We spend Easter again at my mom's, minus Jordan due to his trip to India. :( Easter is a big deal in my family and we take it very seriously. Most people love Easter because of the great spiritual focus of Christ's resurrection. Please don't get me wrong, we do. Easter is a special holiday focused on the life of Christ. However, we also have a HUGE easter egg hunt. It is so insane that we have contemplated doing it on Saturday, as to not take away from the true focus of Easter.
My mom puts on the easter egg hunt every year and I swear it gets more intense and crazy every year. My siblings and I look forward to easter more than Christmas! We have so much fun! The Hunt, as we call it, has everything from eggs, giftcards, a raffle, prize bags, a bronze, silver, and gold egg, and much much more.
Every year The Hunt has a theme. This year the theme was "may the odds be ever in your favor", focused on the Hunger Games. We were each given a number before going out into the backyard. We were told to touch nothing but to find the circle with our number on it and stand on it. We each found our number and waited, eyeing all the prizes, bags, tickets, etc displayed all over the lawn. Mom then handed us colored dots, explaining that when she said "go", we were to run to the cornucopia to retrieve a basket, which we would use to gather eggs later. We could use the dots, while trying to get a basket, to stick on others, which would "injure" them.
Mom said "go" and it was a full out brawl for a good basket at the cornucopia. There was a basket for every person, but some were larger than others. There were baskets as big as a laundry basket and as small as a plate. It was seriously hilarious! After getting our baskets we all were sent back to our numbered circles, to assess who had been "injured" by stickers. Most of us had one, maybe 2 stickers. However poor Mark, the newest married-in addition to the family, was completely plastered with stickers! :)
By this point we were all laughing hysterically. Looking around, James, the biggest man in the family, was holding the tiniest little easter basket you have ever seen. Jake, my 18 year old brother, was holding an egg tray, used to hold deviled eggs. Bubba, my 16 year old brother had a laundry basket that was seriously huge, and ridiculous to carry around. The rest of us made out with pretty normal sized bags and baskets.
After composing ourselves, Mom said "go" and the Hunt was on! Everyone was running, scooping, hunting. There were eggs everywhere! However, while trying to get eggs you have to be aware of other events going on. This year there was the Lollipop Pick a Lilly, the Marvelous Magnetic Mansion, and the Robot Zone. It would take a lot of time to explain each section and the true intensity of the Hunt, but I think you get the basic idea.......it's insane!
Overall, the reason I love The Hunt is not because of the insane prizes, it is because of my mom. She puts so much work, for months, into The Hunt. She spends so much time preparing for The Hunt because she loves us. She loves to watch us and loves how much we love it! She loves the memories! Some of my best, most favorite memories growing up are of The Hunt, and they are all thanks to my mom.
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