Egg Toss

My Aunt Sam loves Easter. It's one of her favorite holidays. She divides the kids up into two groups - including the biggest kids in college, and high school. They have to take a spoon with an egg in it and go touch my Aunt Becky, and go back to the next person in line. The process continues. If they drop their egg, they get another egg, but it slows them down. Whichever group is done first wins.

That's not the only game played. Our generation has to throw an egg back and forth to our husband. After each throw we have to take a step back. If someone's spouse isn't there a high schooler steps in. 

I got hit hard. Travis' nail hit it, and I caught it, but it broke in my hands. Talk about a mess! I even had egg in my hair. Yuck!

The kids have an egg hunt. It's mostly eggs filled with money, and random prizes. Some I've donated in the past with blog winnings.

Run Mica run!

Isaak runs from the camera. That kid only poses for pictures on his terms these days.

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Daddy, while the Easter egg hunt was going on. Can you tell he's not a morning person?

Just one shot during the hustle and bustle of the Easter egg hunt. Isaak's hair looks like that EVERY SINGLE MORNING!

Isaak didn't want his picture taken. Is it bad that I think this is funny?

My little bucket head! I'm such a proud Momma!

An egg hunt at my aunt's house. The boys are with their cousins and my cousin's kids. I did get permission from the other parents to post. All are between 4 and 7. In order: Cousins Evan and Elijah, my own Mica, Cousins kid's Colton and Kensley and my own Isaak. It's funny to me that the other kids are with their siblings. Mine are spread out. I don't think they liked each other that day. Isaak was super excited for the hunt! Can you tell?

 Me: "Isaak let me take your picture." Isaak: "Sure! Right after I put a pinwheel in my face." Still I love this shot!

Isaak viewing pictures with Aunt Terra AKA my sister.

What photo was Isaak looking at? A photo of his Cousin Emerson getting an egg out of a tree.

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Easter

I'm saving all my good photos for my WW. Come back here on Tuesday night if you want to see them.

A few weeks ago I had Isaak and Mica's pictures taken with their fancy Easter duds on.

I'm not too crazy about the dark shadows below their hats in the next one. The boys like the next one the best though.

 Here's Isaak at the mall.

How was Easter for you? It was good on our end. 

I go a little overboard with holidays. The Easter Bunny I have a scavenger hunt every year. I was smart and had my station downstairs this year. Laundry was done, while I stuffed eggs. Daddy was in the kitchen, so no one would have a chance of seeing me. I hid eggs in their closets, while it was still awake time. The boys were outside playing; when I did that. Each hiding area had one main egg with a clue to the next hiding area and a dollar coin for each kid. The clues don't give them a direct answer as to where to go next. They have to think.

One year I did, "Rub a dub, dub 6 eggs are hiding in the __________." Then they have to figure out it was the tub, go find the eggs and get the next clue.

This year I decided to get a little harder. I had one that said, "I like to hop down the __________. Go find 8 yellow eggs." Well they put on their shoes and went outside to go look on the hill in the backyard. It was down the steps inside. That's ok, they got their exercise. They finally figured it out. They love the hunts. It does take some thinking on my part though. I kind of have to do a lot of it on the spot because otherwise even I get confused as to how many eggs I was supposed to be put here or there.

This year I hid less candy. Other eggs had mini erasers that were truck shaped in them; that I found at the dollar store. Isaak was really excited about them! Then the dollar coins were special to. I found blue stuffed bunnies for a dollar each at the dollar store to. Mica's asked for a blue bunny to match his blue bunny he got from preschool. I don't know why he wanted it. He's not a stuffed animal kid, but that's always been his favorite. He was very clear that it had to be a blue, boy bunny. Try finding that! They got 2 movies, an outfit and 2 DS games I got for a major deal at Christmas time.

The boys got to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which they got from the Easter bunny. It's not my pick of a movie, but I knew they would love it! Daddy finally came to life (he's not a morning person at all!); he talked to Mica about the artists the turtles were named after.

While they were watching their movie, I made the veggie tray for my aunt's house. It was 4 sections that looked like this:

Mini Sweet peppers flowers with cheese stamens and celery grass.

 Radish flowers with celery grass.

Mini carrots and cheese carrots; I cut out with a cookie cutter. More celery grass.

I made beer bread to.

Then we headed off to my Aunt Sam's house. There, we had a big meal, another egg hunt for the kids and an egg toss for the middle generation (which would be me!) I dropped the egg many times and it never broke. I caught the egg and it broke all over me. YUCK! I think my aunt should have given me warning that, that was to take place. I would have brought a change of clothes!

Here's my bucket head son!

By the end of it all the boys were tired and whiny. Isaak tried running from me when it was time to leave. He cried about having wrinkly hands in the bath again. This time he was like, "What's going to happen to me now Mom? Tell me!" Me saying, "Nothing." didn't fix his issue. He cried harder.

Mica begged to watch Madagascar 3. I kept saying, "No. If you are going to keep whining about wanting to watch that, you will go directly to bed." It was 6:30. He said, "Mom I'm not whining!" Then he said, "Ok if I stop whining can I watch it?" Total contradiction there! Mica also tried to argue with me about how we never ate lunch. We had a huge meal at my aunt's house! Then when we got home we had veggies, crackers and cheese for dinner. Somehow he forgot about all that.

Bedtime was at 7:30 last night.

Easter With the Extended Family

I wish I would have taken photos of the cheese/veggie tray I made! I spent awhile on it. It was cute. Oh well. Maybe I'll make the same thing next year.

The boys were bouncing off the walls all morning. They just couldn't wait to get over to Great Aunt Sam's house! I wouldn't let them eat very much candy. Mica's tummy hurt the night before. They already had coffee cake, which was loaded with sugar as well.

I knew there would be a hunt at Great Aunt Sam's house as well.

 Isaak wouldn't look up for a second!

Here's cousin Emerson during the hunt. He didn't hunt much. He just sat there and looked cool in the sunglasses I reviewed.

Aunt Terra helped the boys dye eggs.

We were explaining to Great Aunt Marsha that Isaak gives looks! Look that the photo above. Perfect example of one of Isaak's looks!

The boys got these planes from their hunt. They wouldn't fly well, but they kept trying and carried them around all over. Later on they got taken away by Daddy. Isaak and Mica were fighting with them like they were swords. BOYS!

Mica lost his 2nd front tooth on Friday. I sang a few times, "All I want for Easter is my two front teeth..."

Easter

We have our own hunt. Isaak wanted to grab random eggs he saw. Mica knew there were rules attached. A hunt that makes them think. If you want to read about how we were caught go here.

On the coffee table were:

• A few special eggs.
• Spanish DVDs from Boca Beth. I won one on Facebook and it took her 1 week to get back to me, so she sent me another DVD. :) Mica has no foreign language at his elementary level. I wanted to get something to help with a language. They say they learn that stuff best when they are little. I'll be reviewing the DVDs on here.
• Melissa and Doug garden tools I got for posting their ad at Christmas time. Two trowels, two cultivators and a rake they have to share.

So the hunt was on. This is what they do when I tell them to hold their baskets up. HA HA!

The boys had clues that lead them all over the house and on the front porch. Then the last thing they got were these cute ukeleles that were not that much money. Now if they get lessons they will be a lot of money. We'll see. Mica's came with a book on how to play. We'll kind of play it by ear before we decide about lessons.

There was candy, but I only let them have a few. Mica's tummy hurt the night before.