Easter Egg Hunt

For the last four years, our Cul de Sac has always come together on the Saturday before Easter to do a HUGE egg hunt spanning the front yards of seven out of the nine houses on our street, with egg counts as high as 300. All eggs having something inside...candy, coupons for bigger surprises, and even money...the green stuff.

However, over the last year, our Cul de Sac has changed. And will change even more by the end of the summer when our dear friends and neighbors next door relocate to Maryland. Last year, we had two families where the kids got along with one another, move. One of the houses saw new kids move in, only they don't get along with some of the kids who've lived on this street for years. One of the other existing families who have participated in the egg hunt for the last four years, the kids turned sour and they don't get along with the other kids either. So this year...the egg hunt only spanned our backyard, had only five kids participating, but still had a massive amount of eggs to to be found...150 eggs to be exact. Because there were so few kids this year, I was able to do something I had read about in a magazine a couple years ago...I assigned every kid an egg color. You could only hunt for your designated egg color. I hid the eggs accordingly, leaving the toddler girls eggs low and easily spotted, while making it a little more difficult for Hannah, Emily, and Kayla.

"Hurry Mom, I have eggs to find. Lending a helping hand to Emily in her search for her final four eggs. The girls had a lot of fun as always. It was also fun having every search for their own colored egg. Defianately puts a new twist on an egg hunt with so many eggs to be found! I was also able to fill equal amounts of eggs so that everyone got 30 eggs. There's no doubt everyone got enough candy! And to think Hannah and Rachel have another egg hunt tomorrow at Gramma and Papa's house!