Easter

Michael and I spent Easter in Wenatchee with my family. Ali and Chris came over to help set up the insane easter egg hunt.

They created an egg map as we hid each egg so we could make sure they had found them all. We had three separate egg hunts.

One was for the youngest, Lev. The eggs were in plain sight so we could easily lead him to each one. This sort of worked, but he would get distracted by what he found and not realize he was supposed to keep looking.

The next one was for Lucien and Yevnika. These eggs were still fairly visible, but a little more challenging. I would say we hid them in normal places and they were all found quickly enough.

The last egg hunt was for the two older boys Zhorik and Efrem. Zhorik had recently bought a very nice metal detector so we told him to bring it that Sunday. We decided bury some of the eggs with coins in them and throw some coins out into the grass so he could detect them and have to dig for them. We only did this with about five eggs so that there were plenty others for Efrem to find.
The rest were hid in very difficult places throughout the backyard. We left most in sight, but there were a couple that they just had to look everywhere for.
Unfortunately, our plans with the metal detector didn't work as well as we had hoped, because it would pick up lots of different metals and confuse Zhorik and in some cases us as to where exactly he was supposed to dig. We eventually decided to finish the hunt after lunch as it was taking so long :)
I don't know if these videos will work, but these are some that Michael took of the hunt.