Early Easter

At the end of February, we realized that we needed to plan ahead to arrange work schedules for Easter.  It ended up that Scott only had one Sunday off which was March 13th.  Jessica and Elessia made arrangements with their jobs and the plan was made.

At almost the last minute, the weather was so nice that I decided I wanted to do it in Grandma Hall's back yard.  She has a beautiful lawn and our kids have had many Easter Egg Hunts there over the years and I thought it would be sweet to share that with Liam and Scarlett.  So we packed up dinner and took it all over to her house Sunday evening. (She is such a great sport with all of my ideas.) It was a great time and I was so glad that we did it there with Grandma Hall.  Jessica was almost the same age as Scarlett when she did her first Easter Egg Hunt there.

Flashback pictures from that first Easter Egg Hunt:

Here is Jessica at about 23 months old grabbing an egg from a tree in Grandma's backyard.
Aunt Charon, Jake and Jessica and I checking out the eggs from that first Easter Hunt.

No more Easter Baskets for Hall children--only the grandchildren!  The egg filled hats with the books are for Liam and Scarlett.  The baskets of eggs were the eggs that Jena was going to hid in the back yard.

 And Jena did a great job hiding the eggs in fun places for little kids to grab.  It didn't take Scarlett long to figure out to look for the colorful eggs.....

However, during the hunt, she had no idea that there was something inside of the eggs (the normal collection of chocolate and toddler yogurt bites).

Liam liked banging the eggs together and being outside.  He is an outdoor kid like his mom, Jessica and Scarlett also loves outdoors which is no surprise if you know Scott!

Scarlett loves to carry baskets around on her arm so an Easter basket was right up her alley.

Early Easter means not a green yard yet but I loved this picture of Liam on the grass with the trees and sky.

 Jena wasn't looking but I love Liam's face in this picture as well.  Look at those little dimples.

 Scarlett's China woman squat!

Egg hunting is great when people carry you from egg to egg....

although Scarlett was quite happy to do it all by herself, even when she had to reach up on her tippy toes.

It was all of adventure and we all loved walking behind Scarlett or watching Liam grab an egg.

 Of course, we needed to get the picture with the grandchildren and their aunt Jena.

 Watch the purple egg.....

 Liam reaches for it.......pauses to flash a grin at all of the crazy adults trying to get all three of these people to look in the same direction.....

And then simply puts it into his basket without Scarlett even noticing it.  We were all laughing as we watched this.  Babies are so cute!

And finally the two of them smiling and looking in the same direction.  (Oh how we miss Niki and his parents, Tosha and Austen at times like this.  Niki has a book and hat on the way to Japan but it isn't quite the same as him sitting next to his two little cousins at our Early Easter Egg Hunt.)

More pictures of grandchildren cuteness---

We finally did let Scarlett open an egg and she was thrilled to discover candy in them.  Next year she might be a much slower hunter if she decides to open eggs along the way.

It is fun to be "starting over" again with some of these fun holiday things.  I think I mentioned this before but being a parent has really been worth it now that we have Scarlett, Niki and Liam in our lives.  (And we certainly love their parents, too.)

 Thanks for sharing a fun day with us.