Easter 2011 Part 2 ......The Great Hunt

It was time for the hunt. An annual ritual on Easter at our house. Of couse we missed Aunt Suzie, who usually hides the eggs, but John and Doug obliged.

I guess this is them couting. Or maybe the guys just started them out this way for fun?

Whatever it was, I guess Zach didn't like it.

And so, it began.

Where could they be?

You never know what weird places they would be with Doug and John. I'm sure we'll find some as the year goes by.

I didn't see Zach get many.

Love this pic! Wonder if she feels like it sums many of her days up, at just a brief glance of the picure! ha!

Looks like they're being found.

On the picnic table.

Have no idea what's going on here? But it looks like Luke is finding something.

Even in the firepit

Such a pretty picture!

Looking high and low and even in the greenhouse box.

Grrrr....I think blogger is still figuring itself out. I did actually rotate these pics, but somehow that didn't transfer.

Another beautiful picture of Carinn.

What happens after a big Easter Egg Hunt!

Easter 2011 Part 1

Me and my girls...

Granma and Eva boo

Chloe helping set the table

Nana

My boys....minus John and Zach.

Doug and Eva. (Eva seems to really like Doug) :)

Brady Bug

Carinn and Brady

Chloe strinkin' a pose wherever she can

Chloe, Carinn and me

Doug and Carinn

Isn't this the sweetest picture ever!

Nana and Eva. They're buddies.

Brady boo. Waiting for dinner!

Attempting to get a family picture

Joel is obnoxious through the entire event. Bribery, threats, and small pinches don't do much to help.

  

John feels like being as obnoxious as Joel, but keeps it together....at least in the begining. However, any setting where sunlight hits his face, he squints, which drives my mom nuts (she's the photographer).

 

Hence, we usually end up moving to a different location with some shade (but with no shadows). By this time we've taken about 50 pictures, I'm sure.

I think this is probably our best one. Mom didn't even have to digitally switch heads on people with photoshop!

John finally lets his "nice" guard down, and starts acting how he really feels.

Definetly my all time favorite!

Randoms

Pic of the kids at mom's house.

This is our hill....ok, actually it's the cities, or maybe the Core of Engineers, or whomevers, but we love to use it! Sometimes I feel I have more rules for my yard then alot of other people....ie; don't throw the rocks (which are everywhere), don't play in the sand, don't climb my little bushes or you'll break them, don't pick the flowers (unless they're dandilions), ect, ect,  so this hill and dirt pit by it, is nice to let everyone run free on!

Joel is digging with a sword that him and his dad made.

Looking back

Somehow I wound up with two different pictures of my parent's when I downloaded my mom's card on my computer. I know the quality isn't prefect, but if you saw it clearly, you'ld see my mom looks about 13 in this picture. Really she's at least 20 :)

Still such a good looking couple! I hope I inherit some of there genes! I think this picture is just precious. I know that might be a funny word, but to me...it's precious. 

The Zachy Picture Shoot

Nana (mom) got a new camara....a NICE camara!  She has come over a couple times and just asked for one kid at a time (because she knows on any random day, I could probably only handle finding decent clothes and getting them on ONE child).  Here is Zachy's picture shoot. I think he was about 20mo here.

Looking sweet

Chloe helped, and they had a real problem with getting Zach to "pose". He felt that the only way to pose for a picture was to cock your head sideways like so.

Chloe in pink, givin' a pose of her own...love this girl!

Chloe is such a great helper!

Good times!

Bustin' a move. He is quite the dancer.

Mom must have tried some props

Caught a slight smile :)

Oh no, they caught me!

Ya!

Had to throw this homely looking boy picture in here. I'm sure they will someday laugh about basically holding hands in this one :)

Wow, even her rake matches! Now that's loving pink. Actually, we're getting less and less pink around here. I can tell Chloe is still drawn to it, but she going through the "i'm not a little girl anymore" phase, and we are re-doing her room (mostly Holly's old room stuff), in brown and gree :(  I sort of liked her room as my girly decorating outlet.