lots and lots of Easter

So....this will probably be way too much info. about our Easter celebrations....I apologize in advance. I decided to share a couple shots of the eggs we made cause they turned out so great! We used hair elastics wrapped around the eggs to make the stripes. The speckled eggs are an old family tradition of adding a tbsp. of vegetable oil to the dye....makes for some cool lookin' eggs.

We had our own egg hunt Saturday morning at home. The kids spent the morning eating way too much candy...seriously, there were so many wrappers on the floor. We cleaned up and headed to Grandma's for the next hunt around 3:00. I made the kids take a few pics before we left...this one is my favorite!

Thanks to a lot of rain, we had our hunt in Grandma's basement. Jace was thrilled to find one of the few real eggs that had been hidden by Papa. In fact, Papa hid the eggs so well, that we spent an extra 45 minutes searching for the last real egg. Grandma didn't want to wait for the egg to reveal itself through smell, so Papa and the boys kept looking (the kids gave up and went upstairs to split up the candy stash). Papa finally remembered where it was...next year he has to make a map of where he hides those eggs, especially if we're inside again!

Easter Sunday...ohhhhh so sweet!

We postponed the famous Easter Egg Throw until Sunday evening...again, thanks to the rain (grrrrr). Three of my five kids threw their eggs right into the fence...nice. The best part was when I did the very same thing! I guess we know where they get their egg throwing skills!

It was a great weekend and the perfect way to lead into Spring Break! Yay!