Egg Hunt

Easter Morning 2011

The Easter came to The McFarland house and sure did leave a mess, thank goodness I didn't find poop on the floor!

Helicopter Egg Drop

A local church was putting on an egg drop for the kids on Saturday.  Jessica, PapaMom and the boys came out to go to it with us.  We got there on time to register and had to wait around an hour for it to begin.  It was at the middle school on the athletic field.  It had rained the night before so you can only imagine how muddy it was.  We met up with Tim, Angie and Chloe and waited for the drop to begin.  The longer we waited the more people showed up.  Finally we heard the helicopter in the distance, it hovered above the field and dropped thousands of plastic Easter eggs.  Once it flew off the horn blew for the kids to begin getting the eggs.  The crowds moved in, we searched the ground, squeezed further into the crowd, searched the ground and......did not find one egg!!  Aiden cried for a good five minutes as kids with baskets full of eggs walked by.  All around kids were crying with empty baskets.  We met back up with Kyle and David who each had found one egg.  They were such good big cousin and gave their eggs to Aiden and Owen.  Next year.....we won't be doing the egg drop.

After reading about the event online I found out the church expected 4,000 kids more than 8,000 showed up.  Add parents to that number and there were A LOT of people there.

Coloring Easter Eggs

I bought a new kit this year to color eggs, it was a tye dye kit and it was horrible!  It was taking forever, one egg at a time, and the colors weren't very bright.  It dawned on me I still had the egg spinner from last year in the basement, so I went down to look for it.  Of course while I was down there Owen spilled the green dye all over the counter, good thing he's so cute.  The boys had a lot more fun with the spinner and the eggs turned out beautiful. 

Popsicles

It hit 83 yesterday, you know what that means......POPSICLES!!

Mr. Goofy

I love those goofy faces that Aiden makes! It's hard to find pictures lately without some kind of goofy grin!

Colored Bubbles

 






Dear Crayola,
Your new colored bubbles are very pretty. I have to say I'm surprised how vibrant the bubbles were when the kids blew them. But I have to believe the inventors of this product do not in fact have children themselves. These were THE messiest thing I think they have ever played with!! Everywhere the bubbles land they leave a little "love". The driveway, the hood of the car and the siding on the house do not apprieciate said "love". These will only be played at Grandma's while the children are naked from now on.

Sincerely,
Lindsey

Blue Eyes

Owen has the most beautiful blue eyes and long lashes (which make me jealous). I joke with Gary that the next time I go to the make-up counter I'm bringing Owen with me so they can find me lipstick that matches his lips!

Spring Zoo

 We LOVE the zoo! I could go 100 times and it never gets old. The weather man promised 60 and sunny, what we really got was 45 and cloudy but that didn't matter the boys had fun anyway. We even got Papamom to tag along. It was Luke's first visit and he got excited seeing the animals, the few he saw while he wasn't napping.

Hiking

The boys have really enjoyed going hiking in the evenings.  Owen has to pick up every stick and every rock and try to carry them all with him.  Gary showed the boys how to start a fire this last time, they thought that was pretty cool.