Celebrating Easter

It is a familiy tradition with my mom's extended family to have a huge easter egg hunt every year. My great aunts fill an unreal amount of plastic eggs with candy, money, balloons, small trinkets, etc and the "kids" hunt until their arms are aching from the weight of the eggs they are carrying. There are also the requisite boiled eggs but it is not unusual for the kids to pass those up in favor of the "good stuff".

Easter 2007 was no exception. The weather was unusually chilly but that did not stop our hunt. This year we had a whopping 1200 (yes, that is one thousand two hundred)eggs to hide and hunt. Our cousin who hosted the hunt had mowed the yard this week so it was more of drop and pick up than a hide and hunt. And of course there are the "big kids" who still love to get out the field and gather eggs as well.

Here are some pictures from our day:
My aunt Kathy and her husband Bill trying to keep warm!!

This picture does not do justice to the scene.
Hopefully you can enlarge this picture and get an idea of all the eggs (or dots of color) on the ground!!

My grandpa stayed all bundled up to keep warm in the 40 degree weather.

Robyn and Paul - our official easter portrait.

My "big kid" with his egg haul:
no easter basket would do he had to use the ever sturdy Wal-Mart sack.

After the hunt (while still on a sugar high) we went to Paul's parents and had dinner and a good visit with them and Grammy and Daddy Sonny.

Hopefully we will have our own little "egg hunter" next year!!