Tongue n' Cheek

Hey kiddos let's take an Easter picture.

Lily?! What's in your mouth? Of course it Easter candy.

Say Cheese

I had to limit the number of eggs that I wanted to hard boil. If the kids were to choose, they would have dyed a dozen each. I figured that if I let the kids each dye three, that would be a good number.

Surprisingly the kids did not fight over the flimsy plastic egg holder. They each took turns dipping eggs and even helped each other pick "cool" colors. It wasn't until I tried to take their picture that they starting sharing the "love".

Early Easter

We did an Easter egg hunt this morning. The City of Niwot put on a pretty impressive egg hunt. They had the kids divided by ages and grade levels. They also separated the groups by having them hunt for eggs on different fields. I felt slightly torn because they had a 1 grade group, 2nd grade group, and then a 3,4,5th grade group. I decided to have Emma hang with the big kids rather than have Jack hang out with younger kids. As it turns out, I made a good decision.
Before the hunt started, the organizers told the kids if they found a golden egg they could exchange it for prizes. I'm not sure how many kids were in our group, probably around 75 kids. There were 35 golden eggs. Emma made out like a bandit, she picked up LOTS of candy. Jack kept picking up yellow hard boiled eggs hoping that they were the "golden eggs", he neglected to pick up much candy. Neither of them got a golden egg.
I'm glad I went with our neighbors, they were able to take Lily with them while I went with Emma and Jack. Lily had a great time with Brody. I didn't even get to see her look for eggs. Lily had a full basket when we all met up at the end.