Easter Egg Hunts

Saturday was a little crazy and we had to do some creative planning. Hallie had a soccer game at 10am and of coarse thats when the Manor Care Easter Egg hunt was which is a tradition for us. So we decided we would get everyone up and ready and head to the South Ogden hunt at 9am. We got there about 5 minutes before the hunt started after battling the crowds to find a parking spot and then hiking the 1/2 mile to the park. They had the kids separated into every 2 year age groups so Matt took Hallie to find her group and I stayed with Grace. 

After they said go the hunt lasted all of maybe 2 minutes before everyone had collected their eggs.

I think Gracie may have loved the running to get to the eggs the best we kept telling me how excited she was and squealing with delight.

 Both girls got quite a few eggs and then we needed to empty them in order to return the eggs. When we started to open them we were pretty disappointed 99% of the eggs were full of salt water taffy. Each of the girls did get an egg with a gold dollar and a couple eggs with Mcdonalds french fry coupons.

 Then we headed back to the car so Matt could take Hallie to soccer and I could take Gracie to the Manor Care hunt. We got to the care center in time to visit with old friends that still work there and then headed to line up to hear the rules. They line the residents up so they can watch the kids hunt for the eggs...they get so excited for them. The last couple years they have given each child a number that has 10 coordinating eggs. Although it can make the hunt more of just that a hunt but it is also more fun than one that lasts 30 seconds. They have way more numbers than they do kids so after everyone has about 10 minutes they let everyone know that all numbers over are free and then it is the free for all. They also do several golden eggs that have awesome prizes. We ended up with more and better candy(mostly chocolate) at the care center. While I cleaned out the eggs Gracie got to enjoy some punch and a cookie. After we cleaned out our eggs to return them Gracie had to take a good look through all her candy to pick out a few to eat.

This sweet girl had so much fun and I had a blast getting to take her. Hopefully next year it will work out so Hallie and Matt can join us.