Easter egg hunt video

Here's a shot of our Easter day fun.

Easter egg hunt

Greg, Chris, Felix, Geneva and Olivia seek out an egg-y treasure.

The girls in their matchy match Easter dresses wait with Jack, Lars, Leif and Gabby for the pre-hunt briefing.

I know it doesn't look too appealing this photo, but the grass is now lush and green and the trees are days away from budding.

It was warm for Easter, about 45 degrees (which feels balmy to us after such a long winter.)

After the best sermon I have ever heard in my entire life, we had thirty folks over for Easter dinner. It was a yummy potluck with ham, scalloped potatoes, butter spiral rolls, spinach salad, herbed potato salad, coconut milk sweet potatoes with curried cashews, homemade cheddar crackers, chips and homemade salsa, lemon merienge pie, mint brownies, peanut butter birds nests, cheesecake and some really bad punch. Dolores arranged a couple of hundred eggs to be hidden and we turned the kids loose on the lawn for a great hunt.

Coloring the Easter eggs

Chloe's first time coloring eggs

Naomi ponders a color choice

Chloe wanted to show how she disregards the spoon for lowering the egg

Goofy 7 year old!

18 eggs did not last long....

Spring swimming!

Geneva, Olivia, Chloe and Naomi have a swim party in the middle of the kitchen.

Naomi is in an enthusiastic, over-the-top smiling phase...

The girls got an urge to swim and being that it is still in the 30's and 40's outside, the sprinkler was out of the question. So, we compromised and brought the kiddie pool into the kitchen! I filled it with warm water, they "cooked" soup and potions then we had a bucket brigade to empty the pool of water afterwards. A foretaste of summer fun!

p.s. We have a yard full of beautiful crocuses and many awakening perenials-poppies, chives, hardy geraniums, yarrow, daylillies, lavender, lamb's ear, thyme, irises, catnip, primroses, lily-of-the-valleys, blueberries, garlic, tulips, onions, daffodils and catmint. The snow is 85% gone. Spring is coming!