Scene: Interior of house, mom and dad’s bedroom, 5am Sunday morning. The sun is just coming in the windows. All is quiet when, entering via the bedroom door, a boy of about 6 years bounds in with a happy and expectant face:

Logan (6 year old boy): “Happy Easter! Is it time to hunt for eggs yet?!”

Mom (glancing through 1/2 open eyes at the clock on her bedside table): “Um…hu? What time is it…5!? No honey…it’s still too early” (rolling over to her husband) “it’s like Christmas morning all over again” (to son…in a very groggy voice) “come in and cuddle with us for a while baby…it’s too early to go downstairs right now.”

The boy walks, with slumped shoulders and a deflated sense of excitement, over to dad’s side of the bed where he climbs in and lays restlessly as the clock slowly moves from 5 – 5:30. The boys then sits up and announces:

Logan: “I’m going back to my room now”

Mom: “do you mean to your bed? to sleep more?”

Dad: “don’t wake up your brothers”

Logan: “I won’t”

close up of clock as the minutes tick by from 5:30 to 5:45. Entering the scene via the bedroom door, we see Logan and his two younger brothers.

All three: “Happy Easter!” and “Can we go downstairs yet?”

Logan (with look of innocence, wonder, and the slightly sheepish grin of ‘I’m lying right now’): “I guess I was talking too loud because they woke up!”

Close up of mom with a look on her face that speaks to the thought of, “talking too loud? probably more like shaking them, jumping on their beds and saying ‘get up it’s Easter!’”

Cut to Dad exiting the bed and leaving the room.

Dad: “hang on guys, I have to go find the video camera”

Cut back to mom, exiting bed and shutting the door to keep the excited trio of little men from escaping before this precious moment can be caught on film.

Boys (who are currently being held hostage while mom finds a sweater, quickly brushes her teeth and shoves contacts into her eyes): “can we go? can we go?”

Dad (shouting from the hallway): “OK boys – come on out!”

Shot of boys running excitedly down the hall. Dad is poised near the stairs with the video camera while mom trails after them shooting with the still camera that she placed beside her bed the night before in anticipation of just such a moment.

Dad (to mom in a whisper as they crouch at the top of the stairs, video camera running, while the boys empty the Easter baskets which were waiting on the landing): “Tell Logan to go put on something besides just his underwear!”

End scene.

The boys with their baskets before the hunt. Logan is holding what’s left of his bunny…maybe just it’s end. Speaking of, Aiden had the most genius move all day: he bit the booty off his bunny and stuffed it with other candy…pretty funny.

Brady on the hunt (thing on head = rug burn from his time at Bouncetown last Friday…I think he had a run-in with one of the giant inflatables).

Logan’s Happy Easter drawing

At Meemaw and Grandpa’s house for a late brunch: Our usual attempt to get a picture of all the boys. This inflatable is in the next-door neighbor’s yard, but we had clearance to invade and photograph :)

Not bad!

Being the mother of 3 boys and the Grandmother of 7, Meemaw made sure that her house was fully stocked with nerf guns. The boys chased each other around the front and posed for a picture.

Easter egg hunting time! All 6 participants had a specific color of egg to hunt for themselves. Colors were determined in the fairest way possible…drawn blindly out of a bucket. Logan actually got green, Aiden was yellow and Brady was orange.

Happiness is hunting for hidden candy!