Easter Pics and Vids...

Here is the Gray Family Easter Egg Hunt. It has been a tradition for some 30 years, ever since I can remember. So here's the deal. My mom would prepare hundreds of plastic eggs filling them with pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and candy and hide them all over the yard. When we were growing up, the eggs we colored and dyed were hidden along with the plastic eggs, and were part of our breakfast once the hunt was over. The grand finale was one egg that was gold, and was the special egg, that usually had one or two dollar bills in it. Whoever found the egg was hot stuff, and it was usually the hardest one to find. As we grew older, the Golden Egg had more money in it. Now that we all have kids, we still would haul them over to Grandma Gray's for the Hunt. Well, this year Grandma and Grandpa Gray went on vacation over Easter weekend, so Diedre and Dacia got together and planned and prepared the whole thing over at Rob and Diedre's place, filling all the eggs, decorating, and preparing for the breakfast. Then Diedre hid all the eggs, and decided we didn't have enough and bought and hid more. So we had Rob and Diedre with their two boys, Caleb and Peter (Willie was asleep) and Stephen, and Dacia and our boys, Jonah, Jonathan, and Spencer.

Ok, so I uploaded the pictures on the small size, in the hopes that you could see more without taking up more real estate. Oh well...Click on the photos for larger size.



The kids staring out into the backyard with barely contained anticipation. If it were me, I would say we were scoping out routes for optimum egg gathering strategies...Since it wasn't me, I think they were just looking outside thinking about all the pretty colors.



In case you missed it, Spencer is the first one out, and is stepping over the bright, pretty eggs on his way to somewhere else. Eggs are kinda hard to see because of the size of the video player.




This is the way Spencer rolls...At first I thought he was defending his egg loot...Nope. He just found himself a bigger stick to swing.







The reckoning...






Spencer, the Destroyer...