Every Easter there is an egg hunt! Of course there is. As we went to my mother in laws this year, she had the honor of it being at her house. She has a big yard with a beautiful garden. Normally, the children are forbidden to be in the garden. I fear raking leaves in the pachisandra sp. June brought 72 eggs (12 for each child, color coded) and one golden egg containing $5. I supplied 2 dozen prefilled eggs that I picked up last year for a quarter a dozen. Sweet deal! So now we have 97 eggs hidden amongs the trucks, garden and boats throughout their yard. I have to say, it's hard to find space for all those eggs.
Cameron, Linda, Shawna, Shannon & Keara
We hid the eggs around 12:30 when we got home from church. Poor Cameron was the only kid at the gathering until around 3:30. So what do you think a solo child would do? He roamed the yard! He found the golden egg and kept it to himself. Once dinner was over, the kids made a beeline for the yard and their eggs. Cameron did not quite understand the concept of: Cameron, green eggs, Keara, pink eggs, etc. He found 3 eggs that weren't his and was forced to hand them over :<. Then onto the golden egg. Of course, it was determined that he had an unfair advantage so Glenn let him keep the $5 and refilled to be hidden again anonymously. Meaning that the adults would pass it around quietly until the kids were so confused about who held it and then it would be hidden. Uncle Jim was the final holder. He hid it and then after dessert, the kids went back out to find it. Cameron was allowed to participate as it would be a fair hunt this time. The clues were given...down low with a view in the side yard. Uncle Ernie took that to mean that it was hidden low in plain sight, yeah right! Keara, with her broken arm used a broomstick to flip through those leaves leftover at the edge of the fence and in the basement window wells. I truly believed it was in the window wells and persuaded her to dig deep in there. I helped for about a half hour then we had to get home to Milo who had been alone in the house since 9:30 when we left for church. It was 7:00 p.m. by now. The kids were still looking when we left.
Cameron and Glenn went to the baseball game on Monday then I met Alan, Wilma, George, Cameron and Glenn for dinner before we went to AAA to buy a car and sell a car (they bought a car from Tony's FIL, we sold the Lincoln). At dinner I asked about the egg. It was in the well, under a rock. No way would we ever put our hands in those leaves to move a rock. Good hiding bunny Jim!
Cameron at the Pirates home opener
Score 7-0, PIRATES WIN!!!!!
There ended up being 4 cakes and 2 peanut butter pies for dessert. Can we say sugar overload. So we were able to bring some of the bunny cake home. Jerry's girls made a chocolate bunny cake that was very cute also. I did not get a picture though.
The bunny cake I baked and Glenn decorated
Today was back to school. Cameron and I agree that we miss Spring Breaks in Florida where you usually got a week off of school. Cameron did return to find that his English teacher was at the hospital to have her baby so he had a new English teacher. We knew it was coming, just not today. She anticipated late March or early April so I guess the baby was late.
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