Excuse the weird formatting, I don't feel like fixing it.

My mom posted some cute easter egg hunt photos on her blog. I didn't take any photos with my camera, so I stole hers, heh heh.

We did some simple egg coloring this year, but first Lewis colored on the eggs with crayons... washable crayons. Now normally, I am a HUGE fan of the Crayola washable series of supplies, but in the case of colored eggs, the washable crayons don't work well. For one thing, the wax kind of comes off when you dye the eggs, and for another thing, the wax that doesn't come off in the dying process comes off on your hands when you handle the eggs. The eggs still taste the same when you eat them, though!

We couldn't do our egg hunt on Easter because Lewis was SICK and recovering from a big trip with Grandma. I wanted to let him relax for a few days, so we did the hunt on Wednesday.

He had fun finding "eggies," and he did a pretty good job collecting them! We hid about 25, and he found 10 of them before he got distracted. I think that's pretty good for a 1 year-old! He started to collect them with the egg carton, but it was too unwieldy, so he went into the kitchen and found a bowl. When the bowl got filled up with eggs, he returned to the kitchen and got a HUGE casserole dish (the kind that weighs about 5 lbs) AND its lid. Ha ha ha!

Do we look like twins in this picture??  :)

I don't have photos, but one of my mom's traditional Easter treats for us are chocolate easter nests. I made some this year. They're super easy! Just melt some chocolate (I used semisweet chocolate chips) in the microwave, and then mix in shredded coconut. Drop the mixture by spoonfuls (like cookies) onto wax paper (or aluminum foil, cookie sheet, whatever you have), and then top with "eggs" (jelly beans, or your favorite egg-shaped candies) and bunnies or chicks, if you have them. My favorite Easter jelly beans are Jolly Rancher beans! Yum! Our Target was PICKED OVER the day before Easter (that's what happens when you live in a small town), and there were no Whoppers eggs, Peeps, or pretty much any of my other traditional favorite Easter basket fillers. I got the boys each a tiny 50 cent Easter bunny (they didn't have any regular small Easter bunnies, either! All they had were the expensive ones left - Dove bar Easter bunnies, etc.) and a plastic Jelly Belly egg (I thought Lewis w ould like the little lever you use to get beans out of the egg). That's it! Small Easter basket fillers for small boys! Of course, Lewis will likely get to eat Evander's candy anyway!

I love being a mom and doing fun stuff! :) I think it's more fun than being a kid and doing it! Ha ha!