the great "eggs"perience!!!

and before you all think i am the clever one that came up with "eggs"perience, i have to tell you that our co-pastor at church was the inventor of that one! so today we went to "eggs"perience at our church. last night we went and helped set up, so we were prepared for the goings on of today! and thank goodness for that! let me give you a mental picture of our church for those of you who don't know. our church is not one of those churches with 3000 members, oh no, our church has probably about 150-200 regular attenders. so our facility is not huge, but into our church was crammed 3 inflatable bounce houses w/slides, and 1 bounce house maze in the parking lot, a magic show, face painting, a cafe, preschool area for hunts and preschool sized activities, and a big kid area for an egg hunt. okay now add to that at any given time 400+ kids, parents, volunteers and you have one crowded area!!! but even with that we had a blast!! gabe brought one of his friends, charlie, with him and one of grady's friends, josiah, came with his parents, carla and dustin lee. grady and josiah hung pretty close to the preschool size bounce house and slide and egg hunt area. they had egg hunts every 15 minutes, and i'm pretty sure those two made it to each one. they could now even be considered "professional egg hunters" at the age of 2! the "big kids", gabe and charlie, had a blast on the slides, and i think we could have left them there all day and they would not have minded, but we had come for an egg hunt and egg hunting we were going. so dad stood in line for the magic show and egg hunt and gave me a call when he was at the front of the line. so the 2 big boys and i rushed for our turn in the magic show and hunt. yes, there was a line and you waited your turn, that gives you an idea of the amount of people this drew in! the big kids also had egg hunts every 15 minutes, but the line was so long, one hunt was all they did! the magic show was pretty basic, but the egg hunt was something else. a little insight before the hunt story, last night shawn and my job was to put down plastic on the floor of this huge room. now you are wondering, "why would you need plastic down on the floor for an egg hunt?" well here in seattle as you are all aware you cannot count on it not raining on an easter egg hunt, so the creators of "eggs"perience thought of the idea of putting down packing peanuts, yes, i said packing peanuts, to hide the eggs in. the idea of the plastic was to keep the peanuts from being totally crushed into the floor and for hopefully an easier clean up!! so now it is time for me to set my big boys loose on the packing peanuts along with about 30-40 other kids!! can you say MESS!! the kids and parents were completely covered with peanuts. i disliked packing peanuts before, i can now safely say that the dislike feeling has escalated! but the kids had fun, and that was the goal! after the egg hunt we headed to red robin with the lee family. we had a scrumptious and filling supper! we then brought home our two zombie children, who were asleep about 10 minutes after walking in the door. but ask them and "no, we're not tired!"