Easter Weekend

We enjoyed a long weekend starting on Friday. The weather here has been nice, but already much too hot at 80 and 85. The locals all say that this is beautiful, cool weather but we are used to a much cooler Spring. The pictures will tell the story of our Easter weekend.




I started off the weekend by trying to make Scott homemade bread for Easter. Since I don't have a bread machine I used the hook on our Kitchen-Aid. The bread turned out great! Here is the recipe.

Avery went to 4 egg hunts this year. By the end he was finally getting the hang of it.

The first hunt was with his preschool class.


The second was at the Mom's Club hunt. We had a nice picnic and then let the children hunt for eggs.


For the third hunt we went to Serenbe Farms. It was a competitive hunt so Avery only ended up with 5 eggs but he had fun. They hid the eggs along their wooded trails. It was a really pretty hike looking for them. They also had animals for us to pet and feed.


I have no idea why they colored their chicks.


I thought these chicks were cute. It's just hard-boiled eggs, a cut carrot and chocolate sprinkles. I found the idea on Crafty Crow.


We used a fun monster kit to decorate our eggs this year. Avery was quite excited. This was the first year he really got into decorating.


Alia just played with the fuzz we used for hair.


Our monsters



The last hunt we did was at our house. Earlier in the week Scott had Avery take pictures around the yard of a golden egg hidden in different spots. He printed those pictures off and used them as clues to find each of the eggs.


I really liked this picture, look closely who do you see?


Finding an egg and the next picture clue. This one is a picture of the hammock.


We had an egg hiding in this hole not knowing it was the frog's home. When Avery grabbed the egg out, the frog tried to keep it. We have it on video and I will post that next.


This was Avery's prize at the end of the hunt. He was quite excited for the dragon.


Alia found her basket!


Alia being cute. I love these flowers! I think they are purple phlox.

We also took advantage of the long weekend and took on a house project. Thanks to Tony's graphic skills we were able to choose the perfect color to match the rest of the house. I was nervous to paint the walls the purple color but it looks good. See for yourselves...

Before


After