Flashlight Egg Hunt

We are freezing!

Our little town has a flashlight egg hunt every year for the kiddos. This was the first year that Audrey was old enough to participate. The children are divided into groups by age and each group is given a specific area to hunt. Each child brings a basket and a flashlight to help them hunt the eggs. Audrey's group of 2, 3, and 4 year old's was a large group!

This egg hunt was kind of crazy. The parents went a little nutty trying to get eggs for their children. The picture above is of the field of eggs. You can see how they have it divided for each age group. The first section was for Audrey's group. Everyone lined up along the perimeter of the field and waited for the announcer to blow the start horn.  It was a complete mad-house. Parents were running after those eggs and dragging their poor children along behind them. You would have thought that each egg contained a gold nugget rather than a jelly bean!

This is sweet Audrey before the horn blew. She was thinking she was going to run out there and find her some eggs! Poor thing didn't realize that Daddy would have to have his boxing gloves on if she was going to be able to come out of there with any!

Thankfully, Audrey's sweet friend, Lyric, was able to find two eggs. TWO people! Yes, just two! She was kind and shared one of her eggs with Audrey. That made Audrey's day!

This picture is of Clay after the hunt. He's laughing over how crazy all the parents were! We've decided that this was probably our last flashlight egg hunt but if we are to ever go to another one, we will bring our own eggs with us for our children to find!!

Here's Audrey at the end of the hunt. She's running around singing and playing. She was oblivious to the nut jobs all around her. :D

This was Shelby Claire's reaction to her first flashlight egg hunt. She thought it was ridiculous just like her Momma and Daddy did!