Ridiculous...

and never again!

Today Ava and I joined our neighbors, Shayne, Kristi, Joshua, and Noah at the Victory Family Church's Easter Egg'stravaganza just up the road. We missed our (Discovery's) Egg'stravaganza last week due to a birthday party and the fact that Ava fell asleep on the car on the way, so we thought this might be fun to try. It is absolutely beautiful here today, maybe a little on the hot side (our car was reading 86 degrees) and everybody and their brother was at this event. It was RIDICULOUS!

We had to park down the road at the auto auction place and be shuttled up to the church. We all got separated when a nice lady wouldn't allow me on the comfy shuttle bus :o). So Ava and I (along with our stroller) took a school bus with the "older" kids. It wasn't too bad and the drive was only about 5 or 10 minutes. We eventually met up at the church entrance. From the outside it looked pretty calm, but the minute the doors opened, my goodness! There were kids everywhere, screaming, yelling, crying, laughing, running, etc. We decided to head over and get a balloon first, that line wasn't too long.

standing in line

watching Cindy make Ava's flower balloon

the flower

our child who puts EVERYTHING in her mouth - luckily it didn't pop

Ava deciding she liked Joshua's "Monkey in a tree"

balloon better.... should have know.

After we all got our balloons, it was almost 12:30 pm (we left our houses at 11am, and its less than 3 miles away). We headed outside to give the kids something to eat, although they weren't too interested in eating. Ava, who loves PB&J took one bite and didn't want any more. Gummies (fruit snacks) won out. It didn't feel like longer than 2 minutes and they were announcing that that 0-3yr old Egg Hunt was about to begin. We packed up and rushed over to the roped off area and waited. It was essentially a 50'x50' square with eggs laying on the ground. Once the hunt started Ava wasn't too sure about picking up eggs... that was until she realized candy was in side.

But then of course, she picked up one and didn't want to pick up any other until she had eaten the candy. After much coaxing, she started to grab a few others. Poor Joshua didn't like the candy inside (the fruit flavored tootsie rolls) so we scrambled to dig candy out of the goodie bags we were given.

darn egg won't open

It was shortly after this that we were actually "told" to leave the egg hunt area.... it was kind of rude. Not sure why this happened, there were others still out there as well. All in all, I think Ava enjoyed hunting, err... picking up eggs.

After the Egg hunt we thought we'd go back inside and see a puppet show before the kids completely melted down... plus it was much cooler inside. On the way, we had to make a pit stop and see a friend.

ELMO!

Joshua like Oscar better

After seeing the line for the puppet show and realizing it was 1:30 we decided it would be a smarter idea just to head home. Plus we wanted to skip the mad rush to the parking lot - the event ended at 2pm.

waiting on the shuttle

Kristi laughed when I told her the title of my blog would be "ridiculous." Then she added "and never again!" (so thanks to Kristi for helping me with that one.)

Overall, it was an experience I'll never forget, that's for sure. And I do think the kids had fun. Ava fell asleep in the car on the way home, and.... oh, I think she just woke up, a good 2.5 hours later.

Hopefully we'll get to do our own Easter Egg Hunt tonight in our yard. Maybe it will be better this way, and Joshua is sure to like the candy we used.

Happy Easter!