The Easter-Palooza

We woke up Sunday to beautiful weather and a few last minute things to get done.  We didn't have an Easter basket for Miss M outside of the one she was receiving for the egg hunt so thankfully Aunt Ness had a present for her to open! Aunt Nessa is always prepared.

Here's a glimpse into how our new living room furniture turned out which will be another blog post when I can get some decent pictures of the area without the coloring being off. We love it. Sitting in here just makes me happy.  So does Miss M.  

The kids started arriving around 9:30 and the egg hunt transpired around 10:30.

I was very anxious to see how five two year olds would do hunting eggs. It turned out that 3/5's of the two year olds didn't care one bit. They found an egg or two and thus began the consumption of candy. They were the kids who know there were treats inside the eggs and knew there was no reason to hunt for 20 of them when there were treats inside the ones they found.

Miss M and her friend Tadgh (pronounced like tiger (without the er - it's Irish) were into hunting eggs and thankfully collected most of the 100 eggs which were scattered throughout the yard.

Here's a representation of what egg hunting looked like in the beginning. The little guy in the green and blue sweater is Tadgh. He was very focused on eggs. The three inside the play set weren't really interested. The play set was Miss M's Easter present thus why she didn't receive an extra Easter basket filled with goodies.

 Miss M filled her basket.

Tadgh's basket got so full he finally just set it down, found the eggs, and tried to stack more eggs into an overflowing basket.

 Miss M took a rest for some treats.

Everyone was able to hang out in the backyard and we had enough amusement park toys to keep the children entertained.

Eventually we had to come inside to get all the food out of the oven and on the table. All the two year olds (with the exception of Miss M) took a nap during dinner and thus we were able to have a fairly adult-like dinner which doesn't happen very often. 

Easter-Palooza was a success. I had so much fun and I think everyone else did too...maybe not Andrew and Annessa who voluntarily took over clean-up duties.  The clean up is the hardest because it's the least amount of fun but everything was washed and dried and put away before the evening concluded.

Monday was rough. I was exhausted. The adrenaline from Saturday and Sunday kept me going those days but Monday I found it difficult to want to do anything. Miss M found it difficult to go back to life without people everywhere and go back to a life without treat filled eggs.  I think we've almost got ourselves sorted out and it's almost Thursday.  

Here's to hoping there is a second annual Easter-Palooza!