About the middle of February the kids got a letter in the mail from Nana and Papa inviting them to the annual Easter Party at their house the day before Easter. The kids were so excited and couldn't wait - in fact they asked me daily if it was time for the Easter Party yet. Finally the day arrived and we headed off to have a whole afternoon of fun!
We started out with coloring some easter eggs. Nana was smart and set up some tables outside so all the fun coloring was out of her nice kitchen. Hailey started with pink of course.
Zach moved so fast from color to color that he was done with 3 eggs before I even got over to take a picture of him.
Everyone was having a great time!
After that the boys started playing with the toys and girls added some stickers to their colored eggs.
Where is Tate you are asking right? Well, he was up early and had a bit of a rough morning, so I passed him to his Dad to calm down while I helped outside. I came in a bit later to find him passed out on Jeremiah's lap. Although he missed out on some of the fun, it was good for him to get a nap because he was much happier the rest of the afternoon.
When the girls finished with their stickers, they did a couple of puzzles and then moved on to a relay race Nana had set up. They had to do some fun things like run back and forth with a bunny mask on ...
... and do a spoon and egg portion. Zach did great, I don't think he dropped his egg once!
Libby had a great time with her egg and spoon too and ran back and forth after all the kids.
Not long after that it was time to decorate some cupcakes - Nana had quite the spread of candy for them to put on!
Zach didn't want anything on his - unlike his brother and sister he's not into sugar.
Tate had finally woken up at this point, but he didn't want anything to do with the cupcakes (which is probably a good thing, because that would have been a huge mess) - all he wanted to do was run around and play with the balls Nana and Papa had. If you were there, you'll get a chuckle when I say that he also wanted to tell Nana he had a ball about every 5 seconds - he's crazy and I guess he wanted Nana to know that he had one of the balls and really loved it!
A little bit later it was time to do the egg hunt. All of the kids had made easter sacks earlier and were all sitting and waiting for the Dads and Uncles to hide them in the backyard.
When the were done, we unleashed the kids on the backyard and off they went finding eggs. Hailey was so cute and counted each egg and she carefully put it in her sack.
Zach was just tossing them in left and right and had to pause once or twice to count how many he had.
Tate was interested in the whole "egg hunt" idea since he was so young last year. But once he realized there was candy inside each of the eggs, it was all over! He was more than content to just open the few eggs he had instead of trying to find any others. We did eventually get him to pick up his share of the eggs.
Libby was darling finding eggs as well. She was finding eggs left and right and took time to look at them all before handing them over to her mom to put in her sack.
She's really into purse and bags lately, so she was more than thrilled to have a bag full of easter eggs all to herself - darling!
Here's our silly little one cheesing it up for the camera - had to include this picture because after a rough morning, it was good to see him in such a happy mood.
And here are my three angels - I can't believe how big they are all getting - time sure is going by fast and they are growing faster than I would like them to!
Thanks Nana and Papa for such a fun Easter Party! We all look forward to it every year. We love all the fun activities and can't wait for Easter to come around next year - WE LOVE YOU!
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