Easter Saturday with the Merrell's

The annual Easter Egg hunt has become quite the tradition over the past few years with my family. Mom and Dad hide the eggs all over yard and the fields around their house, and are usually still finding eggs months later. The pictures above are a couple of examples from 2006. This year they decided to come out to Salt Lake for the egg hunt since it is so stinking cold in Vernal and because so it was closer for most of us. We were going to eat a picnic at a park near my house and then find the eggs. In theory, this was a great idea. In reality, it was still COLD! This is the earliest Easter ever has been or ever will be for any of us living now. And this is one of the longest, wettest, and coldest winters in the past decade or more. Those two facts combine to make for a cold, and quick egg hunt.

All I had to do was mention the word "blog" and heads went down!

Vince getting Brynlie out to help keep him warm, and Sadie with a runny red nose from the cold.

Searching for eggs. To make sure that the "big kids" enjoy the egg hunt as much as the younger generation mom slips some cash in. This year she put #'s in 8 of the envelopes and if you got one of those you got the envelope that corresponded with that number. This was done since we were at a public park, and because we can't ever seem to find all of the eggs. Which is good since one of the eggs w/a number in it was never found. Some little kid would have been very lucky! The numbered eggs changed hands a few times as trades were made. Kristi and Chuck had a couple, and gave one to one of my girls, and traded one to my youngest sister Mickala for a ceramic pig. It turns out that the egg that they gave to her contained the largest prize...$100! Chuck told Kristi that she better take care of that $100 pig. But before you feel too bad for them, I gave them an egg after realizing that they had given my girls one, and it contained the other large prize of the day...$50. If we had all know just how much money Mom had put in those envelopes maybe we would have held on to those eggs a bit tighter.

Some of the eggs had a sticker on them and if you got one of those you got to exchange it for a prize that mom had. I think that's where the ceramic pig came from. Thank you mom for putting the finger paints in there...the girls had WAY too much fun with that today!


All of the family back at my house for a "family counsel" as some decisions are made regarding the future of our family. We also celebrated Meagan's birthday which was on the 21st, and Vince's, which is on the 31st. Thanks Mom and Dad for making Easter so much fun and always bringing the family together.