Our next adventure for the day was to go to Young Living’s Eggstravaganza. Egg hunt and spring festival in one.Natalie found the most adorable baby Clydesdale as soon as we made it through the gates. Their horses were gorgeous!!! Lucy was amazed to see a horse actually nurse. Mana horse was getting a bit nervous with her squealing excitement, so we moved on to another horse to give her and baby a human break.Then Lucy caught sight of the Easter Bunny.I still can figure out how he became a figure for Easter, but she really wanted a picture with him.The kids went through the town buildings, and even found the jail. Lucy wanted no part of it, since William has been telling her about bad guys getting locked up in jail. She had no issues with locking her siblings in there however.Outside the bank building was a very serious Indian. I told Natalie and Alex to stand there and be serious.That didn’t last long at all!We found the baby animal barn on the way to the bounce houses and rock walls. Natalie sure is a natural with animals. Lucy still has a bit to learn, but she loves to try and hold EVERYTHING!While Lucy jumped, the big kids went to climb. Natalie challenged William to a race. He had no chance, poor guy, with his 11 1/2 size feet! He couldn’t get any traction to climb.Alex didn’t make it very far either, but tried really hard. Next was the egg hunt. Again, Lucy couldn’t control her excitement, and kept trying to run out and grab eggs before the whistle. A cabbage butterfly flew by and I gave her permission to chase it, as long as she didn’t touch any eggs, while we waited. That brought out the biggest smile.Finally, the hunt began. This time, Lucy was very concerned about not going over her limit and kept counting her eggs over and over again. She was all smiles when it was over. Mission egg hunt= complete success!We then went to get lunch. On the way, we found a stream. It took everything out of us to keep Lucy OUT of the water! She was ready to just get right in!We found the castle and tried to get a picture of the kids. Yeah, three year old on mega Easter candy does not make for a good picture! The conversation went something like this, Mom- “Okay guys. Stand under the arch for a quick picture. Lucy, look at Mom.”

Natalie-“Wait! Where are you going?! What is she doing?!?!”

Natalie-“Okay. Nevermind.”

Yeah nevermind. I should have known it wasn’t going to work out. At least the big kids can cooperate. Then we tried to take pictures at the thrones. Miss Center-of-Attention was fine until the boys came into the picture. Poor Alex and William. Alex waited until everyone got distracted and came back for his picture. He is so patient.Natalie was super sweet and got a picture of Mom and Dad. We are hardly ever in the pictures. We need to change that. The kids found the barrel swing. It was super heavy to push, but lots of fun. Lucy insisted on me talking a picture of her with these eggs. The display was so flimsy and kept falling over, but she was not satisfied until she could see herself with these. Yes, in the mega bright midday sun too. Our last activity for the day was the jousting tournament at the castle. It was a fabulous event, complete with jugglers, sword throwers, fire blowers, bag pipers, horse and carriages, fairies, stilt walkers, and the royal courts.We didn’t get pictures during the joust because we were too into the action. Our night, Sir Shawn, won the main tournament, but was challenged by the female night, who then beat him in the final challenge. Lucy got a rose from Sir Shawn at the end. It was a fabulous end to a fabulous day! Everyone should sleep great after all the walking and playing. Hopefully no one ends up with a sunburn.