Here are Rhiannon, Sofie and Sofia -- the Barnehage Brigade. As soon as Rhiannon found a single chocolate Easter bunny, she didn't care about anything else. She just clung tight to the bunny and savored each little nibble until it was all gone. It is barely visible in her paws below.
Grandpa Carl hid the colored eggs and lots of other foil-wrapped chocolate goodies that they brought especially from the USA for the event. Grandma Debi spent hours last night turning strawberry baskets (again from the USA) into Easter baskets with braided handles for each child to have. As our guest list grew and grew, she had to keep building Easter baskets! Our final head count was 25 adults and 20 kids (not counting babies). Here are (l to r): Snorre, Rhodri (with the cowboy hat), Phil, Beate (with the braids), Michael, Jamie and Solveig enjoying some Aquavit poured from our special ice basket*.
Egg hunting in action, with the Minx in the lower right corner. We had a little snack corner with pølser and lomper (hot dogs in tortilla-like things), chips and guacamole, coffee and aquavit (in the aforementioned ice basket).
Then when all the eggs were found (Bentley found more than his fair share of the hard-boiled eggs!), we went back into the house for more snacks and playing. Great-Grandma Linda sent a dancing chicken (who sings with his beak moving and flaps his wings to "The Chicken Song") which proved to be a huge hit with all the kids!
Then everyone started getting tired and so lounged on the couch to watch some Thomas-the-Tank-Engine cartoons. Here are (l to r): Hattie, Victor, Charlie, David, Joseph, Sofia, Per, Rhiannon and Victoria.
* = We froze a bottle of Aquavit inside a bucket of water filled with daffodils and heather and then took the plastic bucket away to reveal flowers frozen in ice surrounding the bottle. I got this idea from my Aunt Elizabeth many years ago.
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What a party!! So funny to see how different our parties were. But you still had a picnic table! That rocks :)
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