Easter 2010

Decorating the eggs was quite the challenge this year.  Austin was having SO much fun that it made it difficult to keep him from spilling the dye all over.  Poor kids had a really quick egg decorating session this year, but they were troopers!

 

Easter morning was so much fun.  The easter bunny hid eggs both upstairs and downstairs.  Austin got a little trampoline since he’s quite the bouncy kid and some toy cars.  Emma got some Littlest Pet Shop toys and a dress and Tyson got some Lego sets and some clothes.  The big kids also got “Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Squeak-quel” and a Wii game for the Wii Fit.  Austin was so excited by his cars that he wouldn’t leave them to find eggs.  That was BEFORE he discovered there was “nandy” in the eggs. 

 

Austin did not want to leave the toys for a picture, so I’m standing behind Justin while he’s taking this picture and making goofy faces at the kids.  For the record…they were NOT laughing with me! 

We went to Jared and ShaRee’s for our Jones Family Easter egg hunt and luncheon.  Since it was snowy and COLD outside, the eggs were hid indoors.  The younger kids did their hunt in their basement.  They ran around like mad, searching all over.  Austin was so easily distracted by the cat and then by Kamree’s guitar that he didn’t care about hunting for eggs (again, this was before he discovered “nandy” inside of them). 

The bigger kids got to hunt upstairs and their hiding places were more difficult (see the Elk above).  They are maniacs and managed to find all their eggs within minutes (at least we hope they found them all).  The best hiding place was an orange egg placed in a bowl of oranges on the counter.  My nephew, Kasen, looked at that bowl for a minute before he realized there was an egg in there. 

Finally, with the hunt done, we attempted the annual Easter picture of all the grandkids.  So much fun to try to get them all to look at the same camera and smile at the same time.  Not really fun at all.  It’s so much chaos (mostly from the uncles trying to get the kids to look at them and smile), but it is entertaining!