neighborhood Easter fun

We had our annual neighborhood Easter Egg hunt this morning.  Our street has some great people and we genuinely enjoy their company.  I think we have been doing this easter egg hunt for at least the last 8 or 9 years - I can't really remember the first one, but it's been a long time!  Brooke had to miss it this year because she had a volleyball game at the same time.   She was disappointed to be missing the hunt, but she said she was mostly sad becaues she wanted to help Fox, and I actually believe her on that one.  She and her "little buddy" have been hanging quite a bit lately.  We promised her we would do another one for just our kids so she could hunt with him (using all the same recycled eggs, of course).   We have different people's yards set aside for different age groups - so the under 2 crowd isn't fighting the 9 and up crowd for eggs.  

Fox and his friend, Joey, were hilarious because they both had kind of smaller baskets (yes, we are making Fox use a clearly girly basket recycled from one of his sisters), so when they filled their baskets there were still eggs on the lawn but they were both kind of like, "we're done."  I even offered to hold some of his eggs to he could get more, but he was not needing that - I mean, he had a full basket already so what more did he need?  The 6 year olds were happy to come finish off the little kids' egg section for them.

Last year we started an egg drop to give the older kids something else to do (along with decorating cupcakes and dying eggs - spoiled kids).  Anyway, last year we googled and got some great ideas, but this year we decided to just go for it and come up with some of our own ideas.  Ashley had balloons blown up in a circle-ish with the egg in a small bag with two planting thing with cotton balls inside and the egg inside that.  It actually woudl have been great, except for she couldn't get the bag to stay attached to the balloons.  She had duct taped it, but you had to be able to take the tape off to verify the egg was still in one piece and she had a hard time doing that without popping the balloons.  So on the last throw the middle went flying with the egg and the egg broke.  We'll work on that.

Lauren had a styrofoam McDonald's cup (don't know where that came from... ha).  Anyway, she filled it with popped popcorn with the egg in the middle, then put the cup in a gallon bag with more popcorn surrounding it.   Lauren's egg survived all drops - success! 

You can see from Lauren's snappy outfit that she was going to her soccer game right after the hunt and the egg drop so she insisted on being fully dressed.  It was actually a good thing, because we ended up only making it to her game 5 minutes before game time.