Egg-Cellent Easter Fun

Our church is a large urban congregation and thus the majority of our property is...well, asphalt. Which is great for parking hundreds of cars on Sunday morning but not so great for Easter Egg hunts. We have a small courtyard with a great playground for the kids but it can't accommodate all the kids who show up for an egg hunt.

Fortunately we live in a city with some really great parks. We knew the hunt was to begin at 10 a.m. sharp so we arrived about 20 minutes early. The girls had a blast playing on the playground until the other kids showed up. (The ones whose mothers aren't horribly Type-A.)

The big girls took off running. I barely had time to photograph them on their egg pursuits.

They seemed to be pretty set in the hunting department.

And all their work paid off in training Allie for her first real egg hunt. She was a pro.

She ended up with 14 eggs! Way more than her sisters were able to find. She would spot one, pick it up and deposit it in her basket.

After the hunt they went through all their eggs which were filled with really awesome candy and stickers.

Then Jamie and Anastasia proved their prowess at the Egg Toss. Despite a three-hop on the ground, their raw egg remained unscathed through the competition. (There was a rumbling from one of the other parents that Team Lamar had a "hard-boiled" egg, but I assure you...it was very much raw.)

It was a beautiful morning and a wonderful way to get our Easter weekend fully underway!