I always think of Easter as being a holiday in April but this year it landed in March. Our spring in Minnesota hasn't happened yet so an Easter Egg hunt outside is either on the snow covered lawns or in the parking lot. The Saturday morning of Easter weekend we headed over to the Grace Lutheran Church for a little Easter Egg Hunt. The weather was really cold and rainy. There were a lot of people and kids surrounding all the eggs and Talya didn't like that at all. I think she was a little overwhelmed and confused at what was going on so she didn't pick up a single egg. As two younger kids, each with a bucket full of Easter eggs, were leaving, they saw Talya crying (not because she didn't have candy but because she was grumpy). They both stopped and gave her three or four eggs each. I thought that was so nice!
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| Still not happy, even with candy filled eggs. |
Talya got a new Spring Dress from the Easter Bunny. I tried to get an adorable picture of her in her new dress and this is what I got...
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More Easter Egg Hunts
We went to the church and the kids got to find some eggs in the primary room.
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| Cute Little Bunny! |
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About a month after Easter (on another cold miserable MN spring day in April), a local church sponsored another egg hunt that's called the "Chop Drop". There are 60,000 eggs that the kids get to go find but the coolest part is they drop some from a helicopter. The eggs are empty and at the end of the hunt, you get to go turn your eggs in for a decent sized bag full of candy. We met Katie, Ali and Gavin down at Mayo High School.
Before the helicopter got there to drop the eggs, volunteers had spread 40,000 eggs onto the field. As the helicopter got to the field and started dropping more eggs, the wind from the chopper caused the empty eggs to go flying off the field. The chopper completely wiped the field clean. (It was hilarious!)
Check out the video!
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