The Annual Easter Hunt

Easter has come and gone but the memories of the Grand Easter Egg hunt at Grandma's will live on! 

This tradition began because I wanted to make sure that all of my grandkids had a fun experience when they went hunting for Easter Eggs.   My plan - make it fun and get a lot of candy!

I started stuffing the plastic eggs that I have collected over the years (+600 of them) about a week and a half before the big day.  I started early because I wanted to make sure that my grandkids out of state got some Easter Egg stash.  After Bill and UPS got three packages of special eggs safely sent away, I could then focus on finishing my Easter Bunny task.  Friday night before the big day, Katie and Alec acted as helpers and we worked on stuffing plastic eggs well into the night. I was lucky for their help! They worked so hard they could hardly keep their eyes open at the end of the evening. (We actually ran out of candy a couple of times so thanks for a Fresh Market just down the street.

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Saturday - the big day...Everyone gathered at noon for lunch and the hunt preperations and the kids were excited as they could be.  We decided to eat first so maybe the kids could get something healthly in them before they were inundated with candy.  They were more excited than i thought and their thought of a good lunch was a potato chip and then to save room for candy.  I love their thinking.  While the kids were attempting to eat, my boys, Ed. Dan, Andy, Mark and Eric took the 540 special eggs and did a wonderful job of making the Easter Hunt fun, exciting, fair,good enough for the big kids and awesome enough for the little onesl  All the hard work was coming toghetherfor the best hunt ever!  Rules were given out...Little kids 6 and under search in the front yard and Big kids 6 1/2 years and older to search the back yard.  Each kid was to get 39 eggs and a bonus of 4 large eggs.  Ready, Set, GO!!!  Kids race out the back door and out the front door and are now scrambling through the yard looking in every nook and cranny, on the ledges and in the grass, and in the flower beds. 

What a great day!!