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Videos From The Easter Egg Hunt 2025

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These videos are sorta wonky due to the inexpertise of the camerawoman!  Click on the first video twice and it will enlarge and play, but at its end, Youtube will take you to a screen with a bunch of other Youtube videos on it.  Just double click on it and then double click on the next egg hunting screen on my blog and the same thing will happen all the way through. Wish I knew editing so I could edit them all together and also take the shots of my feet walking along in pursuit out of the one video. Perhaps one of these years I’ll learn how to do so. In the meantime, if you have patience, go ahead and try to watch these frenzied little videos.  Happy Easter!!! And thanks to Forgottenman for all his patience in getting these videos from Youtube to you.

 

You can see more still photos of the hunt HERE and HERE.

Easter Egg Hunt (Post #2)

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Here’s a girl who loves to pose for photos..and her brother and sister and Mom. Isidro’s daughter Paloma and his grandkids.
Alejandra, Yolanda’s niece and her children.
Isidro and grandaughters.
Santiago, Yolanda’s grandson.
Yoli hanging from the Plumeria tree.
Our smallest searcher. Alejandra’s son.
Trying out the rubber duckies.
Isidro and grandkids.
Paloma, Isidro’s daugher
Juan Pablo, Yolanda’s son and his son Santiago.
Isidro and granddaughter.
Alejandra’s daughter and Juan Pablo’s son. Juan Pablo is Yolanda’s son.
Playing with the rubber duckies that were in their Easter bags.
Isidro’s granddaughters.
Santiago. He now likes me! When he was a baby, he was frightened of me. Last Easter cured that.
Yoli.
Checking out her stash.
Juan Pablo.
The hauteur of the artist!
Isidro immortalized. This is a reproduction of a self-portrait he painted rendered as a tattoo done by his son Wayan. Paloma’s arm is the canvas.
Alejandra and Jose
Marie Jose, Alejandra’s sister. She and Yoli and Alejandra and Yoli’s stepsister Carmen are my English students. Earlier this year, I published photos of Alejandra’s wedding.
Yoli, Juan Pablo, Ellie: sister, brother, wife.
Part of Yolanda’s family.
Eggs sorted and bagged and ready for next year.

This is only about 1/3 of the photos I took. Can’t resist showing them. I have movies of the egg hunt I’ll publish in another blog. The kids will enjoy seeing their photos. We had so much fun.  The adults are Isidro, one of the first friends I made when I came to Mexico. He is an amazing artist.  The tattoo is actually of a painting he did of himself. His son Wayan tattooed it onto his sister Paloma’s arm!  The children around her and Isidro are her and her sister’s. Isidro has 6 grandchildren who are all in these photos.  The youngest searcher is Alejandra’s baby. She is the niece of Yolanda(my housekeepr and friend of 24 years) and I first knew her as a student in the kid’s camp I used to assist with. Paloma, Isidro’s daughter and mom of four of his grandchildren, I knew as a small girl. She won an art competition I sponsored for kids to make posters to encourage people to clean up the lake..So I’ve made it through one generation in Mexico.

I’m going to post this. I’ll post a link to the videos later if you haven’t had your fill of Easter revelries. They are not professional level videos, as a matter of fact the last one I mistakenly recorded in slow motion .  I don’t even know how to do that! It did it itself.  I kind of like the effect, though.  At any rate, here are the stills.

Half Hour to Go Until the Easter Egg Hunt!!!! (Easter #1)

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In one half hour ten children and parents will descend on my yard for an Easter Egg hunt. Yoli and Marie Jose came to help me hide the eggs–110 in all. The dogs are at the neighbors, the Easter Egg hunters’ pretty bags with one egg the color and pattern of the ones they have to find, two rubber duckies and a plastic bag of gummy worms await their selection and then the hunt is on!!!

I filled 144 eggs a few days ago, then painted to make each group distinctive.
Filled with candy and games.
A bag for each child.
One egg, two rubber duckies and a bag of gummy worms in each sack.
Different pattern and color of eggs hidden for each child.
Their egg in front of their bag to show them what color and design to look for.
Different color or pattern of eggs hidden for each child.
So all come out even
Same number of eggs with same things insideper child.
Easter Bunny’s Helpers. Yoli and Marie Jose
Easter Bunny and Friends.

More to follow !!!!!

Final Easter Egg Hunt, 2024

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Click on photos to enlarge.

The egg hunters this time were Isidro’s six grandchildren. For first-time Easter Egg hunters, they did a fine job of it, finding all but one egg which is still hiding somewhere in my friend Rita’s yard. She provided the beautifully decorated cookies. Please enlarge at least that photo so you can see the amazing butterfly carved into its icing. That’s Isidro (the friend who illustrates my books) next to the cookie, and next to him, all his grandkids and their moms, one of whom (Paloma) was a very small girl when I moved here 23 years ago. She was the winner in a “Clean up the Lake” poster contest I had for kids way back then. I guess that dates me.  The last two photos are of friends Rita and Jere. Rita provided the cookies and the beautiful garden to use for the event. Jere helped me hide the eggs and provided juice boxes for the kids.  I was the Easter Bunny, providing the filled eggs. My neighbor David made all the darling signs scattered around the yard. This may become a yearly event. (P.S. The kids all decorated their own egg cartons to use in collecting the eggs.)

