Happy Easter 2012

Our Easter hunt began late this morning despite Darcy's 7:00 AM attempt to get the rest of the house up and at 'em.  Usually the girls' Easter baskets are on the kitchen table at their places, but this morning only two puzzle boxes and two eggs awaited them.  The back of the puzzle box read:  Happy Hunting!

And they began the hunt.  Three rooms held plenty of eggs.

Some not so hard to spot!  The eggs had a "D" for Darcy and an "M" for Madison so if Maddy found a "D" egg she quickly put it back for her sister to find.  The eggs also had numbers on them which the girls figured out had to do with the number of eggs hidden and the puzzle pieces.

Elliot helped out Madison in her hunting.  He turned out to be a great Easter egg hunter!

Only problem was he was also a great Easter egg cracker as well.  Each egg contained puzzle pieces and a variety of chocolate candy.  We had to do some intervening on the chocolate.

Darcy collected all her eggs first.  She then helped her sister who was missing six eggs.  It turned out to be quite a hunt for those six eggs.

Eventually we all had to get involved.  I'm not bragging when I say I found most of the six eggs, including the last one.  Once the eggs were all found the girls got down to opening them and assembling the puzzles...which turned out to be hologram puzzles!  That meant that the puzzles had two different pictures on them depending how you turned the piece. 

The challenge was on to solve the puzzles.  Darcy had her mother help her, but she didn't really need it.  Madison worked alone on her Fancy Nancy 100 piece puzzle.

Darcy and I finished first and Darcy began the task of flipping the puzzle over.  The girls realized early on that a message was printed on the back of the puzzle that would lead them to something grand!

 Darcy's Fancy Nancy completed puzzle looking at it one way...

And looking at it the other way!  The butterflies were the main challenge in the puzzle as were the shoes and the hair/hat.

 The back of Darcy's puzzle said...

And when she did what she was told she finally found her Easter basket complete with bunny and peeps!

Madison finished her puzzle not long after her sister and began the process of flipping it over

The pieces held quite nicely and the message was loud and clear...

And when she too followed the instructions...

She was rewarded with an Easter basket as well!

 Madison's Fancy Nancy puzzle completed looking at it one way...

And the other way...  The puzzles were cute ones and certainly a challenge.

But in the end the rewards were worth it!  Happy Easter to everyone!