The Hunt..part duo

The thing I love the most about being a mom is holidays.  Not only do I only love holidays personally (I'm sure I've made that very clear) but I love holidays with my family.  I think Easter is creeping up on the favorite list.  Last weekend we headed to the cabin to celebrate Easter with Les' family....and of course, only my daughter was lucky enough to have a custom Easter basket made just for her.  (what can I say, she's the only girl!)

Thanks Aunt Becky! We love our basket

 In the afternoon, Uncle Chad came running in and said he saw a bunny pooping out eggs all over the lawn!  Eden got so excited and then immediately frantic. She went on a panicked hunt for her Easter basket so she wouldn't miss out on the action.  Come to find out, Uncle Chad's discovery was a little preemptive because the Easter bunny wasn't done and since we didn't want to scare her away we had to wait a little longer.  This left a little boy and girl pacing the kitchen waiting to be released!

To say Eden was excited for the Easter egg hunt at Papa's is an understatement.  She had her first go around at my mom's the week before to get all the kinks out so today she was rearing to go.  She had a hard time keeping the eggs in her basket because she was bending and running so fast the eggs could hardly keep up!

I think my favorite part was when Eden ran up to me completely breathless and said "Mama hold my basket!  I got to beat Bronson!".  They were in a full on battle with each other.  They both would race as fast as they could to an egg when they spotted one.  When there were two, we had to remind them to leave one for the other.  Usually, Bronson would inform Eden which egg color she could have.  He also informed all us adults that he was in charge at the cabin...so watch out!

While we were outside looking for eggs the Easter bunny snuck inside and left some present in there as well.   (seriously...my daughter is way too spoiled)

Then it was finally time to sit down and check out all loot!  Grandma and Eden just popped down right on the kitchen floor...it would have taken too long to walk over to the carpet... Those eggs needed to be opened....PRONTO!!

Apparently I wasn't doing my duty as a member of the Rose family because I had not given my daughter a bat or glove and she is "already" 2 years old.  FOR SHAME!  So grandma picked up the slack and Eden was in heaven.  

The boys were super excited to get outside and show her how it's done.  Grandma gave her that cute hat and she immediately put it on and said it was her baseball hat.  She wouldn't swing her bat without it.  Even now, when we are in the back yard and practicing our baseball...everything comes to a stop until she put on her baseball cap! 

I was feeling very guilty that Easter had become ALL about the Easter bunny and no so much about what Easter is really about so I made sure that Sunday was centered on the true meaning of Easter and all it means to me and my little family...more to come!

Egg Expert Extraordinaire

Friday night we gathered the kids, some cups, vinegar and some hard boiled eggs.  We had our traditional egg dying night.

I have no idea why we do this every year.  It's super messy, at one point Eden dumped the entire contents of the "purple" cup over the counter and cried...no more purple eggs.

The eggs stink and no one really wants to eat them either.  The usually end up in a potato salad, which then goes to waste....but man the kids have fun decorating them.

This year we tried marbleized eggs.  Apparently if you add a little bit of coconut oil to each of the cups they cause the eggs to dye darker in some spots and then not at all in others.  The kids thought this was super cool.

Eden would dip an egg in the cup and them immediately pull it out and and wonder why it wasn't colored.  She colored 5 eggs lickety split and then decided it was funnier to watch her cousins dye their eggs and tell them how beautiful they were.

After the cartoon was full, it was off to play leaving me and grandma to clean up the mess.  Soon it was off to bed to wait the arrival of the Easter bunny.

The HUNT

This weekend we went up to my mom's for an Easter Egg Hunt.  I was the easter bunny proxy this year.  The kids anxiously waiting inside while I hide the eggs, but before it was time to release the wild animals, a few instructions needed to be given.

Then we made them wait even longer while we TRIED to take some pictures...

Then it was READY, SET....and they were off!!

They had so much fun running around the backyard looking for eggs.  There was screaming and yelling every time someone found an egg.  Eden needed a little bit of coaching on what the proper egg hunting technique was....she thought she should open each egg after she found one.  I had to remind her that we waiting until we found ALL the eggs before we looked inside.  Jaxton had a hard time with this concept too...there was candy to be eaten!

Then after we thought we found all the eggs (key word "thought"), the little munchkins sat down and tried to devour their contents before the mamas had a chance to intervene. Come to find out there were still 4 missing eggs that eventually showed up as the night went on.

 Overall, the egg hunt was a big success.  The kids had a blast.  Eden was so excited the Easter bunny came to give her treats.  Later that night, my mom's house was suddenly over taken by bunny rabbits.  All the adults were sitting chatting in the kitchen when we heard the words "HOP! HOP! HOP!"It was hilarious and we couldn't stop laughing.

Man, I love holidays...I love everything about them.  I love being surrounded by my awesome family and I just absolutely LOVE watching Eden enjoy all the fun each holiday brings.

 Hoppy Easter this weekend...from my little bunny rabbit!

 
Our hilarious little bunny rabbits