EGGstra Special!!

Easter Morning... The Bunny came!!!

Oh how we love Easter time around here! That's no secret at this point huh?!? There is always so much to do, and of course we have SO much fun doing it! This year was EGGstra special. The boys had quite a few egg hunts, decorated eggs of course and played with eggs for an entire month! Let's just say their favorite activity for the past month was playing hide and seek with plastic eggs around the house!! Oh, and let's not forget about how much they loved the Easter Bunny. Not only did the boys get lots of fun goodies from the Easter Bunny, they got to see him and talk to him a couple of different times which they thought was super cool. Maybe that's why he was so good to them! As you can tell from the picture above, the boys loved making a huge mess with their new goodies from the Easter Bunny! I have never gotten them one of those huge fancy wicker baskets, so the Easter Bunny has to get creative at our house and put things around their tiny baskets. Of course Daddy and I got up a little early and saw what the bunny had brought them and starting making bets on what they would go after first...

Daddy correctly predicted Sawyer would go straight for his new ball...

Although it was all the way in the back behind everything else.
See it behind the yellow chick ball?!?

He also thoroughly enjoyed playing with his
new chick punch balloon with Daddy!!!

And apparently loved this new Easter rubber ducky!

We were both very certain Hayden would go straight
for the new super fast pull back cars!

Too bad we were both very wrong. He went
strait for his new ball just like Sawyer!
These boys love new balls!

He did quickly make it over to the cars though...

And was extremely happy with them when he got his hands on them!

I guess the Bunny got the memo that the boys love them some movies...

I think I like the expression on Sawyer's face as much
as the one on Hayden's! Yay for new movies!:)

Running to the DVD player to start his new movie!

I'm pretty sure we are close to owning every boyish Disney movie out on DVD(maybe even a few girly ones for Momma!), but I guess the Easter Bunny found a couple we didn't have! Time to start watching those for the next two weeks until their ready to switch to another one! For those of you wondering, YES they will actually sit through an entire movie. IF they are in the mood!!! If you need them to or want them to, not so much, but if they want to... absolutely! This little collage pretty much sums up Easter morning for us...

Thank you Easter Bunny! We had so much fun!

So that summed up the morning, but look what the Easter Bunny left for the boys outside...

Yay! A sand and water table!

Of course Hayden bypassed all of the eggs the bunny left
in the grass and went straight for the ones in the sand!!

It looks like they will be having lots of fun
with their new table this summer!:)

Daddy had to work Easter day, but don't worry... I still managed to get him to take a family Easter pic with us!!!

Happy Easter 2012!

As if the Easter Bunny hadn't done enough, the boys even got a little surprise in the mail from Auntie Tiz and Uncle Ball!

Can you tell how much they LOVE getting mail?!?
They were so excited to get
into their package!

Oh, and how could I forget to mention the new Sonic game the Easter Bunny brought Hayden? He was SO excited! Almost as excited as Daddy!! They had a great time playing with it together before bed...

This is what Hayden calls FUN!!!

Remember how I told you they loved seeing the Easter Bunny this year?!?

You would have never guessed by this picture huh?!?

They probably saw the bunny at least 5 times throughout the season, but chose to act like they weren't too thrilled with him during their little photo shoot. Truth be told, this was actually the very first time we took them to see the bunny. You know, the planned time. The time you get them all dressed up and ready to go see the bunny. The important time. What child wants to cooperate during that time?!? I certainly learned one thing this season... let them go see the bunny a couple of times first before you try to get their picture with him! All of the other times we were out and saw Mr. Bunny unplanned they ran up to him and hugged him, gave him high five, chatted with him... LOVED him. Just not the planned time. As a matter of fact, we were at the mall earlier this week and Hayden said, "Let's go see the Bunny Mom." Of course we couldn't because he had already gone to his home until next year, but don't you worry this Momma will never make the planned visit mistake again. Next year the "planned" visit with the Easter Bunny will be a lot more UNplanned!

Kind of like this picture of Hayden throwing
his Easter basket full of eggs up in the air!

The unplanned stuff always turns out the best. That picture was after one of our many egg hunts that you can read all about here...

Happy Hunting!

It includes our neighborhood hunt...

The little group of neighborhood kids that just keeps growing and growing!

Our big family hunt...

Grandaddy helping the boys check out their eggs!

Hayden's school hunt...

Can you tell he was more than ready to find those eggs?!?

