Happy Easter!

We started Easter off by going to the Grove Park Easter egg hunt on Saturday.  Grove Park is the new neighborhood that we moved into that houses lots and lots of young families with kids.  We were to bring Easter eggs filled with candy or prizes to one particular house and some residents were in charge of "hiding" the Easter eggs for the hunt on Saturday.  I filled 12 plastic eggs with goodies like snickers, twix, and milky ways and dropped it off to the designated house a day late...but after talking to some people they didn't take ANY Easter eggs, so I didn't feel bad about that.  I read later that we were suppose to fill the easter eggs with any candy BUT chocolate:)  You know chocolate melts!

Before we went, I knew Colt would MAYBE leave with 1 Easter egg, I pictured him just standing there and watching the other kids rather than fighting to grab up an egg.  Once we got there, the announcer said that there were 1100 eggs "hidden" in the park.  The 1-4 year olds were to find the eggs in the park and the older kids were to find eggs at a couple of the larger homes near the park.  Ok, 1100 eggs...Colt will definitely leave with more than one...MAYBE:) 

So, the hunt began.  I persuaded Colt to pick up the first egg, so he did and I praised him, then I convinced him to run and get more eggs.  He started running as fast as his little legs could go.  But, if you put a 2 year old with a 4 year old who is basically a pro at this egg hunting thing, the 4 year old is definitely going to win.  It was the saddest thing in the world, watching Colt running with his arm held high so he wouldn't drop his Easter bucket and going for an egg, just to watch an older kid snatch it up before he ever had a chance.  He did manage to pick up 3 eggs.  It didn't seem to bother him in the slightest especially when he found out that there was candy inside!  Yes, we ate all the candy...not that there was much but it didn't last long.  Here is Colt with his hand held high:) (as you notice there are no eggs in sight)

And here he is after he discovered the candy inside.

That afternoon our friend Deborah came home to enjoy Easter at her own home (she's been at UAB with her premature baby since February).  We hung out in the park while Colt and Canon played in the water at our house.  These pictures were taken by Josh...pay back!

Scene 1 (Canon should really move)

 Scene 2 (yep should have moved!)

After this happened, pool time was over!  We had dinner over at our house and called it a night!

Easter morning, Colt discovered that the Easter Bunny came to visit!  He packed his bucket from last year with some goodies.  He got PJ's, playdough, matchbox cars, 2 new sippy cups and of course candy.  He loved everything, especially the Pez:)

Easter day we went to church and sat with Barry and Deborah.  There were several times when I wanted to talk to Deborah but I kept quiet...1) because it's Easter and the service was really good so I wanted to keep focus and 2) Deborah hasn't attended her home church in a couple of months, so I knew she didn't want to be bothered:)

After the service, we went to the Moss's to have our 3rd Annual Pot Luck Easter Lunch.  According to Deborah, the first was at our house (she had to remind me of this) and last year we had it at the Moss's also.  Everyone brought over some delicious food!  I'm thinking about making this a monthly thing??  Colt had fallen asleep shortly after we got home from church, so we left him in his bed at our house and used our iPhones as a monitor while we walked a couple houses down to Barry and Deborah's house.  Hope this is not child abuse...but it sure was nice to enjoy lunch with our friends (who were chasing their toddlers around...haha). 

Later in the day, after Colt woke up and all the other kids had their nap, it was play time again with the water.  Here are some cute pictures of the boys playing.

From left to right: Colt, Jack, Canon and Luke

Looks like Josh was trying to talk some sense in these two, they are ALWAYS bickering with one another!

After the kids were done (somewhat) with the water, they had their own Easter egg hunt...this was turned out a lot better than the community one.  All boys were under the age of 2 1/2, Colt was the smallest (as usual), but he held his own and did great (with the help from me:).  One of the older neighborhood boys, who is only 6 hid all the eggs for the toddlers and did an awesome job and was so sweet about it:)



We did manage to get a family photo this year - yay...but I don't like it.  I'm not really sure, I think it's because we look old, there are shadows all over our faces and Colt looks mad.  MAYBE next year:)