Easter

We have been busy busy!

Friday we colored eggs...much less exciting than expected. All the eggs are solid colors, the girls' hands did NOT turn colors...it was all very calm.

Saturday we went to an egg hunt. We were going to try & go to two of them but we couldn't work out the logistics of that AND go to the movies, but I am getting ahead of myself. The egg hunt was held at a park the nest town over. The signs I saw and the blurb in the paper said that registration was at 10:45 with the egg hunt from 11 to 1. There were to be 25,000 eggs dropped from a helicopter! How cool!!! Well...
We got there at 10:15 so we would have time to park the car and walk over to the park. We registered and then found out that the egg hunt didn't actually start until noon! Normally it would have been no big deal, after all, we were at a park...except it had rained, poured the night before so there were giant mud puddles everywhere and it was cold so I didn't want the girls to get wet. We wandered around awhile then the girls decided that they wanted their faces painted like bunnies. The pictures might suggest that Emily wasn't pleased with this but she really was. I think the fumes, no matter how light they were, bothered her eyes as she immediately started tearing up when they painted her nose. {They both walked around the rest of the day asking if their nose and whiskers were still there.} So then it was time to go to your designated area {divided by age, supposedly} and get ready for the hunt. 20,000 eggs had already been hidden, read: thrown all over for the kids to gather...the girls were so excited!!!!! Then an announcement was made to move to the basketball courts at the helicopter was coming to drop an additional 5,000 eggs they didn't want anyone hit by flying Easter eggs. Luckily George was paying attention and saw that while people moved back not many people were as far back as we were...so we moved up to where everyone else was standing. We watched the helicopter drop 5,000 additional eggs. The girls thought it was fantastic! Then a bullhorn sounded to let us know the egg hunt was underway. Here is where is all went bad.... George took Emily to her area while I tried to get Ella to hers only a few steps away. There were so many adults grabbing arm loads of eggs that we couldn't breakthrough them and get to a clear area. All the eggs were gone in about 2 minutes, which is to be expected. Ella ended up with 9 eggs...9 out of 25,000 she had 9. Then we had to find George and Emily which was no easy task there were people everywhere. We walked back to where we had split up and waited and looked for a few minutes then I decided we should just walk back to the car to meet up with Emily and George. We walked backwards through the park to avoid the congestion. There we got to witness one of my biggest fears...at least 6 parents screaming out their kids names, giving descriptions to the police to help them find their kids. One man was describing his son, his 4 year old son. The police officer asked when the last time he saw him was and the man said that he sent him one way to get eggs while he went the other. He had a shirt full of eggs but no little boy...are you kidding me?!?!!? You are a grown adult, you could have gone to the store to buy your own candy but instead you take eggs meant for little kids and in the process lose your own kid. INSANE! I am sure all of the kids were reunited, I haven't heard anything to the contrary on the news but the idea that my children were lost...I can't even imagine. Anyway, hearing the parents voices and seeing everything she saw Ella said she didn't ever want to go back to that egg hunt again. She was shaking asking me where Daddy was...when I told her I saw the car door was open so Emily and Daddy were indeed at the car she literally said "whewf!" My poor Beans! Emily was not nearly as traumatized by the hunt but was disappointed in her haul 18 eggs! She said "I saw lots of parents with tons of eggs for their kids..that's not fair." She's right. We won't be going to that egg hunt next year.
We went to see Hannah Montana The Movie after the hunt. the girls really enjoyed it. Emily was thrilled that we were going and Ella was literally dancing in the aisles when a song came on that she liked. They were so cute to watch!

Today, Sunday, we woke up bright and early to see what the Easter Bunny had brought for us...a lot of candy that's what! Except for 1 small thing at the movies yesterday, they have not had candy for the past 40 days. I think they ate their weight in candy before 7 am!!! They were so happy!!!! Then they put on their little Easter dresses and headed out to the church egg hunt. There were about 500 eggs and 50-100 kids...every kid had a full basket...every parent knew where their child was...everyone had a good time! That's not all the fun we had, oh no! My girls love an egg hunt! So when we got home I hid more eggs and they looked for them as well. After a while, they hid their jewelery in the eggs and hid them for their dolls to find...that was one of the most unsuccessful egg hunts all weekend.

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