Here comes Peter Cotton Tail....

pictured above: kathryn (kimberly), libby (mine), anna (kimberly), ellie (neighbor child), austin (jamie), tucker (wade), davis (nick), abby (mine), kristen (jamie) and haley (wade). not pictured:cole (nick)nick supervising austin, anna, kat and haleyroll, baby roll!
kimberly mom and abby eating twizlers that matched their outfits (sort of)
libby in an outfit her gammy got her for easter

This weekend was really fun. We started off with a big family get together/hunt that lasted late into the night. I then had to go home and finish 'smalling up' Libby's outfit (kimberly and I bought it last september - 18 mth - libby wears about a 9 mth at most, so i had to cut and cut and sew and sew). All in all, WAY better than starting from scratch - love that Amanda Remembered warehouse!! Anyway, we had a big lunch then after diving up over 200 eggs, we decided to do things a little differently. The little kids (abby, davis and kristen) would hunt eggs in the grass and the big kids got to help hide and help/watch the little ones. Abby got pretty bored about 15 eggs in and couldn't be convinced to pick up any more eggs. So, off to the next activity which was.....wasting 4 dozen raw eggs. There are starving kids all over the world, but they weren't getting in the way of 8 kids that had permission to make a MESS!! We decided to play games while the eggs were being hidden for the big kids. First event was egg toss. Not too messy, except in the end where the kids wanted to prove the eggs would break and began to bust them open/play with them. Then we moved to spoon race - a tight finish, but Ellie came in over the finish line because Tucker wasn't listening to where the race ended. He stopped 5 feet from the finish and she kept going:-) Next was the egg roll (pictured above). They had so much fun and did really well - no complaints about getting dirty/eggie/allergic reactions to grass (love you Kat). I love those kids. Tucker won that one - he was so fast i couldn't get a picture of him once he got started. Davis took the easy way and ran with his...I told he and abby that all rules were off if they were under 3. This made Haley upset..."because I am 6" she told me. Then we moved back to the front of the house for the big kids hunt. We wanted to make the hunt challenging this year so the older kids would have more fun and it would take longer. We put names on a few eggs for each kid and also hid the eggs in the woods over a large (LARGE) area. Well, someone should have paid more attention to the large area and the egg putter outers because after 20 minutes only 1/2 the eggs were found and most kids had none to one egg with their name on it. It was pretty funny though. We learned there is a fine line between challenging and downright frustrating. I am sure we'll be finding eggs in mom and dad's yard for months to come! We had a great day and as wade and kristi left she said, "see you at the next get together". I was like, "YES! Halloween is only 6 mths away!!".

We missed Richard, Wren, Kinley and Logan and I'm glad they are back safe - sorry about the flooding! Also, my Grandmother (Nanny Poo) and Aunt Pam just got back tonight from Italy!! We are all glad for their safe return and can't wait to hear all about their week long adventures, how the diet coke tasted, and if Nanny will ever forgive Pam for losing her in a restaurant.