Eggs, Eggs, Everywhere There's ... Well you know

Our church, the church that Julie works for, had last year and is again this year celebrating Easter at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.  For those of you reading this from outside of the area, Verizon is a outdoor concert venue that holds approximately 18,000 people. 

One of the activities is a huge Easter egg hunt.  Well not really a hunt, but a scramble (excuse the egg pun), to collect as many eggs as you can in a cordoned off section of the lawn at Verizon.  Julie's job today was to count the eggs left over from last year to know how many items she needs so she is able to stuff all of the eggs.  So, the Z's and I went to help.  We were set up in the infant room at the church

Now, all in all, there will be about 7,000 eggs used for the event.  The share we were working with ended up being 1,190.  It is amazing how a task like that so brings out the personalities of everyone involved.

I wanted to make sure the color of the top of the egg matched its bottom.  I also was fighting the urge to sort top and bottoms first to make the whole process more orderly.

Julie, did not care if they matched and thought the mismatched eggs were more fun.

Zoe was quietly loading up bags with finished eggs, occasionally commenting about a pretty one.

Zach was talking non-stop ... about the best way to divide the labor ... occasionally yelling at Zoe or Zane because they were doing it "wrong" ... obsessing over the final count of eggs ... etc.

Zadie ... slept.

Zane ... well ... Zane kept getting stuck in an exersaucer ... and a crib ... oh and at one point he pretended to be one of those Russian ice breakers boring through the Bering straight.  He was the ice breaker and the ice was a huge pile of eggs.  As you can imagine this didn't make big brother very happy.

The job was done, we had fun, we all worked together (well almost all of us ... Zane) and we learned something about ourselves.  We can all be so different.  But if we take what makes us all different and combine it together, we can accomplish almost anything.  We are starting to see what it means to be a large family.