We are still hiding the kids Easter Baskets. Ever since they were little, we would hide their basket and they would have to search the house (or outside) to find their treats. Before the rooster cock- a - doodle do's, little Easter feet scurried around the house searching for treats. If they could not find their baskets.....no candy. The kids really looked forward to this Easter tradition. Each year they always say "Daddy, next year hide it hard, don't hide it so easy!!", but when they can not find it the must resort to the "hot or cold" technique. This can be a humiliating part of the hunt... as a parent I enjoy watching the Hot or Cold.
About 5 minutes later, Heather actually found her basket...I guess you can imagine what her bedroom looked like, since it took her that long inside her little bedroom to find her basket!
Luckily, all baskets were eventually found, and Rich and I were actually surprised by the kids with our own Easter baskets hidden.
Later that day we had Jessica and Dan's family, and Kim and Greg's family over for dinner and an Easter Candy hunt. We did have one little alteration to our afternoon Easter hunt. There was a little resistance but after a little persuasion the all bought into it. The new change was for for kids over the age of 3. They had to partner up, one partner was blind folded, the other had to direct but not touch any candy. Oh my goodness, this was the funniest candy hunt I have seen! We had wrestling, running into trees, walls, crawling on the ground, crawling over each other, and even a little cheating by those who could see because they were getting frustrated by their partner.
We had a great Easter with all our family.
