Easter Egg Hunts

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. There’s a wonderful reason to celebrate and be thankful, that Jesus died for our sins and rose again! I love eating a nice Easter dinner, going to church and spending time with my family. I also love participating in Easter egg hunts because of the small prizes and money that is available to find. Every year my parents always give my brothers and I a cute little Easter basket as well. This year I was involved in two egg hunts. For one, I hid the eggs and for the other I found them.

I am a peer mentor for the Dicke College of Business and this year I was tasked with hiding the eggs for our annual Easter egg hunt. They were all filled with small goodies such as candy and stress relief toys. I hid some in bushes, trees, flowers, by electrical outlets and even buried some in dirt and mulch so that only a small part was visible. Here’s one of my favorite hiding spots:

We eventually gave up finding good spots to hide all the eggs (there were a lot) and scattered them all over the lawn. The egg hunt happened relatively quickly but there were a couple of eggs that I hid which didn’t get found at all. One that I was proud of was right by the building mostly buried in mulch.

The second egg hunt I was involved in happened at my boyfriend’s house. Each year his mom hides a bunch of similar eggs, and we receive a list of each we have to find. The categories this year were pink, blue, green, orange, yellow, purple, metallic, glittery, polka dotted, striped and there was only one golden egg. We could only take one out of each category even if we found multiple. I was sadly not the winner, but I was able to find all of my required eggs. Then the hard part began, trying to find the golden egg. We were digging around in the woods behind the house and couldn’t find anything! Finally, my boyfriend’s dad had to hint that it may not be visible yet and we might want to grab some shovels. We located the spot by playing the classic game of “hot or cold” and started poking the ground. Suddenly AJ (my boyfriend’s brother-in-law) started digging at the ground with his hands and emerged victorious with the golden egg (which had $40 in it)! Apparently next year I need to be quicker. We got little prizes such as candy, bottle openers, magnets, socks and much more. This was my first year participating in their Easter celebrations and I plan to come back next year!