Easter Egg Hunt 2013

This was our other organized Easter egg hunt.  It was put on by the Parks and Rec Department and we go every year.  This year was by far the nicest weather we've had.  It was fairly warm, the sun was out and there was NO WIND.  Amazing! 

Here we are ready to line up and wait for the signal.  There was a good turnout and I was worried the kids wouldn't be getting many eggs.  You remember last year?  When Abby ended up with 2 eggs.  And I think Brooklyn only got a few more than that.  And we had a cry fest.  Well, I prepped them both this year letting them know that we would go and have fun and wouldn't cry about how many eggs we got.  So that's what we were ready for.

Here's Brooklyn at the signal.  I was with her, Darren was with the boys, and Abby was on her own.  So I really only got pictures of Brooklyn in action.

Just look for the red coat.  It was very convenient to keep track of her by!

Here's Abby.  I got this picture of her when Brooklyn was done and Abby was just going back over her  course one final time to make sure the hundreds of kids hadn't missed an egg.  Which they hadn't.

And looky!  We ended up with a basket of eggs!!  I think both girls ended up with 9.  They were desperate to find the Golden Egg but it has eluded us year after year:)

Darren and the boys.  Apparently Jace still wasn't all that into the egg hunt.  Instead of getting after it and gathering eggs fast, he would spot one, walk up to it, and ask Darren if he could pick it up. 
He still managed to get his basket full.

Colby picked up all the discarded eggs looking for candy.  When there was nothing in it he threw to the side and went after the next one.

Afterwards we stuck around for the dance party!  Here the girls are doing the Bunny Hop.  For every dance you participated in you got put in a drawing for prizes.  And guess who won the very first prize??  Our very own Brooklyn!!  Woo hoo!

She won a soccer ball.  It was awesome.  And it gave Colby something to do while we waited for the fun to end.

And guess who won the very next prize??  None other than Jace!! He won 5 swim passes to the pool this summer!  Right on!  I couldn't believe how lucky we were.  That's when the pressure was on for Abby to win.  But she didn't. 

Until the end that is.  And then she won swim passes too.  What a great Easter!! 

We got plenty of dirty looks from those around us.  You know, everyone hates a winner if it makes them a loser!

We didn't really mind.  We were too busy celebrating our good fortune:)

And here they all are. The big winners of the dance party.  Jace is just beside himself to get his goggles on and go swimming.  I told him it would be a while.  The good news is that the soccer ball is getting plenty of use already!