Our Easter festivities started out the weekend before Easter. A home health and hospice clinic we work with hosted an Easter egg hunt at a local high school.

We had to RSVP and they wanted every bodies ages which I thought was odd. But when we got there we figured out why.

We had an extra munchkin that day. Shane's baby Shaylee.

(Super bad pic but I wasn't in the editing mood.)


They had enough eggs for every kid to have 15-20! It was great! There was no fighting or crying.

They did a hunt for all ages up to 18. I so wish I would of taken Sam with us because they gave every 17 and 18 year old kid there a $500 scholarship! It was amazing!

They also did an adult hunt. It was hilarious. Our neighbors where there with us so I took one for the team and stayed with our children (which consists of 6 boys!) while the others searched for eggs.



I took this pic right as David put a chocolate in his mouth. Sorry for the one chipmunk cheek David.
We made out like bandits. Karl found eggs with $50 to Texas Roadhouse and $10 to Orange Leaf(heaven in a cup) plus an egg with $5 cash.
Jenni and Dave found eggs with 4 movie tickets that included soda and popcorn and $10 to Orange Leaf.
They gave away a weekend to Jackson Hole but we didn't find the lucky egg with that in it. Darn! We will definitely be attending next year! What a good time.



The next weekend our neighbor hosted her annual Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood kids. She is so great to do this! The hunt is for kids 12 and under but the kids that are over 12 get to come and help her hide the eggs.




Hudson lost his privilege to go to the hunt since he decided it would be a good idea to throw some large rocks in the air which inevitably came down and hit Karter and his buddy Arly smack on the head leaving them both with huge goose eggs.
That little kid LOVES to throw things. He wasn't being naughty or mean just not putting a lot of thought into the fact that what goes up must come down.

We finished out the day dyeing Easter eggs. The boys loved it. This was the first time we had done it. Mean mom...huh.

Hudson was so proud of his eggs!

Karter dislikes having his picture taken so I couldn't get him to give me a smile. He had dyed eggs at preschool a few days before so he was feeling quite smart that he knew what to do .

The Easter bunny left the kiddos their baskets with a note that said he was going to come back and hide their eggs while we were at church and leave them a big surprise.

Since we have nine o'clock church this was exceptionally nice of him so we didn't have to pry the darlings away from all the fun ;).

We bought the kiddos new church clothes. Aren't they so darn cute all dressed up. Never mind the shovel. I definitely have boys.
Hudson was in the mood to take pics of everything.
We bought Karter these fun shoes because Karl has a pair just like them. Karter loves them! He thinks he's pretty neat that he can wear shoes like his dads.
Hudson had to have a pic of his shoes taken because Karter did. We would of gotten Hud a pair of the same shoes but they didn't have any small enough. Darn.

When we were picking out the boys outfits Karl wanted to by Hud some white pants with a little jacket. He said "It's fun to dress him in weird clothes because he's so short and he looks like a clown when you dress him."

Poor cute little Bubby.

This was the Easter bunnies big surprise!

We...I mean the Easter bunny didn't actually have to use much of his money for this. My dad and step mom had sent the kiddos gift cards to Toys R Us for Christmas and I had gotten a Visa gift card from work. Since everyone usually gets more than necessary at Christmas I decided I'd save the gift cards for Easter.
I was browsing the ads one day and saw this jeep on sale plus it had a coupon. So the Easter bunny was able to get a smokin' deal on it.

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Patty!!

Of course the kiddos love it and of course there has been quite the fights over who gets to drive.