Easter Baskets

We were hoping to have time for the kids to find their Easter baskets before church, but that didn’t pan out (Eli slept until about 45 minutes before we were supposed to leave), so we had the kids search for their baskets when we got home from the service. Eli was all in to it of course, while Matea wasn’t sure what was going on. Eli found Matea’s first (hidden by the workbench) but had to really look hard to find his basket (hidden behind the fort he’d made out of pillows the night before).

Once they found them they dug in (and then Matea got interested). I knew they’d be getting lots of candy from the egg hunts, so they only had one thing of candy in their baskets and the rest were little things I’d picked up for them over the last few months and hidden away. Eli liked his little Lego set best of all I think (and his Skittles egg). Jon grew up having to search for his Easter basket, and he had such fun memories of it that I’m happy we can pass that tradition on to our kids. And I can’t wait to make the hiding places super hard for them as they get older. :)

What are we doing?

Eli found Matea’s!

“COME HERE MATEA!”

Matea got “Ms” as she calls them – M&M‘s.

Sheep stickers with googly eyes – so Matea. :)

Anything more in there, Mom?

Eli looked everywhere . . . not there . . .

Nope, not there either. . .

It couldn’t be under the pillows, could it?

I’ve never seen pillows fly so fast!

FOUND IT!

“Hot Wheels socks! Sweet dude!”

Spiderman stickers are always a hit.

A Skittles egg, ooooohh!

I like my basket. :)