Family Hunt

This is the first year in a LONG time that we didn't spend Easter at Nonny and Poppy's house. Since we are going there next Sunday for a trip into DC we decided not to make back to back trips.  Poor Ephram keeps saying, "I can't WAIT to see Nonny and Poppy on Easter!" because that's all he knows.

We missed Poppy hiding the eggs in the yard but had a great hunt in the neighborhood park.  I separated and filled the eggs, then Brian went ahead and hid them before we drove to join him. The kiddos didn't know where the hunt would be and assumed it would be in the backyard but we had to make it harder for the big kids:).

This year we sorted the eggs matching the kids' favorite colors so they could find the same amount and we could hide some harder than others. Ephram had Carolina blue, Cailey had turquoise, Kinsey had hot pink, and Braden had yellow. It worked out GREAT! Their eggs were filled with butterfinger eggs, other choc candy, and money." Oh..and the GOLDEN egg was found by Kinsey this year and had 4$ in it. She was so excited!

We'll definitely do this from now on. We also had all the 'special eggs' that anyone could find (these are the glittery, fun shaped, polka dots, etc...not plain eggs). All the special eggs had coupons or encouragement in them along with pistachios and craisins. The kids LOVED the papers!  There were coupons for *free breakfast out with daddy, *free pass back to 1 on the ladder, *free pass for a chore, *free pass to stay up 30 min later and read, *free pass to stay up late and play wii with daddy, *free pass to sleep in 45 min, etc. These were big hits among the oldest three... And Ephram got Panera with daddy and wii with daddy and was thrilled about those! Some of the encouraging notes were, "you are my sunshine", "you are loved more than gold", etc.  They were excited about these too and hung them up where they could be seen. 

the golden egg!

overflowing baskets! braden found so many 'special eggs' that he let the others get some of his yellow eggs.

hate we don't have a family picture! but love these:)

checking out all the loot

Out of all the hunts this one is always their favorite because there is no limit on the number of eggs they can get.  The older two have decided they don't want to do other hunts (at churches, etc.) from now on and just want to do the family hunt. Kinsey and Ephram both want to hunt as much as possible:).  We had a GREAT day of being together and doing fun things...ending with our fun family hunt then church where we heard an amazing sermon.