And even some pictures like this...

So fun!

This post was long enough without adding all the hunt pictures into it also! Speaking of long, I couldn't add the egg dying or decorating pics to this post either, but it went a little something like this...

We love "tolorin' us some eggs!"

And decorating them just adds to the fun!

You can read all about our fun with making eggs here...

Fun with Eggs...

Thank goodness for separate posts huh?!? That would have been the longest post EVER. You know I can't ever decide which pictures to leave out! Speaking of pictures, you know I couldn't let Easter come and go without taking some "Easter" pics of them right? You can find that post here...

Those are some good lookin' little men!!!

But of course I couldn't leave you without a little sneak at their cute little faces!

Hilarious right?!? Gosh, I love them!

Happy Easter Everyone!

We hope you had a fun filled month like we did!

Happy Hunting!

The Great Egg Release 2012!

The boys had so much fun hunting Easter Eggs this year. It was just a season full of happy hunting! Oh, and throwing baskets full of Easter Eggs was super fun as well!!! We had quite a few different egg hunts, and to be honest the boys would have been happy had we had a few more! They could not get enough of it. We hunted eggs around the house, had a neighborhood egg hunt, a school egg hunt, the bunny left us eggs to hunt, and we had our big family egg hunt. Talk about a lot of eggs! Walmart or Target may not see me back for those little plastic eggs for a few more years!:) Although we had "hunted" a few eggs around the house, Hayden's school egg hunt was our first "official" hunt of the year and boy was it fun...

He was just a little excited to find him some eggs!

They did a really good job with the hunt. Each of the parents brought in some eggs and hid them on the playground while the teachers kept the kids in the classrooms. A couple of classrooms would come out at a time to let the kids hunt, and the teachers had told them how many eggs to look for. I like doing it this way because not only do all the kids get around the same number of eggs, but it's educational at the same time. You know I love to hide some education in my fun!! As you can tell, Hayden wasn't shy at all about finding his eggs. He ran straight out of the door and never stopped running or smiling the entire time. He even let Sawyer help him with a few of his eggs. It was super sweet! We did have to stop and count his eggs because he had gotten a few too many, but that was the "school" part I actually helped him enjoy! Hayden did a great job with his counting and had no problem letting the adults hide a few of his "extra" eggs for other kids to be able to find. It was great!

Finding his eggs!

After the hunt, the kids went back to their classroom to get ready for the Easter Hat Parade. Although Hayden attended this school last year for Mother's Morning Out, he hadn't participated in the hat parade before, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. He had been given an assignment to create an Easter hat for this parade a couple of weeks back and this is what we came up with...

Little Hayden Cottontail!

Off he goes!

I loved the way it ended up turning out, and Hayden did a great job making it. He helped with pretty much all aspects of the hat, including going to the store and picking out a hat. That part was actually the hardest! I probably showed him 10 different hats before he finally said this one would be okay. I thought the picking out the decorations was going to be much easier because he had specific things he wanted on it. From the beginning he had said he wanted baby chicks, eggs and bunnies, so off to Michaels we went. Let's just say it wasn't quite as easy as I had thought it would be. We had to go to almost every craft store in Alpharetta/Cumming before we were pleased with the materials we ended up with. He would like something and I wouldn't, I would like something and he wouldn't... you know the drill. Finally after about 2 hours and what felt like 10 different stops we were both happy and Sawyer had picked up a few things along the way! Once home for the afternoon we started on the hat making...

Busy at work!

Can you tell he had fun with the process?!?

Hayden loved when the baby chicks stayed where he wanted them!

Proud of all his hard work!:)

The final product!

Hayden helped with pretty much the entire hat. I put the ears on when he was napping, but other than that he was right there making his hat. It was a fun thing to do together, and the actual parade was super cute!

Walking and waiving in the hat parade!

This is what Sawyer did the entire time while waiting on the
parade to begin. I was chasing him like a mad woman!
I guess he's just getting himself ready
for his first hat parade!

After the parade they had the kids a little Easter party in their classrooms which thrilled Hayden to pieces. He loves when we get to come see what he does at school!

He loves reading books with Ms. Allie!

And of course LOVES snack time!

We love our days when we get to go be a part of Hayden's school day! Soon after the Easter events at school, we had our annual neighborhood egg hunt. I guess it's more like a cul-de-sac egg hunt, because we never actually make it to the big neighborhood hunt, but it's a hunt with neighbors any way you look at it! The kids continue to multiply...

