Cody's 4th Annual Easter Egg Hunt 3-14-2010

This year I had to plan Cody's Easter Egg Hunt early since Easter is the day after Derek's 16th birthday and Cody has soccer every Saturday until then.  So we decided to hold it three weeks before Easter.  Forecast was not so promising.  Wind, rain, and more rain was in store.  Was I nervous?  Kind of BUT it seems every year we hit some kind of wind, rain, snow or mud obsticle, and through it all, the kids had fun, so it really didn't bother me too much.  The temperature was supposed to stay around 50 so that was good.  Well as Sunday got closer, so did the rain.  Saturday we got rained out for the most part.  Sunday we woke up to rain and wind, just like the forecast stated.  But that wasn't going to stop me.  By noon the rain stopped (it was only light before then), so to the park I went to hide 548 eggs.  Yes, you read right---548 eggs filled with candy and goodies.  By the time 1 pm hit, all the eggs were hidden and the kids started coming.  Cody was soooo excited he couldn't wait to see all his old friends from Solvay and his good buddy, Cameron.  His smile was so HUGE as each child got dropped off.  We waited until 1:15 to make sure all the kids were there and we did the countdown and they were off!!  Kids were scrambling everywhere picking up eggs and trying to find the gold and silver eggs that could be traded in for prizes.  Cody's buddy, Tyler, found two silver eggs.  His sweet little girlfriend, Kyra, found the gold egg, and my little man, Cody found the last silver egg.  YIPPEE! The best part for the parents is that almost as soon as I said "GO", the sun came out for almost the whole time we were egg hunting.....SUPER!!  It was a great time!  I believe that all the kids had a super time and it makes my day to see them all having so much fun!  I loved watching Cody play with the kids....I loved watching the kids play with Cody.....Can't wait until next year!!