Third Annual Easter Egg Hunt

What a fun time we all had yesterday with the Easter egg hunt in our back yard. This year we even had two toddlers participate in their very first egg hunts. The three older kids really got into hiding the eggs for the preschoolers. A couple of dads oversaw then to make sure they don't hide them too well. I think the trickiest hiding spot this year was the pink egg Gabriel hid in snow. One could just barely see a hint of its color. He was a great big brother and told his sister where to find it after the hunt had gone on for a while. I picked up some 25-cent camera trinkets this year and the kids went nuts over them. They ran around pretending to take pictures of everything. Linus continued playing with his right up to bedtime, then woke up early this morning and was immediately at it again. Last night he took pictures of birds in one of his bird books. Now he is off at the zoo with Matthew. He wants to take pictures of the animals with it. I gave him my old camera a while back and he has a lot of fun with that, but the little plastic one is even more fun in some ways. He pretends to hook it up to a computer to upload the pictures and change the backgrounds.