Easter fun at Grandma's

We haven't had  Easter away from home in a while, but we did this year.  Grandma McCammon always does a fun easter egg hunt for the kids.  She's very organized!!!  A gift that I was not blessed with, but I am grateful for those who are!!!

 Bill with his sister Teressa and Tammy you can kinda see Jason in between the two girls

 Grandma reading off the list of how many of each kind of candy the kids get.

 Easter Morning is always fun!!!!  Happy Easter guys...sure do love you!!!

The Easter Egg Hunt

In my short time with kids (hahaha) we have been to a few Easter egg hunts that the cities we've lived in have done. We've never done the Tautphaus Park one. But here its just a field of eggs dumped out by the firemen. On one end, kids grouped off (sort of), and a siren to start the battle. When we lived in Nampa they used a few different parks for the different age groups and it was a square where everyone could stand all the way around it, again the eggs just dumped and a fire engine siren to start us off. In Tremonton the few years we were there, they had each age group roped off, parents were not aloud to step into it to help kids. You could gather 3 eggs at a time and run back to a table where they would give you a full size candy bar and then run and get 3 more until the eggs were gone. I really like this one it evened the playing field a lot and most kids left with about the same amount. I don't remember going to one in Logan, we would usually drive to Wellsville since that's where Bills folks lived. Jesse was just a little guy so I am not sure if the whole park was the same, but for the little kids they had candy just spread over the entire field, and the kids just ran and filled their baskets with that. There were a few eggs that had other types of prizes, but Jesse wasn't going to mess with things he can't see he just picked up candy.

I love it when the kids find their friends to hang with while waiting it makes the wait so much more pleasant.

Have your kids ever been one with the ticket for a big prize? We finally did it after all the egg hunts we've been to. Abbie got a ticket this year. It was so exciting. She ended up with roller blades and a new helmet. I still haven't got a picture yet. We thought about taking them back because she has some already, but its only going to be one more year till Cierra needs hers so we figured we'd just keep them now we have an extra pair when a friend comes over to play, the new ones are nicer anyway.

Did you get a glimpse of flat stanley in the pictures??? He's visiting from the kids' cousin in Bountiful and we're taking him places with us! Showing Stanley a good time!!!

Stripes, Solids, Plaid...what can you do to an easter egg?

My kids just keep dipping them in all the colors and they go brown. They like the crayon and this year they used paint brushes.

Don't you just love coloring Easter eggs? I remember as a kids it was the highlight of easter for me. I must get it from my mother, she still does it even though there are no kids there, she gets carried away though she colors the non hard boiled eggs too!!!

Jesse showing Cierra the what's and how to's.

UH-OH I think she snuck an egg, or that kid really needs to brush her teeth!!

My sweet Abbie posing for the camera!