Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Easter! I am planning another Easter post later today [God willing and the Creek don't rise!], but I wanted to get up pics from our trip to Granny and Grumpy's yesterday for an Easter Egg Hunt.

My parents LOVE doing this for the kids, and my sister and brother and his girlfriend and her daughter always come too - it is a wonderful day! The kids have so much fun!

Here are the kids coloring "real" eggs before the hunt:



Here is Monkey5 in the very act of dropping her first egg:



Waiting at the door, ready to hunt eggs!



Monkey4 finds an egg! This was VERY exciting to her this year!



Monkey1 and my sweet "niece" [not sure what to call her -she's been part of our family since she was very small and we love her dearly but my brother has not married her mother...yet!!!! Pray for them to marry soon!]



Opening the eggs after the hunt. My mom has plastic eggs and those are the ones we hide for them to find [we eat the real ones they color]. She fills the plastic eggs with little goodies and the kids have a blast opening them up afterwards and seeing what they found:



Monkey1 opening her eggs:



Monkey2 opening his eggs:



Monkey3 peeling and EATING the eggs - she knows what you really do with an egg!



And here is the post egg hunt fishing expedition in Grumpy's pond. LOL! [Don't all families fish after they hunt eggs?]. My brother is shown here helping the kids fish - he's had them fishing since they were barely old enough to hold a rod. Both Monkey2 and Monkey3 caught fish! [We threw them back].



We had a lovely lunch with my family afterwards as well and it was a great day. Then we went home and got nice and clean for Easter Sunday and went to bed!

Things were a little weird yesterday though because my husband let it slip that we were having another baby! We had not told anyone other than my sister yet and we were keeping it quiet until after 12 weeks [which is this coming week]. The kids have done a *great* job of keeping it quiet.

We were worried about my mother's reaction in particular and also we know she's going to worry herself sick so we wanted to wait as long as possible to tell her. Well, after we left my dad told my sister that my husband had said something and so my sister told them about it. She said my mom did have a very negative reaction at first and it was probably good we weren't there for it. BUT, in the end my sister talked her through it and she seemed OK by the time we left. My dad was excited, but then, I expected he would be. He adores the kids so much and had already been making comments about how sad it was that there weren't going to be any more babies after Monkey5!

BUT, if you know us personally, feel free to taunt my husband that 4 small children were able to keep a secret that he could not. LOL! ;)