Happy Easter!

     Owen had quite the Easter experience this year - 5 Easter egg hunts! He's a pro now! The first one was the Thursday before Easter,  at his normal day care (Amy). He was in charge of getting all of the blue and green eggs, and his friend Emmalyn was in charge of getting the pink and purple. Apparently he had fun because he kept talking about finding eggs by the little tree.

     Then on Friday, Owen went to his previous daycare (we switched at the beginning of this year because our lady, Johnna, had a baby and moved) because Amy was closed. Owen was pretty excited to go see his old friends, whom he remembers pretty well because Johnna gave him a photo album for Christmas. Anyway, Johnna was planning an Easter egg hunt for that day in her HUGE backyard, and hid something like 105 eggs! For 3 kids! She said he found 24 eggs, but was getting kind of distracted because she has a swing set in her yard and he LOVES to swing and slide. But he had a GREAT time!

      Next up was the Easter egg hunt in Elkader at the city park. LOTS of kids showed up! We got there about 10 minutes early, which ended up being a bad thing, because all Owen wanted to do was play on the playground equipment! He was crying and kicking and screaming, but we made him wait. We also made him take a picture with the Easter Bunny - he didn't think too much of that!

     They finally started, and for the kids 1st grade and under, it wasn't really an egg hunt, but more of a pick up as much candy from the ground as you can find, which I thought was kind of dumb because eggs are much easier to find! Oh well, he was having a good time and even shared his candy with us.

    When the candy had all been picked up, we headed over to the playground for a while.

Weee!

   Later that night, it was time to color eggs. He had colored some at Amy's house, too, so knew just what to do. He'd drop them right in and tell me when they were done, or if they needed to go in a different color, too. He was pretty upset when there were no more to dye!

Boppa had to make a DOT orange egg

Ryan and I had fun coloring eggs too!

    That night, the Easter Bunny came to Nana and Boppa's house and hid his basket in the house and his eggs outside, so Owen had to search! We directed him around the house, telling him to look in the bathroom, the office, in the corners, etc, until he found his basket hiding in the corner of the dining room. The  bunny brought him candy, a Tow Mater shirt and an Elmo movie. Then we headed to the yard to find all the eggs! He did an awesome job!

     Then, this last weekend, we had our first camping trip (in our new camper! More about that some other time.) and since we hadn't seen Ryan's family for Easter and three of his cousins were camping, too, we had one last Easter egg hunt at the campground. They all had a great time, but now we have TOO MUCH CANDY! : )

   This weekend Owen is off to see his cousins with Nana and Boppa in Omaha, and then on Monday is starting back up at his "old" daycare with Johnna because Amy got a new job. Owen will miss his girlfriend Emmalyn, but I think will be happy to get to see his buddies Zadyn and Alex again and hang with the boys!