Ready for their hunt to start!

We have been making this same picture of all of them for the last 3 years, and I hope we continue to make it for as long as we do this little hunt for them. It is fun to watch the group get bigger and bigger... in numbers and size! As you can tell from the picture, Sawyer wasn't too thrilled to be taking this picture. It's always difficult to get all of the kids to look at the 10 cameras pointing towards them, and there's always at least one who can't take it. Usually that one has Ronn as a last name! To be honest Sawyer didn't have a great time this whole entire hunt. He had lots of fun at all of his other hunts, but this one was just not for him. We never could really figure out what was wrong with him, but once we made it to our backyard and he started playing things started to turn up. Maybe he just didn't want to be with a crowd that day?!?

Standing at the fence and talking with Bennett was just what he needed!

He did still manage to find a couple eggs...

This picture cracks me up. I guess there's an interesting egg he has
spotted in front of him that has captured his attention enough
to go ahead and get him to bend down to get it!:)

And this one looked so good he decided to open it up right away!

Hayden was able to find quite a few eggs
despite the Sawyer meltdown!

One which was found in a bed of flowers while
taking a break from his Easter sucker!

He had a great time at the hunt!

And found "a bunch" of eggs according to him!:)

Of course, he made sure I saw each and every one he found!

Having so much fun hunting!

Having so much fun opening!:)

Both boys really enjoyed dumping out their
eggs and finding out what was inside!

I don't know what got them so tickled about the process,
but it sure made for a cute picture!

The boys weren't too into this family pic!

The Mommy/Son pics were super fun though!

This was taken during one of our many inside egg hunts!

"Whoa!" he was saying. "A ball!"

Which he took to show to Hayden who in
turn put it in his mouth! Oh, boys!

Now on to actual Easter day. On Easter, we had our big family egg hunt down in Barnesville, which was super fun for the boys. I always look forward to going each year because they always have the best time. Daddy had to work this year, so he couldn't come with us, but Grandaddy got to make the trip with us. When we got there we ate a great big lunch and then let the kids hunt hundreds of eggs. This year Hayden even found the special golden egg. He was super excited. So excited we actually had to make a stop at Walmart on our way home so he could spend his prize egg money! It was really cute!

Our attempt at getting a pic of all the 2nd cousins!

Hayden and Halo's silly pic!

I love this picture of Hayden picking up an egg.
Sometimes it's the details I love the most!

Sawyer wanted this egg so bad he climbed a little hill for it!

An ant hill that is. And boy did he ever pay the price. It was soon after this that he started screaming at the top of his lungs. As you can imagine Grandaddy and I were doing all we could to figure out what was wrong, and finally after him kicking me 100 times we decided to look down. Ants were all over him from his ankles down. Poor baby. Who hides an egg in an ant hill anyways?!? I felt so bad for him, but he was much better once we got all the ants off of him. He still has a few little bite marks on his sensitive little legs now, but they are fading. Note to all egg hiders... please be cautious where you hide eggs, ant hills are not toddlers friends!

I caught Hayden doing this when he realized the golden
egg he found was actually the prize egg.
I'd say he was a wee bit excited!

He was nice enough to let his brother open it up.
After he had already done it once of course!

Sawyer thought it was the best thing ever!

And Hayden immediately put the money he won in his pocket
so he could go buy him a new toy. Just what he needed!

This was after the hunt was over, but they are running
like they have something to find!

They were headed to help Sawyer do more of this...

Look through their eggs of course!

I think they did this for a good 10 minutes, and loved
every single second of it. I just love this
picture of them with Grandaddy!

After the family egg hunt, we headed back to Grandaddy's house for the rest of the afternoon. Would you believe the Easter Bunny even made a stop by his house? That is one busy bunny huh?!? Talk about some lucky boys! Of course we spent most of our time outside...

Where the boys had tons of fun with their new ball!

Kinda looks like he's a basketball player
going down the court huh?!?

Aren't they cute?!?

They sure had fun together!

This was Sawyer practicing his running skills down a ramp!

And this is Hayden going right down behind him!:)

Peek-a-boo!

And of course, although Daddy had to work most of the day, I still managed to talk him into a few family Easter pictures on actual Easter Day! So glad he was up for it! Love all my boys!

So sweet!

Love!

Happy Easter 2012!