All Things Ryan: All Things Easter--2009

Even though it already seems like ages ago, I am determined to get this Easter post finished! My word. I have no excuses for my outdated blog. No good ones anyway. None that the rest of you don't have, too. Life is just...well...busy these days. Seems like we've had a lot to deal with and work thru lately. Some good things and some downright sucky things. But the good news is that it's almost the end of April (not that I'm wishing my days away) and that means that May is just around the corner...hopefully waiting for us with oodles of sunshine because frankly, I'm tired of being inside.

But I digress. Back to Easter. It was a busy but really fun weekend. Soccer kept us from attending our favorite community egg hunt, so we planned a couple of our own. The first one was with our neighbors. It has become a tradition. And this year there was 1 more hunter in the mix--sweet Brooklynn. She is already an egg hunting pro!

This was Nathan's year to be all about the candy on the inside. The eggs themselves? He had no time (or need) for them and discarded them along the way. Ha! So funny.

Grayson was all about swiftness. And eggs. A lot of eggs.

Now if this picture doesn't scream "sweet", then I don't know what does.

Happy girl.

Oh yeah. Wondering why you haven't seen any shots of Molly yet? This is why:

The poor girl was OUT! And there was no waking her up. We tried. Thank goodness there was a second egg hunt yet to come...

The first annual playgroup egg hunt took place next door to our house on Sarri and Joel's empty lot. Sarri was the organizer and egg hider extraordinaire. Dave had a less glamorous position--pooper scooper. (Obnoxious neighborhood dogs.)

My 3 favorite 3 year-olds.

16 hunters in all, including little Aiden--a first-timer. :)

Molly's wild about "her" Aiden.

Ready...Set...

Hunt!

Happy hunters...

...who never miss a "good-bye". :)

And then if that wasn't enough for 1 day, we followed egg hunting with egg dying. Tradition, ya know. But you can imagine that after a soccer game and 2 egg hunts, things went from good...to bad...to pretty ugly! But hey, at least in the pictures it looks like they're having fun!

Hmmm, I do believe that I get this shot of Grayson every year. Mr. Cheesey!

Precious, I know. Glitter glue and bead egg kit? Not such a great find after all. Mostly just annoying and messy.

But even though 2 kids went to bed tired and cranky, the Easter Bunny still paid a visit. Phew.