Easter Eggs!

My girls adore egg hunts. I'm not sure if it is the hunt itself, or the candy inside. When I was a kid, there wasn't candy inside the eggs. We had a marvelous time hiding and finding eggs at Easter. Now it seems that candy is the main part of every "holiday" and the egg hunting for the sake of hunting has disappeared. Sigh. We had 2 egg hunts this year. The first was at Rylee and Delaney's preschool. They had a cute little egg hunt in their playground. I liked it. They even hid eggs in the equipment, although there were still plenty just scattered along the ground. Afterwards they had a luncheon.

Rylee was too cute! There was a 16 egg limit and convincing her to stop grabbing eggs was tough!

Delaney had a good time, but refused to look at me. She was too busy hunting eggs!

Check out their super-cute shirts! The yellow chicks are actually their footprints!

I did make them eat good stuff before cupcakes. Delaney was excited to get this one with lots of frosting and sprinkles.

There was also a base Egg hunt, and I took all 4 girls to that. It was crazy It was a hot day and there was no shade and there was lots and lots of waiting. They also had it so the kids went in one age group at a time. So Marian was totally finished before Delaney and Callie (the 5-6 group) went in. And they were all done by the time I accompanied Rylee in. The toddler group was out of control. The number of parents was probably greater than the number of kids. The eggs were just tossed in the grass on the baseball field, and with the toddler group, you couldn't even race to the end because the crush of doting moms and dads was too great. Rylee made a break outside the fence line, so that's how we got to the front! Oh, and there was no egg limit. As a matter of fact, the object was to collect the most eggs! The one with the most was the winner and golden eggs got prizes too.

It went better than I expected. There were LOTS of eggs. Marian and Callie both said they got 59 and neither was a winner. They also said it was worth it. The girls all had a good time, despite the wait and the heat. And they've been snacking on candy for the last 2 days!

They were on the far side of the field, so it was hard to get a picture. Here's Callie with her collection of eggs. They herded the kids off the field to the bleachers to count eggs. That's where they are headed here.

Delaney was a straggler, and was the very last person out of the field! She got a little lost at the end. She enjoyed herself though!

Rylee thought she was pretty funny! Fine, she was!

The first couple eggs she picked up, Rylee would shake. She didn't hear any candy rattling inside, so she threw them back down! Funny kid! I finally convinced her to keep them. She ended up with a whopping 32 eggs. Check out the press of humanity behind her.

My girls and their loot haul.