Family Easter Egg Hunt 2013

My sister is great at hosting the family Easter Egg Hunt, and this year she went overboard by doing all the food and Easter Eggs for the hunt herself. I think we were all still trying to recover from putting on Jodee's wedding so it was a welcome surprise that I didn't have to lift a finger! Although I was a little sad to think that we were going to miss out on Natalie's crazy bread, but luckily she didn't disappoint and brought it anyway. It's so good! It was a typical wonderful day- the men sat in the backyard catching up while they watched the kids so the women could finish getting the food setup and ready.

 

 

Once the spread was all ready, we dug in. Ollie loves getting spoiled by all his cousins who are always eager to take care of him!

 

 

Love Hydee's courtyard, great place to eat and so pretty in the spring.

After brunch came the famous picture on the stairs with all the cousins.

 

In an effort to get everyone smiling we yelled out to the kids- "Who wants candy?" and they yelled back as loudly as they could "Me! Me! Me!" Poor Ollie still gets scared in loud chaos and burst into tears! But Auntee Marcee was there to rescue him.

 

 

 

All ready for the Easter Egg Hunt, we have been practicing for weeks and I was sure Ollie was going to dominate!

 

 

I forgot to take into account the fact that not only was the hunt right at his nap time, but the loud chaos that occurred as everyone was let lose out the door sent him over the edge- there was no dominating going on, he just cried his little eyes out!

 

It just took one egg and remembering that there were treats inside to get him back into the swing of things.

 

He was a bit slow to take off so Dada had to help him find eggs that the other kids couldn't reach.

 



 

The babies and their spoils...

 

 

Traditional picture of all the grandkids with Grandpa and Marmee, not an easy shot to get!

 

 

 

Ollie telling Marmee he wants "More!"

 

Caught him poaching off of some of the other kids baskets!

 

 

Everyone else was in the middle of a big Easter Egg fight so they didn't seem to notice! Here's Drex going after Matt...

 

 

One of the best parts of being with family is that Matt and I get to sit back and relax while Ollie plays with all the cousins.

 

 

Laird and Joshua kept him busy, he loves to wrestle them...

The best part of him wrestling Joshua is Joshua's infectious laugh, he was hard belly laughing the entire time and I couldn't help but laugh along with them :)

 



 

Then Uncle Lance jumped in and got Ollie rapping with him...

 

The boys thought Ollie's rapping was a lot of fun, so so cute!

 

And just because there are SO MANY pics the highlights with all the rest of the cousins are posted in our Easter Eggg Hunt video. HAPPY EASTER!!!

 

 

"Practicing"

A few weeks ago I was at Walmart and saw my favorite jelly beans- Sweet Tart Jelly Beans. So I grabbed a few bags just in case they ran out before Easter. Once I had them in my house I decided I should share a few with Ollie and that is when all the fun started. For the last few weeks I have been grabbing a few jelly beans at a time and placing them around the house, helping him find them. It didn't take him any time at all to catch on to our little game but now all he wants is "More? More?"

I decided he was going to dominate in the Easter Egg hunt this year- so we upgraded him to putting one jelly bean in each plastic egg and he has been working every day on finding them. It's been super fun for me and I've been bragging to the cousins that they better watch out! Today Marmee came over and I sent him off with her to the park to practice with a basket this time- his last run before the big day tomorrow!

When they got home Marmee made the cutest little Easter crafts with/for him. Ollie loved them, but all he wanted to do was take them apart- typical boy!