More Egg Hunts

As you will remember from several posts ago, we attended our first egg hunt of the season earlier this month at the park near my parent's house. Well, this weekend we had three more opportunities to hunt egges. Scott is definintely an expert on egg hunting. Andrew, however, still is in the "find an egg, open it, eat the candy, then set off and search for another egg" mode. It is so funny to watch him "hunt." It certainly didn't take him long to figure out that they held candy.

The first hunt we went to was a last-minute addition. I read about it in the paper. Called "Athens Egg Drop," the big highlight was that a helicopter came in and dropped the eggs onto the field just before the kids were released to pick them up. Since we are into just about anything that moves via a motor and diesel fuel, I thought it would be great fun to take the boys and see this. Derrick opted to stay home and work on my retaining wall that we are building next to our driveway. (My wall, because I designed and "commissioned" it...not because I've done any work on it.)

So, my mom and I set off for a bigger adventure than we bargained for. There were 2,000 people allowed in and at least 1,000 more that were turned away. Our kids did enjoy the moon walk and getting their faces painted and, of course, the helicopter was the highlight. The egg hunt was so crowded that we only picked up a few eggs. That was OK, since that wasn't the reason we came. Below are some pictures:






After short naps, we set off again on Saturday to hunt for more eggs. This time, our destination was the hunt sponsored by our church. The whole family went, including Nana and Pop. This was much more enjoyable, since it was smaller and we knew almost everyone there. Scott really enjoyed riding the horse. We also gave Andrew the opportunity to ride with Derrick and got one picture before he burst into tears. As you can see, the horse was quite tall - 2,500 pounds. I particularly loved the huge dog who seemed to be best friends with the horse.

This is a great picture of Andrew, hunting the way he loves to hunt. You can see that his mouth is full of some yummy candy and he is picking up his second egg to see what is inside. Below is Scott working hard to fill his entire bucket.

Our third egg hunt of the weekend was after enjoying a delicious Easter lunch at Uncle Geoffrey and Aunt Jill's house. Geoffrey "hid" the eggs outside and the kids had a ball finding them. There were plenty to go around. I think Scott added $1.50 to his piggy bank after this hunt! It was definitely the most profitable. :) I'll post pictures of that with my Easter morning pictures.