What's In The Basket?

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What's In The Basket?
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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 7:07am

For those of you who celebrate Easter... how are you stuffing the baskets this year? Do you do all candy? no candy? Are chocolate bunnies a must? Or are you a chocolate egg family? Are you doing no candy this year? Do you hide the baskets? or eggs?


I like to do a theme.. corny, I know.

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Registered: 10-31-2006
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 7:25am

No theme here, just stuff.

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Registered: 11-10-2005
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 7:38am

Cool! I would love to see the baskets!! that sounds so cool!!


Oh and Littlest Pet Shop is a huge hit around here too! Roslyn has soo many! She has the big Get Well Center and the Biggest Littlest Pet Shop.

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Registered: 01-18-2007
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 7:53am

I don't do a theme, this year is the first year I have a basket for Emily, she's old enough to know and get excited about the whole thing.

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Registered: 03-17-2005
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 9:49am

Ryland does not eat candy so he isn't getting any.

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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:02am

We always do more toys than candy, but the kids still get a little bit of candy, especially a chocolate bunny! The girls are getting the Easter Barbie, the littlest pet shop set that Target has in their Easter aisle, a little play-doh set that looks like Easter eggs, a little candy, a new Bible, a little Polly Pocket set and I thinks thats about it. Judds basket has an Easter Elmo See-n-Say, a Mr. Potato Head Bunny, Gerber Graduates snacks, a choc bunny, a new outfit and the same play-doh set his sisters are getting. We are going to my Grandma's house on Saturday for an Easter egg hunt and dinner. I spent about $35 per child on their basket, (But the baskets themselves were $7 each). I don't even wanna guess at what I spent on candy to fill all of the eggs that we are taking to my Grandma's house!!!


 

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Registered: 10-20-2005
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:10am

This year the baskets don't have much candy because everyone else gives them so much candy I can't stand them.

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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:16am

This is our first year doing a basket too, Ellie is 16 months old and we've had her at two egg hunts already and she is loving it. No candy in her basket, but I did put a little packet of fudge-striped mini cookies...she has had those before as a treat and she's crazy about them. I did stuffed animals (had to get the giant bunny, heh) and books...and since we just moved to the suburbs, Mama is going to attempt to do a flower garden out front and maybe a mini vegetable garden out back, so I got Ellie little tiny gardening tools in a little matching bag (with matching sunglasses, lol). And she's getting a little tunnel thing that you can crawl through. And a few outfits. Oh and a couple of Melissa and Doug knob puzzles, I love those things. I think that's it...

She's our only one and I admit that we went incredibly overboard, heh. In our defense, DH just finished law school and started working in January and that last leg of time just before he starting working we were REALLY strapped down to our last penny. So Christmas for Ellie this past year was $10 worth of stuff from the dollar store wrapped in tin foil. (and we were 600 miles away from any family, so it's not like we could "go to Gramma's" or anything either) She was too young to know the difference, she loved the shiny foil and she loved her new little board books and ball...it was fine, we had fun anyway. But we just can't help ourselves spoiling her just a little bit now that life is so comfortable for us, we're having such fun with it and we did need to make up for Christmas! So this year it is going to be one generous bunny coming to town, lol.

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DD 16 months

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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:29am

We are going to an Egg Hunt/Easter Festival at church on Saturday.

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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:43am
No theme but basically the same stuff every year. One small toy that they've been wanting (around $10, usually), one stuffed animal (this year I'm doing Build-a-Bear gift cards, though), one book, one video game or DVD, and some candy. We also hide eggs around the house for them to find when they wake up.

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Registered: 07-10-2005
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 10:44am

Wendy - please post a picture of the basket.

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