Spring Training!

Nope not talking baseball here folks, though I do dream daily of moving to a warmer location where I could have a pool in my backyard and not having to see snow one more time. We're talking about McKenzie's strict training regiment in the sport of Easter egg hunting! Easter was a big holiday for my family growing up. We celebrated with my Mom's side of the family and every year my Grandpa would host the Great Easter Egg Hunt. He would hide hundreds of eggs all across his backyard filled with candy, little toys and "silver certificates", which were little slips of paper that he typed up that could be returned to him for actual cash (coins only). He would use these certificates as a way of knowing if all his eggs had been found. I loved Easter because of the Great Easter Egg Hunt and also because we got together with all our cousins and just had fun.

I'm hoping that Easter can be as special for my kids as it was for me. Last year was McKenzie's first Easter and we had a few things working against us on the egg hunt since it was a rainy day. McKenzie wasn't walking yet and she was not feeling great so while we did have a good time it wasn't a full fledged Easter to me. This year McKenzie will be trained in the fine art of competitive egg hunting. Last year we hosted Easter with Matt's family and we had pork tacos so we decided to do a Mexican theme and called it F-Easter. This year Aunt Jennifer, Uncle Chris and cousin Claire are hosting at their house and we're having GRE-Easter (Greek) so it should be another exciting culinary experience to go along with the egg hunting!

We've been having egg hunts every day for about a week now and McKenzie is getting quite good at finding those eggs. She will also hide them for me, it's quite funny though since she usually hides all the eggs in the location of the last egg she found. I humor her and pretend to look around for a bit before finding all the eggs at once.





You can see in this last shot that is quite serious about egg hunting so if you're attending GRE-Easter be warned that a new competitor is on the scene.