Family Easter Party

A new baby colt was born right before the party

the kids were so excited to get to see a baby be born

Sorting horses

With everyone home for the party
my Dad decided to put the grandkids to work : )

Kabree and Justice

Sophi, Titan and Matty

Shay, Tiffany and Haylee

Zach was on grill duty

The Egg Hiders

Cayleb, Albert, Whitney, James and JT

I think I see eggs!!!

All our egg hunters

Yes, that's my child jumping the starting gun

And they're off....

Kabree running for the eggs

She found one!

Yes, she ran by 10 running for this particular one

Headed for more

Libby and Katie

Cayleb helping Justice

Morgan

Tiffany, Albert, James, Haylee, Laurie and Darrel

Katie found a real egg

Checking out what's inside

Is Larin sneaking candy??

Wyatt

Mason and Carter

Hanna

 

Mattie

Look what I found when no one was looking

Eric playing with Kabree in the play house

  On Saturday we had a family Easter party, it was the perfect day for the first outside picnic of the year and an Easter egg hunt.  Zach grilled everyone up some hot dogs and there were lots of yummy salads and treats.  Before the party started Cayleb ran in to tell us that we needed to hurry outside and see the new baby.  While Dad, Troy and all the grandkids were sorting horses a mare laid down and had a colt.  The kids were so excited to get to watch and  to see the brand new baby.  Kabree did not understand why she couldn't just walk right up and pet it : ).

  After dinner Heather did a HUGE Easter egg hunt, she had an egg hiding team to help her hide over 400 eggs.  Also take into account the large area the hunt covered.  The eggs ranged from super easy for the little ones to super hard for the older ones.  There were eggs hidden up in trees, on top of trucks, half buried in the ground, you name it.  The kids had a BLAST!  There were 2 golden eggs hidden for special prizes of HUGE chocolate bunnies.  Tiffany and Chase found those, but shared their bunnies with everyone.  Kabree was pretty excited for the eggs, she didn't get it 100% but she knew she wanted to run for them and throw them in her basket.

  It was so fun to see everyone and for the kids to get to run around and play together.  We are so glad Heather did her Easter party this year, we had a ton of fun!

Dying Eater Eggs

 Kabree

 Justice

 Zach

Hanna and Jessi

Kabree didn't know what she thought

about her hands being dyed

Kabree concentrated very hard,

she wanted her eggs to look just right!

They loved the dye

Hanna, working away

  Zach got home early on Friday so I decided since he was there to help we were going to color some eggs.  We first tried coloring warm eggs with crayons, which Hanna and I loved but Justice and Kabree just looked confused : ). First of all the second I handed Justice his egg he threw it on the floor and laughed, then I gave it back to him and he knocked it on the table several times.  So I figured he was trying to tell me he was not interested but when we got out the dye sticks he jumped alive.  Kabree and Justice thought the dye sticks were pretty neat.  They would switch their colors back and forth and concentrate while coloring with them.  They however, did not like that fact that they got dye on their hands : ).  Then we went on to the good old traditional dying of eggs in the cups.  This was ten times the mess than the sticks, I had no idea the second I handed them their eggs they would throw their eggs in, yes throw them in and laugh as it splashes.  Then I had no clue they would try to drink the dye.  It was way crazier then I had anticipated but it was a blast.  The kids were concentrating so hard on decorating their eggs, it was sweet.  They were so funny and all laughs and smiles.

More Arbon Adventures

   Kabree headed to see the horses with Grandpa

 Kabree loved petting their noses

 Kabree wanted to pet a baby horse so bad

but they would never let her get close enough : )

   Kabree loves horses and was very excited when Sunday after church her Grandpa Vance told her he would take her to see the horses after her nap.  As soon as she woke up, she sat up straight and said "Grandpa, horses".  She LOVED walking through all of the mares and seeing the new babies.  She thought it was pretty neat that the horses would sniff her and let her pet their noses.  Kabree loved that they would swarm around her and Grandpa and follow them through the pasture.

 Wow, mud puddles

 Grandma come on, come on!

 See Grandma it's fun!

 Larin coming in for the attack

(can you see Kabree cringing)

 Larin showing Kabree a worm,
she thought it was neat

until she touched it then she threw it back at him

  Morgan look at what I can do

Morgan showing Kabree how it's really done

 Kabree and Morgan jumping together

Our VERY wet Very muddy little Miss

  Kabree loves jumping in puddles and this time of year Grandpa Vances and Grandma JoAnn's yard has LOTS!  Kabree has so much fun when others will come play with her in the water, she was so excited when Grandma and Morgan joined her.  She thought it was great when Morgan would jump with her, she had a blast.  She thought the worm Larin showed her was neat until she touched it and realized it was slimy, then she threw it in the water, so Larin picked it up and handed it to her again, she threw it at him that time and said "no, Larin".