Vance and Britt: Easter Egg Hunt

Friday, May 6, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt

We had a lot of family in town for Easter this year because of Kaleb’s blessing. It was so fun to see everyone and spend the holiday together. My parents came up from Utah with Emily and Annie, along with Gheen and Beth and their boys. My Grandma and Quinn also came from St. George. We all met up at Merrit and Mandee’s house in Blackfoot for a BBQ and an Easter egg hunt. It is not often that there is nice weather on Easter weekend in South Eastern Idaho (or anytime during the months of March and April) but it was a beautifully sunny and warm weekend. We sat outside on the patio and ate dinner and watched the kids run around their beautiful big yard. Austin always had so much fun running around with his cousin Maggie. (Maggie is technically my cousin, but she is the closest thing on the Gardner side that Austin has to cousin’s and they are only two weeks apart in age, so we just call them cousins.) We haven’t seen much of my Uncle Gheen and Aunt Beth and their boys since we moved to Idaho, so it was really fun catching up with them and enjoying the great weather.

As for the Easter egg hunt…Austin had had a little bit of training. The Monday before for FHE we wanted to teach Austin how to find Easter eggs so he would be ahead of the game during the actual hunt. We hid eggs filled with gummy worms all around the house and helped him find them. This little bit of practice sure paid off. Austin had so much fun running around picking up eggs. But he’s no dummy…after he picked up each egg, he would shake it before putting in his basket just to make sure it wasn’t a dud with no candy. There were over 100 eggs hidden all over the yard, and Austin definitely found his share. There were a couple of times that Austin and Maggie would see the same egg and race to go get it. It was kind of cute to see the squabble over the egg that they thought was theirs.