Fried Chicken on China: our Easter tradition

My family's Easter tradition involves fried chicken and Easter egg hunts.  When I was younger we had big family get-togethers at my great-aunt's house, but later this turned into a picnic in the park.  We'd all bring our favorite sides and desserts and, of course, fried chicken!  (There was a Chicken Express conveniently located just outside the park.)  When all of the kids had grown too old for egg hunts this kind of fell apart, so now we usually host our side of the family at our house.  This year my grandmother wanted to have fried chicken from the place we used to get it and she also asked (jokingly) if we were going to have an egg hunt.  Well, we had both.

We have a six person formal dining table and a four person breakfast table...and eight people coming to lunch.  At 11:40am, 20 minutes before our lunch was supposed to start, my husband decided to move all of the furniture in our great room and bring in the tables and chairs from the two eating areas.  While I admit it worked in the end, the timing was not what I had in mind!

After a lunch of chicken, casseroles, and carrot-raisin salad, we had the indoor egg hunt:  22 eggs plus one prize egg!  

Everyone got in on the hunt.

Dingo's always ready to help, especially if there's food involved.

My grandmother spotted a whole bowl of eggs (the chocolate kind).

Is there something down there?

She's on a roll!

I guess she found so many she needed something to hold them all!

The definition of "egg" quickly became expanded.

The winning team (I think it's because he was the tallest so he could reach the high stuff!):

Mom played the Easter bunny:

Here are a few other Easter decor pics from around the house:

DIY egg garland (string cheap plastic eggs on some yarn)

Easter mantle:

More egg garland:

Pretty spring flowers:

Happy Easter!

Adi