Easter Activities

This week we began our Easter preparations with a trip to the YMCA for the annual egg hunt. They had activities in the gym and the girls did a number of craft activities, while we anxiously awaited the start of the egg hunt.

Jamie coached Katie who had a pretty competitive field and I worked with Caroline who had her bag completely filled and there were still eggs to be picked up. Apparently, I directed her to a bad area because when we opened her eggs about 10 of them were filled with the same blue (boyish) plastic ring, while Katie had more candy. Perhaps she should get a better coach, since my stay in one area and pick up all the eggs from one place strategy meant getting little variety in the prizes! We have another hunt next Saturday, so we'll try again.

The kids had fun and after it had rained all day Friday, we were happy that the sun was shining.

We had to work hard to get the eggs untaped!

That night we went to a "Spring Fling" at the country club that we are joining. This was our first event and the girls had a ball. We quickly figured out that the event was for the kids and most of the parents were next door having dinner and drinks, but since Caroline was too little to leave unsupervised, we spent most of our time being extremely entertained by the dancing. Caroline loved the hula hoop contest and Katie found that she knew several girls from school and several girls from her gymnastics class there, so she was very busy running around with them.

On Sunday we dyed our Easter eggs. Caroline quickly got to work and dumped an egg in every available cup, and then jammed a second on top (pictured here).

Katie, on the other hand, carefully dipped half of her eggs here and half there, being very careful and artistic about it.

Jamie stole their eggs and wrote secret messages on them with the white crayon (i.e. "Boys Rule, Girls Drool")

By virtue of her technique (all eggs ended up in the orange dye at the end), Caroline had a lot of similarly colored eggs.

Katie left some of hers in for ages and got some very dark blues and greens . . . and as you might guess, we are eating a lot of bluish hard boiled eggs!

On Monday, Katie and I made some Easter candy. Here Katie poses while decorating her lollipops.

I guess we're reay for Easter now!