cool glasses!On Sunday afternoon we headed out to my dad's house for egg hunt #3. We took all of the candy-filled eggs that we had collected so far and re-hid them for this hunt. We came with 60 eggs and left with 8. That was a good thing!

All dressed up in his Daddy look-alike outfit, and headed out to the back yard for the hunt.

After finding one egg, he had to stop to eat the jelly beans out of it.The three youngest cousins had their own separate egg hunt on the tennis court while the older cousins found their eggs on the grass. Henry (saying "CHEESE!") with Oliver and Nathan.

We managed to time our egg hunt perfectly between rain and more rain. Henry wanted to stay outside, but the downpour began.I think it's impossible to get a good family picture these days. Believe it or not, this was the best one.O.K. The picture overload is over. Happy Easter!