isabelle of the ball: Hunting Season

Easter is much later than usual this year. Often by mid-April, we've already painted eggs, decorated the house and searched the premises and the outdoors for all kinds of chocolate eggs. Usually by now, we are digging into the candy stash after dinner each night. Well this year it's not for a few weeks and since we need to be well prepared to search for eggs on the beach, we went out this weekend and got a practice round in! On a beautiful, we headed out to Stanley's Farm, a sugar bush operations just south of Ottawa, where we got the chance to hunt for eggs and have a great afternoon enjoying the farm and its many animals. Logan, Brooklyn and Kaitlyn joined us for the fun. We all piled onto some hay bales and a big tractor (Oliver was thrilled!) pulled us into the bush to hunt for eggs, which was a madhouse with other kids having the exact same goal. Luckily, there were more than enough eggs for big and little kids to get their share. After we finished, every kid got a bag of treats and we went back to the barn, where Oliver was beyond excited. He got to see horses, goats, cows, turkeys, even a huge pig. Getting him out of the barn to visit the playground was not an easy task! The five kids had an awesome time checking everything out and enjoying the wide open spaces. After an awesome treat of taffy on the snow, we called it a day and considered ourselves officially ready for Easter. Can we expect a repeat of last year with Oliver? Bet on it.

Enough instructions, let us at those eggs!