Running from the Law: Hoppy Easter

Monday, March 28, 2016

Hoppy Easter

Easter came and went in the blink of an eye. With it being so early this year, I felt rather unprepared and was scrambling last minute to find all the baskets and eggs in storage in the basement. I did however, manage to stock up on Cadbury cream eggs and Reese's peanut butter eggs...priorities. The kids were thrilled to wake up to baskets filled with goodies - Mim got books, puzzles and clothing, while Mac got a soccer ball, tennis racket and Nerf baseball bat. We began our special holiday with donuts, followed by a bajillion jelly beans and chocolate eggs, leading to more meltdowns and tantrums before lunch than we usually have in a month. The kids were candy-crazy and I finally had to take everything away from them and hide it! At one point Mim ate completely though the wrapper on a mini Kit-Kat to get to the chocolate (swallowing the wrapper and all). Holidays are so much fun! I'm sure you're all feeling a bit bombarded by the millions of egg hunting and Easter basket photos filling your social media screens today, so feel free to just gloss over the photos - they're as riveting as little kids finding eggs in the front yard can possibly be. 

Once again, our neighborhood organized a multi-house Easter egg hunt for the little kids on the street. Every participating family put out 50 filled eggs for kids to find in the front yards and after taking the obligatory group photo, the kids took off like jack rabbits in the attempt to find the most eggs. The bigger kids obviously had better luck and quicker feet, but with that many eggs, even the littlest egg-hunters had plenty of fun. 

This was the third year Mac participated and the first year that he really had fun with it. The first year he was so distracted by the candy in the very first egg he found that he just sat down to eat it all and didn't care about finding any more. Last year, he did better at finding the eggs, but wanted us right next to him, holding his hand and pointing them out. This year though, he bolted and made a beeline to our front yard and collected as many as he could fit in his basket. He was competitive with the other kids, but was also sweet enough to help Mim find some eggs to fill her basket too. Although, surprisingly that child didn't need one bit of help - she was totally into the egg hunt and acted as though she'd done this a million times! She squealed with glee when she found an egg and counted every one she put in her basket (two, three, two, four, eight!). 
Hope you had a lovely Easter weekend, too!

23 comments:

  1. Such cuties! There's nothing better than babies!

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  2. That's such a fun idea! Our subdivision has all middle schoolers & up. Womp!

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  3. Oh my! How does mim just keep getting cuter?? I adore the series of bunny ear pics! The last one is perfection, but Mac's faces in the other two are priceless! :)

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  4. So cute and I love the neighborhood tradition! So fun to hunt with all those kids.

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  5. Wow, that's a serious egg hunt, love it!! Mim's dress is adorable. Jealous of all the blooms, so pretty.

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  6. Man, you have some cute kids! And are they determined or what? SO fun!!

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  7. Stella was the same as Mim! We went to a hunt and all the kids were playing in the bounce house at the beginning...Stella was putting eggs in her basket. Ha! Looks like so much fun!

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  8. Oh my gosh...the candy tantrums were UNREAL this weekend! And Nash ate a chocolate egg in the wrapper, so tell Mim she's not alone. And you know I love Mac's eyeroll pics ;)

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  9. Aww the egg hunt pictures are adorable! I hear ya about the candy induced meltdowns. Lord do cam have some major ones. Emmy was content finding goldfish and eating off my plate so she was easy (this year). Happy Easter friend.

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  10. The candy induced meltdowns and gnawing through wrappers to get to the chocolate sound mighty familiar...are you sure you weren't at my house?? Happy Easter!

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  11. That is so fun that your neighborhood does that! And I love seeing photos of pink trees and bunny ears... Can't get enough!!!

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  12. The bunny ears pics are my fave. And I think it is too cool when the neighborhood does a hunt. We need to move clearly.

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  13. The last photos of Mac and Mim?! I die!! Mac has such a personality and I don't think it gets much more sweet than that Mim of yours.

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  14. So so cute!!! Precious pictures! I hear you on the candy meltdowns - so far we are on day 3 of total meltdowns from egg hunts!

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  15. The kids in the bunny ears are SO CUTE!
    I love that you do a neighborhood Easter egg hunt. It makes it so much fun to not only hunt for eggs with friends but be able to go house to house collecting eggs!

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  16. The bunny pictures at the end are the very best! lol!

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  17. The bunny ear pictures at the very end have me cracking up, Mac's face. Ha, ha! Plus, I love Mim's outfit, very cute. :)

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  18. I felt it was a mad dash to the Easter finish line this year! So early. So unprepared!
    But, I want to live in your neighborhood. That egg hunt sounds amazing. And Mim rocked it!
    Also. The last few photos of Mac and Mim - priceless!

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  19. Your neighborhood egg hunt sounds just like ours, except we give the under 5 year olds a 2 minute head start! And how fun that Mac got all sorts of sporting equipment! Are you going to be starting him in any organized sports soon?

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  20. Sounds like a wonderful Easter! I love that your neighborhood comes together to have a massive hunt for the kids. They made out like bandits!! Great pictures, friend!!

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  21. Love how your neighborhood does a group Easter egg hunt! That looks like so much fun!! Your little bunnies look like they had an eggscellent time :)

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  22. I love the pictures! That's awesome that Mim participated in the egg hunt. Liam had no interest in anything but running through the field! Glad you had a nice Easter!

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