McDonnell Easter Egg Hunt 2015

We had a fabulous time at the annual McDonnell Easter Egg Hunt! So happy our dear friends work so hard to make this happen! As always, Sang out did herself, and we had an awesome Saturday morning hunting eggs and playing with friends!

Similar to last year (but with more kids!), there was a wall dedicated to the egg-color assignments for the hunt. So each kid had an egg with their picture, and a sample of the eggs they would be hunting taped next to their picture.  And each kid had 20 eggs to hunt! SO CUTE!

The boys finding their eggs!

(Ellie didn't have an egg taped as she can't hunt yet!)
Barrett and Ellie relaxing post-bottle while we get ready to go hunt eggs... 
The Egg hunt is about to start... Time for all the kids to find theirs.... 
They were instructed to pull off their egg and put it in their basket so they could remember what they were hunting! 

Lined up at the door and ready to go! 
But not before the crazy moms insisted on a group shot! 13 egg hunters!

Evan was a fairly slow hunter in his boots and Batman attire- but mostly because he would not stop eating candy!! Every time he picked up an egg, he had to open it right away and eat what ever he could find!


LJ helped Evan locate many of his eggs!
Sweet brothers! 
 LJ, on the other hand, hunted all his eggs so fast! He ended up hunting 2 colors since someone didn't show up, and their eggs were already out! He had so much fun!
 Ellie in her new go-pod watching all the activities!
Sorting through all our eggs, checking out our prizes, and Evan still eating candy!!


 Time for confetti eggs!!!


  Shots of the chaos!
 Evan went inside during all the excitement, so I went to get him. He was all alone at the food table stuffing more donut holes into his mouth! Hahah! Priorities!

When Evan saw what we were doing, he got on-board! Dad was his first victim- and LJ was very excited to cheer him on!

 Ben got me!
 And then LJ!
Evan- aka Batman... He has not taken this mask or cape off for weeks! 


Thanks so much for hosting another wonderful celebration McDonnell Family!!! So grateful for your friendship!!! 

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