Easter with Friends

We had so much success with the Valentine's Day party that we decided to have another tri-ward playgroup event... an Easter Egg Hunt!  It was much less work (thankfully), and we just played outside with bubbles and sidewalk chalk, had a little Easter parade, then the egg hunt and picnic.  It turned out to be a beautiful day and the kids and moms had a lot of fun!

Violet and Alan in their bunny ears.

We had each egg-hunting child bring a dozen filled eggs.  I'd guess there were between five and six hundred eggs in that basket.   And then we got to hide them. :) 

We let the youngest kids go first, and Alan got to lead the way for his group.

James loved it too, even though he wasn't an official participant. 

Towards the beginning Alan picked up an egg and he shook it and it didn't seem like there was anything in it.  So he opened it and saw it had a sticker.  He put it back.  And he shook and listened to each egg that he picked up after that, and only took the ones which sounded like a ample supply of candy.  No dummy. :) Needless to say we ended up with a lot of jelly beans.

James on the hunt again.

And of course James was very interested in seeing all of Alan's fares

I had to take Alan's basket away before he downed the whole bucket before lunch.

Then we spread out our blankets and had a fun picnic

The whole thing tuckered little Jamesy right out

And what's better than playing with snakes

and climbing trees?  It was a very fun morning!

The next day we went with some more friends to the Palkki's house to dye Easter eggs together.

The kids loved it and we ended up with a good many beautiful eggs!

It was so fun to celebrate Easter with our friends!  We will sure miss them when we move, but thankfully we won't be too far, and will be able to come back for future parties. :)