Easter Sunday

We went to the Sunrise service this Easter Sunday... and Liane joined us for a lovely morning.  She helped me with the photography this year (she is becoming a FANTASTIC assistant!)... and got this great family pic of all of us...

She also caught this one of Riley running, and even though it's blurry, IT.IS.AWESOME.
Later on in the afternoon, we all met at Tish's house for our family party... I was in charge of the Easter Egg Hunt, and I wanted it to be a little different this year... so I decided that instead of millions of eggs full of candy and whatever, we would hide clues in the eggs. The kids would have to put together the clues to figure out where their prize (a basket of goodies like bubbles, a water bottle, squishy pen, and notepad) was hidden.
First we had to be sure they were excited... YEP.
And they were off!!! The best part of them having to find the clues was that they got to WORK TOGETHER on the whole thing. One basket, no fighting...all teamwork. 
The hardest eggs to find were the ones in plain sight! We hid all the green eggs in the grass (which was pretty tall & due for a mowing), and even the ADULTS had a hard time finding them for the kids. AWESOME.
When they found them all, it was time to crack them open and look for clues. There were 29 clues, and at first they had only found 26 of them... so they had to go back out in the yard and find the rest of the eggs!
Finally they had them all. First they had to place the cards in number order, then they flipped over the numbers to reveal the letters of the clue...
I helped them out a bit by also segmenting the cards into colored words... and they figured it out in the end, and they all went looking in David's closet for their prize!!
Loved changing things up for them and making it fun and different.