First Egg Hunt Of The Season

I say "first" since Gracie has one at her school, and Thomas loved the hunting part so much I may just toss more out in the yard and let him have at it!

First, please allow me to show off my "mommy sticker" for getting out there and doing something I have never done in the community that I am attempting to tolerate.

Now that we got that out of the way...


It was way chillier than I was expecting this morning. Not that it was super cold, but it was too cold for the kids to show off their matching Easter Egg Hunting Outfits.

Yep, I stayed up last night making a dress for Gracie and a vest and bow tie for Thomas, all from the same fabric.

And let me tell you they looked super cute. Well, they did before we had to zip them up in jackets.

As for the hunt, it was too long for the toddler to wait. But, he managed to amuse himself. They had several activities on hand like the Chick-Fil-A cow (which he hugged!!!!) and games and candy sand art and coloring and the Easter Bunny.

Thomas won a small stuffed Chick-Fil-A cow at the game both, Gracie won a free brownie coupon from the restaurant. They both made the candy sand art, but after that we just attempted to wait patently. I would have had the take a picture with the Easter Bunny, but the line was super duper long and they actually had to make people walk away so the bunny could come out for the hunt.

The bunny and the cow led the kids in some dances, and then volunteers thew out tons of eggs all over the roped in field.

I was so thankful that they divided up the egg hunt in to ages (Gracie wasn't since she had to wait until the end to go). The first "heat" was for the 2 and under and Thomas had to get some coaxing from daddy to go under the rope and start picking up eggs. But, once he was out there he was running and picking them up and loving it. He loved it so much in fact that when all the eggs were gone and the kids and parents were headed back out of the roped area, Thomas tossed his in the grass so he could do it again!

Gracie "helped" Thomas open his eggs and laid claim to all of the rings he got. He really didn't care about what was inside, and while I appreciated that volunteers filled these eggs with treats for a FREE egg hunt--I am thinking they didn't have a mom with a young child on the treat committee. There were a few larger items, but things like the rings were very much a choking hazard. But, as I said, he didn't care and he was ready to go home. So, daddy took him to the playground while Gracie and I waited for her age group.

You would have thought it was a year long wait, but finally the 3 & 4 year olds had their hunt, more eggs were tossed out, the 5&6 year old had their hunt, more eggs were tossed out, and they counted down for Gracie's age group.

She may have had to go last, but there were significantly fewer 7 & 8 year old so she racked up. And, as you can imagine their hunt was the shortest time wise since those bigger kids were far more agile--and greedy ;)

Gracie came away with fun erasers and candy in her eggs--and explicit instructions to keep them away from brother bears mouth.

The whole even couldn't have been more than 1 hour and we piled in the car to defrost. On the way home we stopped for some hot fries as a nice treat.

It was a fun family morning egg hunting--even if no one saw my kids in their festive outfits.

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