 

Santiago’s First Easter Egg Hunt, 2024

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As always, click on any photo to enlarge all photos and to see them as a slide series.

Easter Egg hunts are unheard of in Mexico, so I have taken it on as my duty to introduce the practice to two generations of Yolanda’s family. Santiago, her first grandchild, has not wanted to have anything to do with me during encounters over the past two years, but for some reason that ended today with his crawling up into my lap, seeking shelter between my legs when the doggies got too enthusiastic, and even giving me a good-bye kiss. I’m in heaven!

I ended up hiding 20 eggs and Santiago only found 15 with his auntie’s help. I told the big kids (his uncles, 14,17 and 19) to go out and look for the missing 5 and they found all but one. Hopefully, I’ll find it before next Easter. When he discovered I was having two Easter Egg hunts for kids, my wonderful neighbors David and Sergio contributed extra eggs to fill plus these decorations made by David.

We had so much fun. They were here for 2 hours. Santiago took to the search much more than I thought he would and he was delighted with the big clear egg with handle I gave him to put all his eggs into to take home. His three uncles, one aunt and mommy came. All the aunts and uncles are teenagers.

After the hunt and drinks and snacks at the dining room table, we went out to play with the dogs. Santiago, who has discovered the delight of speech and discovers he is quite good at it, kept saying ‘Water! Water! Water!” He was intrigued by the pool but when I asked if he wanted to put his feet in it, he kept saying no. Finally, we took his shoes and socks off and he discovered he enjoyed soaking his feet a lot. As a matter of fact, the last picture occurred when his mom said he had to take his feet out of the water to go home!!!

I love what I consider to be my Mexican family and Emilia has added not one but five wonderful new members to it. One more Easter Egg hunt to go. I’ll take more photos.

Happy Easter, everyone.

Easter Hunts

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Easter Hunts

My toy cannon muffled by an egg stuffed in its snout.
Easter grass and sugar eggs hidden inside and out.
My parents’ Easter soirees were things of grand design.
The pink nests were sister’s and the yellow ones were mine.
One disappeared behind the mirror, one behind father’s chair.
At the end, still one nest to be found, I knew not where.
Suckers, Peeps and sugar eggs, jelly beans and gummies—
sought out and stuffed in Easter baskets, then stuffed in our tummies.
My folks went to such bother, whereas I must say in truth, 
If I’d been asked, I’d rather have just had a Baby Ruth!

 

Prompt words this Easter Sunday are truth, soiree, disappear, cannon and mirror. (You didn’t make it east this time, folks!)

Easter Morning Confession

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Easter Morning Confession

“What’s all this hoopla over eggs
and animals with furry legs?”
My father chortled every year,
just loud enough for us to hear
while we lay scheming in our beds,
visions of rabbits in our heads
and candy eggs and chocolate,
wondering just where and what
we’d be hunting in the morning,
when, early and with no warning
we’d descend the long back stair
the earliest that we could dare
and set upon the living room
in the early morning gloom
to satiate that yearly lust.
We must have chocolate. We must!

Year after year, we slipped our gaskets
seeking to fill up our baskets.
Even now, that longing swells
when I hear those Easter bells.
So many years since I, a seedling,
commenced my yearly candy wheedling.

How many days, how many nights
did we anticipate delights 
well into our lower teens
of  Peeps and eggs and jelly beans.
and, best of all, that chocolate rabbit
became our yearly Easter habit.
Sitting regally on its ass
amidst the bright green Easter grass
in the baskets overflowing
with our coming and our going,
searching out that Easter stash
of candy, chocolate and cash.
A dollar hidden in one nest
was the very very best
find of the whole Easter season,
and in fact it was the reason
why Easter Sunday was the best—
our favorite of all the rest.

Later, to church, to sing and pray,
remembering just why this day
was celebrated, though I fear
that for us, year after year
there were more than one or two
kids sequestered in a pew
who were not thinking of the prayer,
but of layer upon layer
of goodies that awaited them
in baskets filled up to the brim.
For, though our hearts were pure and pious,
they could not dispel the bias
of a child’s rumbling gut
yearning for more chocolate!! 

The prompt today are egg, hoopla, seedling and longing. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/rdp-saturday-egg/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/04/20/fowc-with-fandango-hoopla/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/your-daily-word-prompt-seedling-april-20-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/longing/

Easter at Audrey’s

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Audrey’s Easter bash included confetti Easter eggs (to be broken over the head of whomever was closest when you found it) hidden in her lush garden in addition to a personal egg for each attendee with his/her name written on it and five special eggs that earned prizes, music, a ham and scalloped potato buffet, birthday cake and plenty of wine in addition to  surprise Mariachis who serenaded us for 15 minutes before we started questioning each other regarding who had arranged for them and determined that no one had and that they were at the wrong party.  (In fact, when I call the number they gave for the “right” party it turns out it had been cancelled and that they just hadn’t received the message.)  No problem. We passed the hat and they were happy, as were we.  The birthday girl was as ecstatic over their rendition of the Mexican birthday song, “Las Mananitas” as she was over the birthday cake. All in all, a great party, great company, great music.  There are lots of pictures below, so please click on the first one and it will enlarge them all.  Click each arrow at the right of the screen to proceed through the photos.  To return to this page, click on the X on the upper left of the screen.

(Click on photos to enlarge.)