Easy Easter? Mother Nature Had It in for Us!

This Easter started out like any other. The kids woke up in the morning to find their Easter buckets filled with fun toys and their favorite candy! As you can see, this was the year of the frisbee. Each of my guys got one. Want to guess how many are on the roof?

We went to my Mom and Dad's house for a yummy Easter cookout.

We met Peter and Adriane there, with their three kiddos, Kevin, Shaylee, and Ashlee.

Someone decided to take a picture of their edible masterpeice. Are you...hungry?

After our delicious meal we decided to let our kids out to hunt their eggs. Of course, we all forgot the Easter buckets, so all the kids got to use a plastic bag. Here's where we run into a little trouble. Our little darlings got to start hunting their eggs in hurricane force winds. None of the "Easter bags" would stay vertical. It's not easy to put your newly found egg into a bag that's flying, zipping and twisting around! But, with a little help from adults and teamwork, they got those eggs in the bags!!

After about 15 minutes of wrestling with the bags and getting pelted by flying dirt and leaves, it starts to get a little annoying and my nephew, Kevin says, "This is the worst Easter egg hunt, EVER!" (I'll be laughing at that one for years!)

A few minutes after that revealing declaration, it starts to rain. It gets cold, too!

Poor Deegan and Derek, don't get to find all their eggs, before the floodgates open. I know, don't you feel sorry for them?

My neice Ashlee, gets soaked!

Then, the real fun begins! Hail! It comes down like gangbusters on my parents metal porch roof and half the kids run screaming into the house, because it's so loud! A little trauma (I mean drama,) never hurt anyone, right?

Here are a few samples that some brave soul snatched from the onslaught!

A very respectable size for a hailstone!

We're still trying to decide about this year's hunt. Memorable or miserable? What do you think?