A day of hunting...eggs!

Saturday seemed like a blur of eggs. We started the morning, earlier than I usually do, at the Toledo Ward egg hunt. Lucky for us, the ward runs on Clarissa time so even though we were a little late they hadn't started yet because they were still awaiting her arrival. Peyton has been way more shy than usual it seems, so he kind of clung to me for the first bit, but once they started he warmed up and figured out what he was supposed to do. The eggs were all hard boiled, though, so when he threw them in the bucket he always broke them. I think his favorite part was counting them at the end and then completely squishing one in his hand.

Counting the eggs afterwards, Peyton got 8 total, too bad no one here really likes them.

After, they tried to get a picture of all the kids and Peyton did not want to do it so Dad tried to hold him and hide behind a tree, but Peyton just tried to go behind too!

When we got back from that one, Jesse went to his track meet and then when he got back we left for Morton. With all the eggs from the years past we ended up having over 500 eggs to hide, which is hard to do inside (the weather was to crappy to do it outside.) We did one for the little kids and Peyton was really starting to get the hang of it, and he didn't even care about the candy inside this time. Since we had to do three hunts total (one for little kids, one for big kids, and one for the boys) we hid the older kids and the boys' upstairs. Even after the lil kids went, we still had 450 or so eggs to hide. We tried our best to make some really hard to find because the boys are totally competitive and violent about it, but after a while we just threw them on the floor. Luckily there were no injuries this year, but Peyton hated just sitting and watching now that he knew what to do with the eggs. It was a fun day and on Sunday we had a nice ham dinner with my whole family (minus Alesha) and more goodies. I feel perpetually full and between all the egg hunts and the Easter bunny coming, I swear we have candy coming out the ying yang. Good thing I am pregnant so I can eat it all guilt free!

The kids hunt, it is blurry but you can tell Peyton was crawling on the couch for eggs!

The boys heading up the stairs, because Jesse was injured (chopped part of his finger off) he got to go first.

Jesse and Nathan are trying to push each other out of the way, boys!

All the cousins but baby Blake, I didn't get a shot of them all looking, don't know if anyone did.

All the brothers and dad with their results, they will use that number to determine the order next year (worst first!)